Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Ocado automation enters operation at AEON Next’s Hachioji fulfilment centre
- AutoFreezer automates frozen-goods storage and picking, reducing the need for employees to work inside the freezer.
- The four-storey site has about 40,000m² of floor space on a 54,000m² plot.
- AEON Next expects productivity to reach 115% of its Honda centre benchmark; further robotic handling expansion depends on operating volumes.
Rapyuta ASRS starts operating at two Nippon Express sites
- The installations connect with existing WMS and document workflows without a major system overhaul.
- The modular design supports phased expansion, dismantling and relocation as logistics requirements change.
- Nippon Express says its teams are still optimising bin subdivision, stored inventory and order batching.
Circus reports more than 30 deployed systems across eight countries
- Its robots have prepared more than 230,000 meals cumulatively.
- Mature-site uptime exceeded 93% in Q3, compared with 70% at the start of the year.
- The company targets more than 50 deployed systems by year-end and reports the start of CA-A volume production.
ALS launches planned Cyberjaya driverless RoboVan road trial
- The Level 4 goods vehicle is intended to operate in mixed traffic with no onboard driver or passenger and remote supervision from ALS’s Cyberjaya operations centre.
- Malaysia’s road-transport authority authorised public-road testing in June; the remote operations centre launched in July.
- The programme follows a January postal-logistics proof of concept involving ALS, Zelostech and Pos Malaysia.
Geek+ completes MISUMI West Japan PopPick installation
- The East and West Japan centres together have 149 robots, 15 stations and 801 shelves.
- At the earlier East Japan centre, the issuer reports roughly double productivity and storage efficiency versus the previous operation.
- The west rollout reuses operating procedures, training and improvements developed at the east site for high-variety industrial-parts logistics.
Matternet and Apian extend NHS drone deliveries to Great Ormond Street
- The partners say urgent delivery times can fall by up to 90%, supporting quicker laboratory processing.
- The initial route connects GOSH with nearby TDL laboratories, with additional sites planned.
- Matternet reports more than 60,000 commercial flights across its global network, separate from this new hospital route.
Waymo targets first Toronto robotaxi riders in 2028 with Element fleet support
- Manual driving is due to begin in the following days; the announcement is not a launch of driverless passenger service.
- Element will provide end-to-end fleet management, extending the companies’ existing partnership to Toronto.
- Facilities and hundreds of operational roles are planned over time; the release gives no committed passenger-service fleet count.
Hyundai details 204-robot Pune factory configuration and automated welding
- Six cobots support automatic ADAS calibration without equipment modifications for each new vehicle model.
- AI cameras monitor press access and detect small panel cracks and surface defects.
- Current annual vehicle capacity is about 170,000, with expansion to 320,000 targeted by 2030.
HopeRun Tokyo schedules Hoprobo guidance trials at two Kanagawa schools
- The eastern school will test guidance to locations around campus; the western school will use the robot for facility guidance during smart open-campus activities.
- Both trial periods are scheduled to continue until around February under the prefecture’s programme to make robots accessible to residents and support facility staff.
Leju and Zhaofeng report 15 humanoids in routine automotive-parts loading
- The loading configuration covers 15 workstations and more than 10 part types, including components with 80–120 mm inner diameters; reported loading success is 98%.
- A loading cycle takes under 40 seconds, compared with about 15 seconds for a worker at the same station.
- The operating history spans over two months without a fault, about 1,000 operating hours and more than 60,000 assisted components.
Preferred Robotics deploys Kachaka Pro at SUBARU’s Oizumi plant
- Workers trigger trips with a dedicated physical Kachaka button.
- The former manual workflow moved roughly two kilograms over about 130 metres per round trip, three times a day.
- Preferred Robotics reports that the automation frees approximately one hour per day for production work.
Suzumo S-Cube operates aboard Tokyo’s SUSHI BUS
- The double-decker bus prepares sushi downstairs and serves passengers on a conveyor-belt lane upstairs while touring Tokyo.
- S-Cube shapes 16g rice portions in the confined onboard kitchen, supporting a small operating team.
- Bus operations began on 10 October; the 14 October release reports an installation of the existing robot.
Waymo expands public access and adds San Antonio airport rides
- Anyone can download the Waymo app and request a ride in the three cities.
- The cities’ services had already carried hundreds of thousands of riders since opening earlier in the year.
- San Antonio International Airport trips add a new airport option for local riders and visitors.
Waabi discloses recurring autonomous freight operations with Warrior Logistics
- Shipments span food and beverage, consumer goods and other customer freight categories.
- The partners report 100% on-time pickup and delivery and zero safety incidents across completed routes.
- They plan to identify additional strategic lanes across Warrior’s network over the coming year.
Pony.ai, Uber and Verne begin robotaxi testing in Manchester
- Pony.ai supplies autonomous-driving technology, Uber connects to riders, and Verne provides the operating framework.
- The Manchester tests extend a collaboration that has already operated in Zagreb.
- Transport for Greater Manchester said no applications to operate driverless taxis in the area had yet been made.
Serim Robotics supplies Dusti sweeper to LG warehouse
- The site shares floor space with moving goods, forklifts and workers.
- The sweeper combines LiDAR SLAM, visual localisation, depth sensors and AI cameras for navigation and obstacle responses.
- Twin disc brushes and a 35-litre collection bin handle debris across the warehouse floor.
DJI Dock 2 supports Skyports BVLOS surveys at HumeLink West
- A permanently deployed DJI Dock2 conducts surveys every two weeks, supervised from Lane Cove more than350 km away.
- The programme follows a12-month EVLOS survey campaign and uses CASA broad-area BVLOS approval.
- DroneDeploy processes flight data into2D and3D site models for construction monitoring.
ASD reports Aibao retail use across 100 stores
- Store sales during the campaign were 39% higher than a year earlier.
- An unmanned retail warehouse also began operating on September 28; further warehouse expansion remained planned.
Serim Robotics deploys industrial cleaning robots at GS E&C and POSCO E&C sites
- The machines clean large concrete floors where construction dust and debris accumulate repeatedly.
- Sensors and autonomous navigation guide the robots through assigned work areas as site layouts and traffic change.
- Serim supports model selection and operations according to each site’s floor area, working environment and routes.
deliverz.ai expands Sheba robot deliveries to blood and bone marrow
- Bone-marrow specimens move from hematology to the laboratory, and donated blood moves from the donation centre to the blood bank.
- The robot-agnostic orchestration platform coordinates autonomous robots and human transport teams across hospital departments.
- The wider Sheba deployment has completed thousands of indoor and outdoor delivery missions.
Intelic expands Nexus rollout for counter-drone operations in Ukraine
- Intelic has established a Kyiv office to support Ukrainian forces and their mixed fleets.
- A late-September Dutch demonstration combined radar detection, AI verification and an interceptor drone through one control panel.
- A human authorised interceptor launch in the demonstration; the system's CEO described full autonomy as a potential mode.
Kodiak AI launches Dallas–Laredo freight service with Charger USA
- The first delivery between Charger's Dallas and Laredo terminals took place on September 8, 2026.
- The companies intend to remove the safety driver after Kodiak completes the route's safety case.
- Consumer packaged goods and food-and-beverage shipments are the initial cargo, with additional Charger lanes under consideration.
Sereact robots enter live Zalando returns operations with CEVA
- The two operating sites are Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland.
- Robots grasp, identify and sort unfamiliar items without article-specific training or fixed SKU profiles.
- The Robotics-as-a-Service model leaves station supervision, exceptions and quality control with warehouse teams.
August Robotics and DEWALT report DALE passing 385,000 drilled holes
- The pilot covered 44 construction phases, with drilling accuracy above 99%.
- Pilot results include drilling speeds up to ten times conventional methods and more than 300 weeks of combined schedule savings.
- DALE uses August Robotics' fleet-ready platform to drill for server-rack stops and mechanical, electrical and plumbing supports.
Auve Tech demonstrates airport service without an onboard safety operator
- The airside service covers approximately 1,000 kilometres per week with a company-reported average autonomy rate of 99.9%.
- Commercial operations began in 2025, after testing from 2023; authorization to remove the onboard safety operator was granted in August 2026.
- One remote supervisor can monitor several shuttles and intervene when needed while the vehicles connect Magnetic MRO hangars.
Advanced Smart Mobility begins Level 2 bus trial in Hachioji
- A short-wheelbase Hino Poncho runs one to two services per hour on designated days through December 25; a university-route extension is planned from January 2027.
- Joint work with Tokyo University of Technology uses the SEIRAN supercomputer to improve AI perception and driving control.
- The programme targets Level 4 implementation in FY2027 and driverless commercial operation after an operating permit planned for May 2028.
Exotec reports First Supply Skypod operating results
- Exotec reports picking speeds ten times those of manual processes and more than 14,000 SKUs handled within the system.
- The warehouse design allows fourfold storage growth within the racking footprint and retains 30% room for further hardware expansion.
- Next-day demand can account for as much as 20% of the distribution center’s daily volume.
Einride trucks enter daily driverless freight service with EASE in Ohio
- Two cabless Level 4 trucks use EASE property and local public roads, with an off-site operator monitoring each vehicle.
- Operations began in September and are collecting safety, reliability and efficiency data for the Ohio–Indiana Truck Automation Corridor project.
- Miles, loads and uptime from the service will inform the next deployment phase and potential regional expansion.
Volvo and Waabi start Warp customer freight operations between Dallas and Houston
- The service brings autonomous capacity into Warp’s less-than-truckload and full-truckload network.
- Volvo’s Autona / freight ecosystem combines vehicles, driving software, fleet management, terminals, operations and uptime support.
- Experience from the Dallas–Houston corridor will inform preparation for additional routes.
SKYY Network starts Bali drone-delivery pilot with Grab and Nuanu
- A2Z Drone Delivery supplies the aircraft; SKYY manages aviation technology, regulatory work and flight operations.
- Customers order through Grab, trained staff operate the drones and Grab driver-partners support final-mile delivery.
- Flights use a selected route in controlled airspace near Ngurah Rai airport, with live position and traffic information shared through SkyyOS.
Deep Robotics tests DR02 at Hangzhou holiday sites
- The tests included tourist guidance at Xixi Wetland and traffic-direction work near busy West Lake-area junctions.
- Robots answered questions and gave reminders about helmets, overloading and line-crossing while the company evaluated performance in rain and crowds.
Geek+ expands LPP deployment across two Polish fulfilment centres
- The installation uses warehouse height up to around 12 metres.
- Human staff concentrate on monitoring, exception handling and robotics troubleshooting.
- Robot capacity, workstations and throughput can expand with seasonal peaks and changing storage requirements.
Dash and Daisy begin deliveries at HCA Florida JFK Hospital
- The robots move between floors through integrated elevators and authorised secure doors.
- Secure compartments serve areas including those without pneumatic-tube access.
- The integration includes fire and life-safety systems and hospital IT without major construction or physical tracks.
LG Innotek begins Korean public-road autonomy sensor fleet
- The vehicles are intended to collect real-world sensor data mainly in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi.
- The data supports Applied Intuition digital-twin validation and LG Innotek sensor-fusion development.
- LG Innotek targets approximately 20 data-collection and autonomy-development vehicles by 2028.
Zeabuz Virtual Cable Ferry enters operation on Åland’s Simskäla route
- Commissioning proceeded without interrupting the ferry’s regular operations.
- A single button starts a crossing, with the system managing navigation for consistent timing and energy use.
- Current regulations still require the physical cable; future cable-free operations depend on regulatory changes.
Flexport introduces operating robotic fulfillment centre near Chicago
- The goods-to-person operation brings inventory to workers during order preparation.
- Flexport lists 250,000 storage bins at the Pleasant Prairie facility.
- The company describes robotics as a new part of its fulfillment network alongside its logistics software and services.
Cuebus announces CUEBUS backroom pilot with Nitori
- The pilot will evaluate high-density storage and the time needed to store, locate and retrieve merchandise in an existing store backroom.
- Nitori and Cuebus will assess worker workload, safety and compatibility with current store operations.
- CUEBUS uses linear-motor transport and three-dimensional storage without aisles to bring selected merchandise to a designated location.
AgiBot reports 100 X2 robots serving ASD stores
- The three-day September 28–30 retail programme included livestreams from Wenzhou, Shanghai and Wuxi.
- Robots assisted reception, product explanation and recommendations; human staff handled discounts, stock checks and final transactions.
- Subsequent ASD reporting described 100 participating stores across 63 cities and a 39% year-on-year sales increase during the campaign.
FlyingBasket scales FB3 hut resupply into scheduled seasonal service
- The programme recorded 189 flights across 32 operations, compared with 21 flights during the 2025 trial.
- FB3 aircraft carried 7,078 kilograms uphill and returned 1,491 kilograms of waste, equipment and luggage to the valley.
- Routes extended beyond 10 kilometres and climbed as much as 1,500 metres in variable Alpine weather and low-density air.
Refined Robotics begins two-legged parcel-delivery trial with Evri in Barnsley
- The trial platform carries parcels up to 15 kg and travels at up to 6 km/h.
- It can operate autonomously or under remote control and is being evaluated as support for couriers.
- The trial will assess how the system fits into existing parcel delivery networks.