Unlocking the next era of physical labor, making productivity limitless.
HIVE was founded in Norway, by a team that understands industrial operations from the inside. The physical AI platform was built in the field, in tunnels, on snowfields, and at ports - not in a lab or a pitch deck.
Manual labour is constrained.
Automation is no longer optional because the alternative, hiring more operators, is not viable. Three constraints, all structural, all getting worse.
Annual operator turnover in EU logistics. Workforce shrinking, aging out faster than replaced. Every rotation re-opens a productivity gap.
Of a 2-shift forklift's loaded TCO is the operator. Wages up 4–7% per year. Shift premiums, sickness cover and onboarding outpace machine cost.
Forklift-operator injury rate vs. average warehouse role. Shifts go uncovered. Safety incidents block throughput. Iron sits idle 34% of the time.
Physical machines run the world, and every one of them needs a brain to operate it. Today that brain is human: scarce, hard to scale, and stretched thin.
Multiply the human brain with AI, and the economics flip. Every correction compounds. The cost of industrial work falls immediately, enabling a new industrial productivity revolution.
grows
The body is the machine.
From forklifts to wheel loaders. One Physical AI platform for the full fleet of material-handling machines.
One model. Every industrial machine.
Reach stackers · Excavators
Haulers · Terminal tractors
for industrial Physical AI
Light tasks · heavy tasks
Cross-task generalization
Two components becoming one silicon brain.
+ Fusion
+ Execution
Four selected live deployments. Real customers. Real production. Real operational data.
Operational on Volvo wheel loaders and Toyota Counterbalanced forklifts today. Hive does the hard task in the sector, Loading, Unloading at Height made reliable. Indoor and Outdoor.