Prove your autonomous forklift in your warehouse. Before it drives there.
Forge's AI rebuilds your racking, docks and aisles, your forklift and its sensors, then writes the forklift edge cases (people at aisle ends, loads at height, trailers and glare) and shows you where it fails and how close it came.
// 01 Where forklifts fail
What an autonomous forklift has to survive.
These are the conditions that decide a real deployment — and the ones a scripted demo never shows. Forge reproduces them by the thousand, before your robot ever reaches a customer floor. You choose which moments matter for your site and how hard to push each one.
// 02 AI builds your world
Your warehouse and your forklift, built by AI, checked by you, tuned to behave like the real thing.
Describe the site and import the truck. AI builds the racking and docks, tunes how the forklift brakes and lifts with and without a load, and calibrates the sensors it relies on.
Scene
Your warehouse
“Six aisles of selective racking, four dock doors, a pedestrian walkway along the south wall.”
- Racking with real beam heights
- Dock doors, plates and trailers
- Aisles, lanes and walkways
Robot
Your forklift
Import the truck model. AI maps the mast, carriage and forks, then tunes it against real test data.
- Mast, carriage and fork geometry
- Counterbalance and load curves
- Braking with and without a load
Sensors
Its sensors
AI places and calibrates the sensors the forklift relies on to see people, pallets and racking.
- Safety LiDAR warning and protective fields
- Fork-tip and pallet cameras
- Realistic glare, dust and noise
// 03 AI writes your tests
Forklift test suites, ready on day one.
Start from suites written for forklifts. AI adapts each scenario to your warehouse and your truck and suggests the edge cases worth running. You decide what goes in the suite.
Safety
- People at aisle ends and crossings
- Speed zones and slow-downs
- Emergency stop and field switching
- Blind corners and mirrors
Operations
- Put-away and retrieval at height
- Picking from floor and stacks
- Trailer loading and unloading
- Staging-lane handoffs
Integration
- Warehouse system task handoff
- Traffic rules with manual trucks
- Charging and parking
- Fleet commands
Reliability
- Full-shift endurance runs
- Dirty lenses and sensor wear
- Regression on every release
- Recovery after a stop
// 04 The verdict
Know exactly how close it came.
Every run is measured against the limits that matter for a forklift: stopping distance, placement, sway and clearance. When it fails, you see the worst combination and can replay it deterministically.
- MeasureWorstLimitResult
- Placement offset+18 mm±25 mmPASS
- Mast sway1.4°2.0°PASS
- Stop distance to a person0.41 m≥ 0.50 mFAIL
- Fork entry clearance22 mm≥ 15 mmPASS
// 05 Who it's for
For the teams who build forklifts, the teams who install them, and the teams who run them.
Forklift makers
Prove each software release against the aisles, docks and loads your customers actually have. Walk into each pilot with evidence mapped to ISO 3691-4, and catch regressions before a customer does.
Book a demo for makersSystem integrators
Commission the forklift, the fleet manager and the WMS on one simulated floor before the site is live. Prove traffic rules, VDA 5050 handoffs and mixed traffic with manual trucks, and hand the customer a commissioning record they can audit.
Book a demo for integratorsWarehouse & logistics operators
Test a forklift against your own racking, dock doors and shift patterns before go-live. Share pass or fail with safety and operations, with no engineering team required — your operations and safety people review the runs.
Book a demo for operatorsMore solutions
Forklifts first. What moves next.
The same AI workflow is coming to other robots. Tell us what you're building and we'll bring you in early.
Book a forklift demo
Bring us the aisle that worries you most.
We'll rebuild it, run your forklift through it and walk you through the verdict in 30 minutes.