The micro-fulfillment category moved past the "is this real?" conversation sometime in 2025. The numbers and the retailer case studies are all pointing the same way, which doesn't happen often in supply chain. The micro-fulfillment centre market The MFC market reached 12.4 billion dollars in…
Five vendors come up in almost every AMR-era conversation I have in 2026. A short note on each, mostly to keep them straight in my own head. Symbotic The numbers are hard to ignore. 2.247 billion dollars in fiscal 2025 revenue, up 26 percent. 22.3 billion dollar backlog.…
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…
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…