Kallikor Launches to Boost Automation and Robotics in Supply Chains

Kallikor has launched, a new venture helmed by a team with a decade of expertise in AI, simulation, and virtual world-building, has been launched to revolutionise automation and robotics adoption in addressing supply chain complexities and productivity issues.

Kallikor's premier offering, the AI-driven platform Adaption, excels at converting intricate real-world scenarios into streamlined digital simulations. This enables businesses to create digital twins of their operations, providing enhanced visibility and real-time, data-driven forecasting to make confident, optimal decisions and strategies.

By leveraging Adaption, companies can anticipate and navigate unpredictable supply chain challenges, from modelling the effects of extreme events and increased competition to accelerating the integration of new technologies and maximising return on investment.

Previously operating as the Enterprise Insights division of Improbable Worlds – a leader in Metaverse development for over ten years – Kallikor inherits a legacy of pioneering AI and simulation technologies. The team has applied these innovations across diverse domains, from large-scale virtual gaming to military strategy planning.

Now, Kallikor is poised to apply its unique expertise to transforming business strategies, merging real and digital worlds through AI-powered synthetic models. This approach aims to mitigate the risks, costs, and time associated with supply chain transformation.

Leading Kallikor are Jonathan Barrett as CEO, Stephen Rose as Product and Technology Officer, and Dave Culley as Product Director. Their combined experience from Improbable and other cutting-edge technology sectors, such as Formula One, positions them to tackle the complexities and productivity challenges in supply chain management.

Jonathan Barrett, CEO of Kallikor, said: “Changing customer demands, new regulations, geopolitical uncertainties and the rise of AI all contribute to the rapid change and complexity experienced by business leaders – particularly within supply chains. The need to gain visibility beyond the horizon has never been stronger, which is why we created Kallikor.”

“By utilising cutting-edge technologies, Kallikor equips businesses not just to predict their future but to shape it. Whether it's managing warehouses or developing global distribution networks, Kallikor helps companies adopt automation and robotics to transform their operations with cost effective and easy-to-use digital twin simulations. With these real-time insights, we enable intelligent, confident decision-making at every level of our customer’s organisations.”

Helping businesses leap ahead

According to recent research by Savills, the future of warehouses in the UK will be defined by another chapter of rapid growth and increasing complexity as businesses strive to meet new consumer expectations.

As a result, businesses are becoming more reliant on their supply chains, but having the right tools and skills to manage these systems and respond to changes remains a challenge.

Kallikor is well positioned to tackle these barriers, building on its rich gaming and military heritage, creating synthetic worlds to help businesses integrate the latest in AI and robotics technology to replicate and analyse their operations in a virtual setting.

Adaption supports collaborative decision-making, shortening the route from data to decision to action. This gives corporate leaders more clarity, control, and confidence when making decisions at a pace, knowing their strategies are backed by precise, robust simulations.

Dave Culley, Product Director, added: “Ultimately, it’s people who make decisions, which is why we’ve designed our platform with human-decision making in mind. We create synthetic digital environments that power strategic operations decision-making beyond the horizon, helping organisations balance contingencies against opportunities, and pivot their operational strategies and tactics as new information emerges.

“Our approach, designed to enable companies to 'leap forward', doesn't just help organisations keep pace with their competitors; it propels them ahead as leaders, capable of turning uncertainty into opportunity and gaining a sustainable competitive advantage.”

Creating operations heroes

Kallikor is committed to driving progress, not just for customers but for society. Adaption enables companies to evaluate the environmental, social, and economic implications of their choices with ease, enabling them to reach sustainability metrics and incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their decision-making processes.

Kallikor helps create operations heroes, enabling teams to make decisions that reduce their carbon footprint, improve resource efficiency, and drive positive societal impact, all while maintaining a competitive edge in their industries.

Stephen Rose, Product and Technology Officer, said: “There’s a huge potential to put operations at the centre of corporate positive impact. Kallikor helps teams harness the latest in robotics and AI technology to leap ahead, by identifying where they can make changes in their supply chain to move closer to achieving wider business sustainability goals. It doesn’t have to just be about base costs; Kallikor can help operations teams make a bigger impact, turning them into the heroes of corporate social responsibility.”