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…
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…
People ask me what warehouse solution design actually is, and I'm never sure how to answer in one sentence. It isn't picking between AutoStore and a pallet shuttle. It starts three months before anyone orders a pallet shuttle, in a room with a spreadsheet, a customer…
Three years ago, a "micro-fulfillment centre" was a fancy term for a stockroom with a conveyor belt. In 2026 it's a fully autonomous 3,000 square meter warehouse that fits inside a decommissioned supermarket basement and ships five-hour orders across a 12 kilometer radius with almost…