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512 articlesOn X, Auddomate published a product-style update describing a machine library for warehouse layout a
On X, Auddomate published a product-style update describing a machine library for warehouse layout and automation feasibility work. The library covers twenty-nine equipment classes including counterbalance and reach trucks, VNA, pallet movers, tow tractors, AMRs, and AGVs, each with speed, width, le...
Konecranes and APM Terminals Maasvlakte II marked handover of Konecranes’ 1,000th automated guided v
Konecranes and APM Terminals Maasvlakte II marked handover of Konecranes’ 1,000th automated guided vehicle at the Rotterdam terminal. The milestone AGV is presented as the product of more than a decade of joint work on automated container moves between quay and yard. In this setting AGVs are electri...
KUKA has launched the KMF 1500P-CB, the first model in a new autonomous forklift family aimed at man
KUKA has launched the KMF 1500P-CB, the first model in a new autonomous forklift family aimed at manufacturing and warehouse pallet handling. The counterbalanced AMR/AGV-style vehicle is specified to move open and closed pallets and containers up to 1,500 kilograms and to lift to about three meters....
Hai Robotics has been selected for what it calls the world’s largest rack-climbing warehouse robot p
Hai Robotics has been selected for what it calls the world’s largest rack-climbing warehouse robot project: more than 1,500 HaiPick Climb robots inside a single e-commerce fulfillment operation for a major European fashion retailer. The site is described as about 30,000 square meters with 1.2 millio...
Inbound Logistics’ September feature on the “connected warehouse” reports that highly automated site
Inbound Logistics’ September feature on the “connected warehouse” reports that highly automated sites remain rare—about 6 percent—while more than 60 percent of warehouses are still fully manual, even though most operators plan some automation by 2028. The article treats integration, not hardware nov...
A newly published Blue Yonder explainer frames warehouse automation as orchestration between softwar
A newly published Blue Yonder explainer frames warehouse automation as orchestration between software “brain” and physical “muscle,” not as a single machine type. It argues that traditional person-to-goods work still wastes large amounts of picker time on walking, while automated operations can lift...
Amazon Robotics has expanded its Proteus autonomous mobile robot fleet into additional North America
Amazon Robotics has expanded its Proteus autonomous mobile robot fleet into additional North American fulfillment centers, moving the platform from earlier pilots into broader operational use. Proteus is built to carry heavy and bulky inventory, commonly cited at loads of around 300 pounds, and to t...
English X activity in the last 24 hours is thin on original product news. Relevant posts are mostly
English X activity in the last 24 hours is thin on original product news. Relevant posts are mostly vendor or integrator explainers: Fonseca Advisers (11 September) arguing WMS must stay flexible as warehouse layouts and SKU mixes change, pointing to a Light WMS blog; Web Synergies posting a WMS vid...
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Market-research houses refreshed AGV/AMR and warehouse-automation outlooks dated 10 September 2026 (
Market-research houses refreshed AGV/AMR and warehouse-automation outlooks dated 10 September 2026 (Logistics IQ / DRI listings). The AGV and AMR market is projected to exceed USD 18 billion by 2027 with installed base on the order of 2.4 million units, logistics and manufacturing remaining the dema...
Logis-Tech Tokyo 2026 (8–11 September at Tokyo Big Sight) is the main live industry event in this wi
Logis-Tech Tokyo 2026 (8–11 September at Tokyo Big Sight) is the main live industry event in this window. Daifuku is exhibiting under the theme “Robotics in Motion,” showing the new Shuttle Rack LX four-way pallet shuttle, Fine Shuttle rack-integrated case AS/RS, SOTR forklift AMR and pallet/piece s...
A parallel Modern Materials Handling 2026 Outlook Survey, also dated 10 September 2026, shows near-t
A parallel Modern Materials Handling 2026 Outlook Survey, also dated 10 September 2026, shows near-term caution on some capex but continued multi-year commitment to warehouse automation. Sixteen percent of respondents already run AMRs or AGVs, versus 10 percent a year earlier, and 27 percent will ev...
Modern Materials Handling published its 2026 Intralogistics Robotics Survey on 10 September 2026, re
Modern Materials Handling published its 2026 Intralogistics Robotics Survey on 10 September 2026, reporting that warehouse and plant robotics have moved from isolated pilots into mainstream capital planning. Peerless Research Group surveyed 166 readers across manufacturing, warehousing, wholesale an...
Hai Robotics has been selected to equip a new large-scale e-commerce fulfillment center for a leadin
Hai Robotics has been selected to equip a new large-scale e-commerce fulfillment center for a leading European fashion retailer with what the company describes as the world’s largest single-site deployment of rack-climbing warehouse robots. The project is built around the HaiPick Climb goods-to-pers...
Community and vendor posts in the same window keep returning to the same economics the MMH studies q
Community and vendor posts in the same window keep returning to the same economics the MMH studies quantified. One widely shared comparison put a basic warehouse robot near a $40,000 one-time cost versus a warehouse worker’s annual fully loaded cost, arguing payback is a countdown rather than a tech...
Clarus WMS used LinkedIn in the last day to push an agentic AI assistant now out of closed beta. The
Clarus WMS used LinkedIn in the last day to push an agentic AI assistant now out of closed beta. The cloud-native 3PL-oriented WMS says the assistant answers live stock questions, flags exceptions, and can act rather than only report. The company also released an MCP server so Claude, ChatGPT and si...
On X, Ambi Robotics cofounder-adjacent discussion and the Scaling Robotics interview circulating on
On X, Ambi Robotics cofounder-adjacent discussion and the Scaling Robotics interview circulating on September 3 described how piece-handling robots are being inserted into existing warehouses. The operating rules emphasized keeping WMS/sorter interfaces small and well defined so the robot stays gene...
Automated Warehouse’s September recap of August 2026 developments remains the most compact public di
Automated Warehouse’s September recap of August 2026 developments remains the most compact public digest of recent project news circulating in the last two days. Brightpick is adding 44 Autopicker robots for Dr. Max Group after a Prague pharmacy DC scale-up, extending into other Czech and Slovak sit...
ZS Robotics announced a 5.5-meter low-height high-density warehouse solution built around four-way p
ZS Robotics announced a 5.5-meter low-height high-density warehouse solution built around four-way pallet shuttles for buildings that cannot take conventional high-bay AS/RS. The ZS-H125 shuttle has a 125 mm profile, 15 sensing elements for positioning and obstacle avoidance, and a 20-wheel drive in...
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