Three separate pieces of news from the past nine months keep bubbling up in my head and I want to put them in one place. They're the kind of thing that used to live in the "2030 outlook" section of every deck, and they've…
There's a press release I've been thinking about for a week. DHL Supply Chain and Locus Robotics just crossed one billion cumulative picks on their joint AMR fleet. The billionth item, the one that actually tripped the counter, was a pink beanie. I don't…
A small number from a grocery slotting project caught me this week and I want to write it down before I forget it. A grocery distributor, one of the big ones, ran a generative AI model across twelve months of order lines and its own warehouse slotting. The model came…
I was scrolling through humanoid robot coverage last week and ended up in a spot I didn't expect. The press coverage is going one way, the actual shipment numbers are going a different way, and I can't stop thinking about the gap. At the start of…
The framing around nearshoring shifted in 2025-2026, and I think most people missed the moment it happened because it happened gradually. It used to be a tactical response to shipping costs and COVID disruption. In 2026 it's a strategic reorientation, backed by capital commitments large enough to rebuild…
I used to think of warehouse sustainability as an ESG slide in the corporate deck. In 2026 it's a line item in the project budget, usually with regulation sitting behind it and finance checking the math. The stakes Green logistics is already a 1.43 trillion dollar market…
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…