How Four Hands Cut Truck Unloading Time by 75%

Four Hands was drowning in their own success. The Texas-based furniture wholesaler had six warehouses constantly shuffling inventory, but every truck transfer required up to 13 people spending two hours hand-loading everything from pillows to marble coffee tables. 

The process was brutal, expensive, and getting worse as they grew.

Then they discovered SlipRobotics at a trade show. Six months later, they went from 13-person loading crews to single-person, 5-minute truck loads using autonomous robots that required no Wi-Fi, no system integrations, and no facility modifications. Slip deployed 15 robots across multiple facilities, increasing throughput by 4x.

This case study breaks down exactly how they identified, evaluated, and implemented drop-in robots without ripping apart their existing workflows.

Let’s dive in.

What’s Inside

• The Scene → Growth meant more complexity, not more profit

• The Discovery → A chance encounter at MODEX changed everything

• The Fix → Drop-in automation that worked with existing workflows

• The Implementation → Six months from first contact to full deployment

• The Results → Massive labor savings and operational improvements

• The Playbook → What you can learn from this project

• Full Q&A → With Mason Cole from SlipRobotics