DHL
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About DHL
DHL applies different robot types to individual stages of parcel and warehouse flow. Boston Dynamics’ Stretch unloads loose cartons from trailers onto conveyors, while Locus and 6 River mobile robots guide picking and move orders between storage, packing and dispatch areas.
The group tests systems inside live logistics operations, integrates them with warehouse software and scales successful configurations across multiple customer sites. DHL reports more than 2,000 robots operating across its UK, Ireland and EMEA supply-chain network, including hundreds of collaborative mobile robots deployed across fulfilment centres.
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Deployments
- Operating use
2025-10-01 - DHL reported more than 8,000 collaborative robots integrated across global operations. - DHL global operations
Source - Operating use
2023-05-11 - DHL Supply Chain expanded its Locus Robotics AMR rollout to 5,000 Locus Origin robots across multiple sites. - multi-site AMR rollout - multiple DHL Supply Chain sites
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Locus Robotics
Inbound - Equipment - Locus Robotics supplies 5,000 Locus autonomous mobile robots for DHL global warehouse network
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Timeline
Events
- 2026-03-16 - Deployment - DHL expands SVT SOFTBOT across warehouse network
SOFTBOT was live at 30 DHL sites; expansion beyond 100 sites over the following three years remained a plan. DHL completed goods-to-person integrations in three hours in Europe and added technology to live Asia-Pacific operations without downtime. Prebuilt connectors link automation to warehouse systems, while a shared dashboard provides monitoring across sites.
Source - 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 sites for pilot design and operational evaluation.
Source - 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 - 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 assisted picking robots.
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Relations
Relationships
- Jacobi Robotics
Deployment Partner - Jacobi won DHL's Fast Forward Challenge with a pathway to explore a joint pilot in the Americas and support from DHL's Innovation team.
- Boston Dynamics
Robot Deployment - DHL Supply Chain deploys Boston Dynamics Stretch robots to automate trailer unloading in warehouse operations.
- Filics
Pilot Robot Use - DHL has tested Filics pallet-transport robots in intralogistics pilot applications.
- Servo7
Warehouse Customer - Servo7 identifies DHL as a customer for its warehouse container-unloading robots.