Cold storage has always demanded human sacrifice — people working in brutal conditions because automation could only ever do part of the job.
Rated operating temperature — entire fleet
lbs max payload capacity
Runtime in freezer conditions
Humans required on the freezer floor
Few automation vendors have a cold-rated robot at all — and the ones that do might have a single product, bolted onto a WES from a different vendor, integrated by a third party, and left to the customer to manage when something breaks or needs to change. The result: even “automated” freezer operations still need people on the floor — someone to handle the workflows the robot can’t reach: decanting, picking, palletizing, wrapping. Some of the biggest names in warehouse automation still advise buyers that mobile robots can’t survive deep-freeze conditions at all. Prime built differently. The Arctic Series is an entire fleet — every AMR, every device, every integration — designed from the ground up for -20°F, orchestrated by a single software layer.
Cold storage still runs on human operators in the freezer.
Full shifts in brutal conditions because automation only did part of the job.
These aren’t renders. These are real Prime deployments.
Running a food pallet through RoboScan case registration — more AMRs staging at left.
A full food pallet riding the lift deck — rated to 4,400 lb in the cold.
Working a freezer aisle at a live European deployment — this is the cold, not a render.
PES orchestrates the entire cold warehouse as one coordinated system — not seven separate workflows managed by different vendors.
MobilePallet Arctic accepts inbound pallets straight off the dock.
MobilePallet Arctic runs every case through automatic registration.
A third-party blast freezer crane, driven by PES like every other device — no human enters the environment.
MobilePallet Arctic delivers the pallet to a conveyor that tunnels out of the freezer into the cooler dock area — no door cycling, no human crossing.
RackBot Arctic, VTU Arctic, and PTU Arctic handle high-density storage.
MobilePallet Arctic and MobileShelf Arctic keep pick faces fed.
Mixed Case Arm and Layer Picking Arm build outbound orders.
Advanced Pallet Stations, RackBot Arctic, Wulftec wrapper, and MobilePallet Arctic close the loop.
Product staged on pallet stands for AMR pickup.
Third-party crane, driven by PES — no human enters.
Conveyor exits the freezer to the cooler dock — straight into the wrapper.
Wulftec wrapper — fully automated final step.
Walk almost any “automated” freezer and you’ll still find this: a person in full cold gear, scanner in hand, picking cases beside a conveyor at -20°F. Transport got automated. Storage got automated. The pick — the most labor-intensive job in the building — stayed human, because frozen product defeats ordinary robotics: frosted, deformed cases and dense product that standard grippers were never engineered to hold.
The Arctic Series closes the gap that freezer warehouse automation has always left open — two ways. MobileShelf and MobilePallet Arctic keep pick faces fed automatically, bringing product to stations instead of people to aisles. And where the pick itself should be robotic, the Mixed Case Arm and Layer Picking Arm build outbound orders under PES control — specified for frozen product, not adapted to it after the fact.
The status quo: full cold gear, a scanner, and a shift beside the conveyor. This is the job the Arctic Series retires.
Every other vendor automates part of the freezer. Prime is the only company with a fleet, stations, and software all rated and orchestrated for -20°F.
Rated across the entire fleet — not one cold-adapted robot
End-to-end workflow stages, one orchestration layer
Humans required on the freezer floor
Talk to a Prime engineer about your specific cold storage operation — and see the only complete -20°F automation stack running end to end.
A 20-minute call where we walk through the deployment, answer technical questions, and assess your cold warehouse requirements.
Full Arctic Series specifications including robot dimensions, electrical requirements, and integration protocols.
Talk to a Prime engineer about your specific cold storage operation — temperatures, throughput, and layout.
