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EP. IV DURBAN · ZA — : —
A NEW VISION · 04 MAY 2026

These are
the droids
you're looking for.

The future of warehouse and stock management isn't a bigger drone or a louder WMS. It's our Hive Chip, embedded into any commodity robot, turning it into a Scanman-native warehouse citizen on day one.

Reveal
04 May 2026
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INBOUND
Day 01 / 07 The dossier opens, one transmission at a time.
Episode IV — A New Vision
Scanman

It is a period of rising costs. Warehouses across the galaxy are choosing between dangerous manual stocktakes and bespoke robots they cannot afford.

Meanwhile, in the factories of Shenzhen, an army of capable, commodity droids stands ready — but speaks no warehouse language.

From a small base in Durban, three rebel companies have engineered a single chip that turns any of them into the warehouse worker the galaxy needs....

001 / 003 The new fleet

Any robot.
One brain.

The three droids aren't ours. They're already on shelves in Shenzhen, priced like consumer hardware. We give them a warehouse soul: scan logic, WMS integrations, agent-ready event contracts. Snap-in, fly out the warehouse door.

UNIT 01AERIAL
Aerial
SKU · WING-CLASS

High-bay barcode capture from off-the-shelf airframes. Reads the racks humans shouldn't be climbing — at a fraction of bespoke-drone cost.

Reach14 m
Setup10 min
UNIT 02GROUND
Ground
SKU · PAW-CLASS

Quadrupeds for yards, ports, mines and cold stores. Where flight is restricted, four legs and a Hive Chip walk the count instead.

TerrainAll weather
Runtime2.5 hr
UNIT 03AISLE
Aisle
SKU · WHEEL-CLASS

Autonomous mobile robots running cycle counts at aisle speed. Mast-mounted scan stack, pallet-level read, full WMS reconciliation in flight.

Aisle1.5 m wide
Read rate~140/hr
HIVE SECURE BOOT OTA SIGNED
002 / 003 The chip

It's not the droid.
It's what's inside.

The Hive Chip is a small board, snapped into a commodity robot's payload bay, that contains seven years of warehouse domain logic: scan validation, putaway rules, cycle-count math, and direct integrations into SAP, Sage, Syspro, ERPNext. The robot is hardware. The chip is the business.

  • 01
    Snap-in, not bolt-on.Same payload bay as a vendor's reference camera. No OEM redesign required.
  • 02
    Speaks every WMS.SAP EWM, Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Sage, Syspro, ERPNext. Translation lives on the chip.
  • 03
    Agent-ready out of the box.Every scan, count and variance is an event your operations team can ask questions of.
  • 04
    Signed firmware. OTA forever.Secure boot, revocable keys, monthly capability drops — never a forklift upgrade again.
003 / 003 The order of things

Three rebels.
One alliance.

Building this alone was never the plan. Scanman brings the WMS soul. DroneScan brings the capture IP and a decade of brand. 2nth.ai builds the platform, the firmware, and the agents. Three companies, one chip.

01 · WMS DOMAIN
Scanman
The brain
Seven years of stocktake, putaway and reconciliation logic. Integrations into every WMS that matters. The reason a chip in a Chinese drone speaks fluent warehouse.
02 · CAPTURE IP
DroneScan
The eyes
Hummingbird, Buffalo, Meerkat. Patented aerial-counting algorithms, RFID payloads, and a decade of warehouses already scanned from the air.
03 · PLATFORM
2nth.ai
The nervous system
Hive on Frappe: fleet console, audit ledger, agent layer. Firmware architecture, secure boot, OTA. The cloud and the silicon under everything.
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Be there
when they land.

First fifty operators on the list get a private demo, an early-access discount, and the launch dossier the morning of 04 May.

No spam. One transmission, when the droids land.  ·  Or visit scanman.co ↗ for the full briefing.