warehouse-automation

Honeywell is divesting its Warehouse and Workflow Solutions unit, built on Intelligrated and Transnorm, to private equity firm AIP as it concludes a multi-year breakup.

Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao launched ZeeBot, a warehouse robot that drives the floor at up to 4 m/s and climbs five-level racks in about 10 seconds.

Kawasaki Robotics premiered the RL030N, an eight-degree-of-freedom arm built for physical AI, and named Dexterity's Mech warehouse robot as an early adopter.

The International Federation of Robotics gave its 2026 innovation and entrepreneurship award to Verity, whose self-flying drones scan warehouse inventory in 13 countries.

German robotics-AI startup Sereact raised a $110M Series B led by Headline to scale its Cortex 2.0 software and open a first US office in Boston.

Amazon's new Proteus understands conversational commands and works beyond loading docks, debuting in London alongside a more than €10 billion European fulfillment investment.

Locus Robotics buys Vancouver-based Nexera Robotics, adding NeuraGrasp's patented soft-membrane gripper to its Locus Array autonomous fulfillment system.

Figure AI's Helix-02-powered Figure 03 humanoids ran a public, multi-day sorting livestream from May 13, processing more than 100,000 packages in 81 hours with no teleoperation — though a leading roboticist calls the demo more 'science project' than commercial proof.

Skild AI has bought Zebra Technologies' robotics automation unit, combining its hardware-agnostic Skild Brain with Zebra's Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform to pursue a unified software layer for warehouses.