R5 and R5+

Source-backed capabilities

• Workflows: Warehouse automation, Automated storage and retrieval workflow
• Automated storage and retrieval

  Production use - Digs, carries and delivers storage bins to workstation ports for fulfillment or replenishment. - environment: commercial AutoStore warehouse systems

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• Order and component sorting

  Customer-site use - 2025-02-25 - The case study says iDM scaled from about 3,000 to 30,000 units annually while reducing bottlenecks and improving order fulfillment.

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• Warehouse fulfillment

  Customer-site use - 2025-02-25 - The case study says iDM scaled from about 3,000 to 30,000 units annually while reducing bottlenecks and improving order fulfillment.

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• Albert Heijn scales e-grocery fulfillment with AutoStore

  2026-07-20 - Deployment - The goods-to-person system now fulfills about 15,000 grocery totes a day for roughly 7,000 Rotterdam-area customers, replacing long walking routes in the Home Shop Center. The installation uses 377 R5 robots, 45,000–49,000 bins and 56 ports—two CarouselPorts, 34 RelayPorts and 20 ConveyorPorts—with SynQ WMS integration. AutoStore eliminated about 750 km of daily warehouse walking, while its modular design and redundant robot operation support growth and 24/7 delivery-window reliability.

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• Footasylum selects THG Fulfil and AutoStore for 85-robot fulfilment system

  2026-06-30 - Deployment - The system includes 85 AutoStore R5 robots and more than 96,000 bin locations. The project includes 24 carousel ports. First-order go-live is targeted for September 2026.

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• Moen improves throughput 435% with AutoStore

  2026-03-12 - Deployment - The greenfield installation combines 41 R5 robots, 41,000 bins and 11 workstations across seven CarouselPorts and four ConveyorPorts. Moen reports a 435% throughput increase, peak picking of up to 700 order lines per hour and movement from AutoStore picking to truck loading in under an hour for many orders. FORTNA’s WES and WCS coordinate receiving through shipping, while automated right-sized packaging reduces material waste and reported labour dependency falls by 60%.

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• Hobbii scales global e-commerce fulfillment with AutoStore

  2026-02-19 - Deployment - Hobbii’s Greve distribution center ships through 15 localized webshops to more than 80 countries, replacing a manual warehouse workflow that struggled with order sequencing and peak demand. The installation uses 116 R5+ robots, eight CarouselPorts, four RelayPorts and four ConveyorPorts in a goods-to-person system that combines picking and packing into one flow. The current configuration supports up to 16,500 orders in 24 hours, 800–1,000 orders per hour at peak and nearly 70,000 picks in a day, with modular expansion available without stopping operations.

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• RoboStores scales Dubai 3PL fulfilment with AutoStore

  2026-01-06 - Deployment - The system handles multi-client e-commerce fulfilment with five R5 robots, four ConveyorPorts and 10,000 bins, while Put-to-Light supports order consolidation. SynQ WMS connects the AutoStore grid to RoboStores’ ERP, and machine-learning slotting keeps fast-moving items accessible with typical retrievals in 29–40 seconds. The eight-month implementation supports 24/7 operations and helped reduce staffing needs to about four fulfilment operators while improving order accuracy and scalability.

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• Northern Tool cuts labor costs nearly in half with AutoStore

  2025-07-29 - Deployment - Northern Tool’s AutoStore-enabled operation supports more than 100,000 products across direct-to-customer, e-commerce and store-replenishment orders, raising same-day shipping from 17% to 99%. The installation uses 62 R5 robots, 23,175 bins, six CarouselPorts and three ConveyorPorts, with orders picked into right-sized Packsize cartons and moved through automated sealing and labeling. Swisslog SynQ and the AutoStore redesign eliminated a three-level pick module, freed about 50,000 square feet, reduced labor costs by nearly 50% without job losses and left room for further storage growth.

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• MSC Industrial Supply deploys 41 AutoStore R5 robots for MRO fulfilment

  2025-07-25 - Deployment - The brownfield system uses 41 R5 robots, 15,847 bins, eight CarouselPorts and four ConveyorPorts at MSC’s distribution operation. MSC manages more than 570,000 SKUs at its Elkhart facility, and AutoStore brings goods to ergonomic workstations to reduce walking, repetitive lifting and manual picking strain. The deployment delivered nearly 40% labour savings, faster and more predictable order processing, and higher throughput without additional space or labour; Bastian Solutions, part of Toyota Automated Logistics, served as integration partner.

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• AutoStore scales Ingram Content Group’s high-density fulfilment

  2025-05-28 - Deployment - The Grid uses 160 R5 robots, more than 80,000 bins and 31 ports—23 CarouselPorts and eight ConveyorPorts—for automated retrieval and put-away. The system lets Ingram store a broad SKU range in less space while independent robots support simultaneous picking and replenishment during standard and peak periods. AutoStore reports improved accuracy and throughput with fewer full-time equivalents, while the modular design leaves capacity for future expansion.

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• WesTrac scales spare-parts fulfilment with AutoStore

  2025-04-30 - Deployment - The brownfield installation went live in 2023 with a 16,750-bin grid, 34 R5 robots, 10 ports and WMS integration for real-time inventory control. Picking improved 67%, from about 300 to more than 500 lines per hour, and urgent orders can be processed within five to 10 minutes. The system adds 1,000 m² of available warehouse space, reduces walking and physical strain, and can expand through more robots, bins and grid modules; Dematic is the named integration partner.

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• Haemill Logics cuts costs 30% with AutoStore

  2025-04-22 - Deployment - The brownfield installation uses eight R5 robots, 6,079 bins, two CarouselPorts and one ConveyorPort, integrated with Haemill’s NEXOS warehouse-management system. The same inventory now occupies one quarter of the previous space, while daily employee steps fell from 20,000 to 8,000 and processed orders increased by 25%. Haemill reports a 30% profitability improvement, 10% fewer picking errors and fourfold warehouse efficiency, with Asetec as implementation partner and further capacity expansion planned.

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• Playmobil quadruples spare-parts storage capacity with AutoStore

  2025-04-15 - Deployment - The brownfield system uses 24 R5 robots, 16,376 bins and four CarouselPorts, integrated with Kardex Mlog systems at Playmobil’s Herrieden logistics centre. The installation handles individual spare parts and complete playsets, supports more than 20,700 annual shipments and delivers four times the storage capacity within the existing footprint. The operation reports 99.7% uptime and lower energy needs through aisle-free storage and regenerative robot braking, while Kardex Holding AG served as the integration partner.

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• AutoStore system enables Zajadacz overnight electrical-parts fulfilment

  2025-03-24 - Deployment - Zajadacz chose AutoStore with AM Logistic Solutions to handle overnight electrical-component orders while maximizing storage within its existing warehouse footprint. The brownfield installation uses 52 R5 robots, 64,000 bins, 10 CarouselPorts and 2 RelayPorts for pick-and-pack, buffering and dispatch. AutoStore reports up to 1,300 container deliveries per hour, improved picking accuracy and same-day shipping capability.

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• AutoStore improves Toranoana picking efficiency by 70%

  2025-03-02 - Deployment - The 3,600-square-metre Grid stores 42,080 bins for roughly 50,000 product types and two million individual items. Forty-two R5 robots deliver bins to 21 ports, while the system integrates with Okamura Corporation and automated packing for round-the-clock operations. The hub processes nearly 70% of Toranoana's shipments through AutoStore, reducing walking and supporting higher productivity as the retailer expands.

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• AutoStore logistics hub enables iDM tenfold production growth

  2025-02-25 - Deployment - The hub combines AutoStore small-parts storage with a high-bay pallet warehouse and integrated conveyors to improve material flow and stock visibility. The system holds 16,000 bins across seven Grid levels in a 1,052-square-metre footprint, with one CarouselPort and four ConveyorPorts. The case study says iDM scaled from about 3,000 to 30,000 units annually while reducing bottlenecks and improving order fulfillment.

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• Cutter & Buck automates Seattle fulfilment with AutoStore

  2024-07-22 - Deployment - The Renton distribution center uses AutoStore to induct individual blank garments into a cubic Grid and deliver orders directly to CarouselPorts, reducing travel through the multilevel pick tower. The project specifications list 54 R5 robots, more than 34,000 bins, nine CarouselPorts and two ConveyorPorts across roughly 10,000 square feet of the facility. Kardex supplied the WES layer through FulfillX, while the redesigned workflow can complete a blank order in under 10 minutes and leaves room for five-year growth.

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• DHL APAC Innovation Center showcases AutoStore demo Grid

  2024-05-16 - Demonstration - 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.

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• R5+ extends AutoStore’s cube-storage robot family

  2022-01-13 - Product Launch - The R5+ joined AutoStore’s R5 robot family. It brought a high-bin capability previously associated with the B1 robot to the R5 platform. AutoStore announced the product in Norway on 13 January 2022.

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• Bounce

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• HaiPick A42

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