DHL Timeline

Events

• 2025-10-16 - Partnership - Jacobi Robotics wins DHL Fast Forward Challenge and begins innovation partnership exploration - The DHL Fast Forward Challenge award gives Jacobi Robotics a route to explore a joint pilot in the Americas. DHL’s Innovation team will support the next phase of Jacobi’s mixed-case palletizing work. The challenge connects the system with DHL supply-chain… - source: dhl.com
• 2025-03-17 - Deployment - DHL deploys SVT Robotics SOFTBOT platform across warehouses - DHL said the plug-and-play platform could make robotics integrations up to 12 times faster than custom coding. The rollout supports pre-built connectors for new robotics technologies across DHL’s warehouse network. DHL cited more than 8,000 collaborative… - source: group.dhl.com
• 2024-05-16 - Demonstration - DHL APAC Innovation Center showcases AutoStore demo Grid - The exhibit uses an AutoStore R5 robot and ConveyorPort. Visitors had been able to experience the interactive showcase since January 2024. This is a demonstration installation at an innovation centre, not evidence of a customer fulfilment deployment. - source: autostoresystem.com
• 2023-05-11 - Deployment - DHL expands Locus AMR rollout to 5,000 robots - The companies described the expansion as the industry’s largest AMR deal at the time. Locus said the robots were expected to be fully integrated into DHL Supply Chain operations by the end of 2023. The rollout followed DHL’s earlier plan to deploy 2,000… - source: robotics247.com