AutoStore has been a defining warehouse automation product for years, but the company had its biggest portfolio expansion since the original grid in 2025-2026. Four product lines shipped in that window, and a framework deal on top of them tells you where they think the market is going. The four…
Two of the older names in warehouse automation made their biggest platform moves in years during the 2025-2026 window, and they did basically the same thing. Both stopped selling mechanics and started selling orchestration. Dematic: a factory expansion plus a command center In January 2026 Dematic kicked off a 150…
The flashy part of warehouse automation is the robot that picks. The less visible layer, drone-based inventory counting and live digital twins, is where some of the most useful progress has happened in 2025-2026. None of it looks good on a conference stage and all of it is worth paying…
I had to look a couple of these numbers up twice because they didn't line up with what I assumed. A short round-up of the figures worth knowing about warehouse automation in 2026, with the one that surprised me most at the end. The top-line * Global warehouse automation…
I've been keeping informal notes on what keeps coming up in the supply chain conversations I'm part of in 2026. There are roughly five things, and they don't live in separate rooms. Each one keeps reinforcing the others. Tariffs and geopolitical volatility The US…
Mecalux published its 2026 logistics outlook early in January and it's worth a read if you're planning the next twelve months. The five trends they identify are individually unsurprising, but it's interesting as a cluster because they all point the same direction. The five,…
In April 2026 a company called Exol announced a US-wide robotic fulfillment network built on a fulfillment-as-a-service model. I had to re-read the funding number twice. It's a real number. The basics Exol (formerly GreenBox Logistics) isn't selling automation to brands. Instead, it's running…
Brightpick launched Gridpicker in March 2026 and I spent a while staring at the throughput numbers. If they hold up under real-world conditions, the shuttle market has a problem. What they're claiming * Roughly 2 times the throughput per square meter compared to shuttle systems * 100 plus picks per…