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This section provides an overview for robot pickings as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 33 robot picking manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked robot picking companies as of January, 2025: 1.Locus Robotics, 2.RightHand Robotics, Inc., 3.Honeywell International Inc.
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Robot picking employs robots to automate the picking process in warehouses and factories.
This method streamlines the retrieval of goods or parts for further processing, such as inspection or packaging, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
Simple systems involve workers placing items on robots for transport, while more advanced setups feature robots independently executing the entire picking process.
Robot picking is increasingly adopted in large-scale distribution and e-commerce shipping warehouses to address rapid demand growth. It's critical in the manufacturing, logistics, and retail sectors, offering solutions to labor shortages by improving efficiency and reducing errors.
Logistics robots or transport robots designed for robot picking are equipped with cameras, robot arms, and control systems to identify, grasp, and move products efficiently.
Cameras and laser sensors identify the position and shape of products, facilitating targeted picking.
Equipped with suction or chuck grippers, the robot arm securely handles items.
A sophisticated control system navigates the robot, avoiding obstacles within the warehouse environment.
Robot picking enhances work efficiency and space utilization by eliminating worker aisles, though it requires significant initial investment and workflow adjustments. Manual intervention is necessary if robots encounter issues.
Diverse robots support robot picking, including AGVs, AMRs, GTPs, and piece-picking robots, each offering unique advantages and capabilities.
AGVs, or unmanned transport robots, follow designated paths, supporting but not performing the picking process directly.
AMRs navigate optimally and autonomously, enhancing efficiency when operating in coordinated groups.
GTP robots bring shelves to workers, streamlining the picking process by reducing worker movement.
Using AI and machine learning, piece-picking robots identify and pick individual items, further automating the picking process when integrated with AGVs or AMRs.
*Including some distributors, etc.
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Honeywell International Inc. was founded in 1885 and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Honeywell is a diversified technology and manufacturing company to global customers in many industries such as aerospace, building technologies, performance materials, manufacturing, and safety. Honeywell produces hardware and software solutions for each industry it serves. In building technologies, Honeywell designs access controls, electrical and wiring, fire life safety, and employee training services. In aerospace, Honeywell designs cockpit systems and displays, engines, cabin management and cleaning, and health and usage monitoring.
Locus Robotics, founded in 2014 by Bruce Welty and located in Ballardvale St, Wilmington, MA, is a manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots for warehouse operations and e-commerce fields. The company produces robots for directed picking, PSP transport, Mezzanine Management, deployment, and putaway delivery. The robots are applied in 3PL automation, retail, healthcare, industrial, and manufacturing industries. The company offers detailed rapid assessment and design services with Return on Investment (ROI) analysis and deployment plans.
RightHand Robotics, Inc. was established in 2015 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts as a manufacturer and supplier of robotic piece-picking solutions for order fulfillment. The company’s product portfolio includes RightPick, an intelligent picking platform that combines computer visialisation, AI, and grasping technology. The products are used in various industries, such as e-commerce, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and 3PL fulfillment. The products are crucial components in supply chain automation, enabling flexible and scalable performance. The company also provides product design, installation, and maintenance services.
Dematic established in 1819 is a global supplier of advanced integrated supply chain automation and software solutions for warehouse and distribution environments. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The global team at Dematic is available to assist customers in achieving their targets. With their solutions, industry knowledge, and practical experience, Dematic's team is equipped to help businesses overcome any obstacles they may face. With over 20 decades of experience, the organization has demonstrated success in effectively addressing a various of supply chain challenges.
Karter, a subsidiary of Weighpack International, is a manufacturer based in The Hague, The Netherlands, specializing in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). The company’s AMR models are designed to transport pallets weighing up to 1,500 kilograms, lift pallets to heights of 500 millimeters, and handle an array of loads. These robots are equipped with safety laser scanners to prevent collisions in crowded indoor spaces and narrow aisles. The company's software also integrates seamlessly with various enterprise resource planning (ERP) and warehouse management systems.
Kivnon, founded in Spain in 2007, is a manufacturer specializing in automation and mobile robotics. It designs, manufactures, and implements automated guided vehicles (AGVs and AMRs). The company offers a wide range of AGVs and AMRs that can be customized to automate any type of application in any industry, as well as designing all the tools and accessories that AGVs and AMRs require, such as shooter loading stations, battery chargers, and fleet managers, for clients in the automotive, pharmaceutical, and logistics industries.
Daifuku Co., Ltd., established in 1937, is a Japanese manufacturer headquartered in Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, specializing in automated material handling solutions. The company’s product lineup encompasses intralogistics solutions, including automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), conveyors and sorters, as well as picking and vehicle systems. The company also offers cleanroom automated material handling systems (AMHSs) for semiconductor and flat panel manufacturing environments. In the automotive sector, it provides automated systems, including chainless conveyor systems, equipment for electric vehicle (EV) battery mounting, and monorail systems. The company also supplies products for applications in airports, car wash facilities, columbaria, and wireless power supply systems.
FANUC Corporation, established in 1972 and headquartered in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, is a manufacturer of factory automation, robomachine, IoT, and robotics. The company offers an extensive and diversified product portfolio including, servomotor, robodrill small cutting machine, roboshot electric injection molding machine, robocut wire electrical discharge machine, and lasers. These cutting-edge products cater to a wide range of industries, spanning from automotive, health care, and aerospace to electronics. The aim of the company is to provide efficient and low-cost products to customers.
KUKA AG was founded in 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. The company is a subsidiary of GD Midea Holding Co., Ltd. and is an automation developer, designing and manufacturing robot-based automation solutions for medical, automotive, warehousing, and distribution industries. The company’s product segments include robot systems, production machines, and systems, mobility as a driver of Industry 4.0, and process technologies that provide special welding processes to factories. The company’s services include repair and servicing for robots and machines and engineering services for designing and programming robotic systems.
Fetch Robotics, Inc. is based in San Jose, California, and is an American manufacturer of collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that was originally founded in 2014 before being acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2021. The company produces automated robotic solutions for industrial applications such as raw material delivery, case/box or pallet picking, receiving, and end-of-the-line handling operations. These are designed to maximize facility efficiency and productivity, as well as minimize safety risks and counter worker shortage issues. The company's products are primarily used in warehouses and manufacturing plants, but also have applications in the OEM and product distribution industries.
Mujin Inc. founded in July 2011 by Ross Diankov and Issei Takino and headquartered in the robotics hub of Tokyo, Japan is a logistics robot manufacturer. The company’s product portfolio features robots for automating various aspects of warehouse operations such as MujinController, QuickBot Depalletizer, and TruckBot. While garnering awards from the international robotics and automation industry, the company has expanded its operations in China and the USA. The core operations performed by the company’s robots include palletizing, depalletizing, and piecepicking.
Robotnik, a company established in 2002, based in Valencia, Spain, is a manufacturer and supplier of autonomous mobile robots and mobile manipulators. The company provides advanced product solutions for various industrial applications such as logistics, inspection, security, agriculture, and research. It has a range of products such as RB-KAIROS+, RB-ROBOUT, RB-1 BASE, and RB-VULCANO. These products are designed to operate in indoor and outdoor environments, with quality, reliability, and safety. It also offers technical support, catalog request, and customized services. It is currently a reference company in mobile robotics globally.
SSI SCHAEFER Group, founded in 1937 and headquartered in Neunkirchen, NRW, Germany, is a manufacturer and supplier of intralogistics solutions. The company's product range includes warehousing solutions, logistics software, conveying and picking systems, and warehouse shuttles. These products are designed for tasks such as streamlining storage, optimizing picking processes, and enhancing transport efficiency. Serving industries like transportation, logistics, supply chain, and storage, the company ensures operational efficiency. The company's services include software portfolio management, material flow control, real-time analysis, and intelligent data processing and optimization.
Toshiba has nearly a century-and-a-half-long history of pioneering the development of electrical equipment in Japan, providing customers with products and services such as energy systems and solutions and infrastructure systems and solutions. With a focus on digital technologies, Toshiba boasts cutting-edge products in semiconductors, barcode printers, and rechargeable Lithium-ion battery cells, modules, and industrial pack series. With arms in business, R & D, AI, sustainability, and digital solutions, Toshiba and its people evolve with the times, ensuring its continuing ability to solve ever-changing social issues through constant change. By utilizing the knowledge that Toshiba has amassed across numerous business domains, along with cutting-edge technologies like IoT, AI, and quantum related technologies, they have created digital solutions that provide our customers with new value and services
Vanderlande Industries B.V., established in 1949 and based in Veghel, Netherlands, is a manufacturer and supplier of logistic process automation solutions. The company's product range includes baggage handling systems, warehouse automation solutions, parcel handling systems, intelligent software, and life-cycle services. These products are used for optimizing logistics processes, sorting and managing baggage, streamlining warehousing tasks, and automating parcel delivery. The company serves industries such as e-commerce, food retail, fashion retail, and airports. The company also offers services like project management, software development, solution provision, and data solutions.
Kardex, established in 1898 and based in the EMEA region, is a manufacturer and supplier of intralogistics solutions. The company's product range includes dynamic storage and retrieval systems, integrated materials handling systems, automated high-bay warehouses, and tailored storage solutions. These state-of-the-art systems serves industries focusing on automation, warehouse management, and storage optimization. Specifically, the company serves sectors keen on implementing automation, intralogistics, warehouse solutions, and warehouse management. The company's services such as initial assessment of customer requirements, planning and realization, maintenance, and life cycle management of the systems.
Knapp Logistics & Automation, established in 1952 and based in Hart bei Graz, Austria, is a manufacturer and supplier of intelligent automation solutions. The company's product range includes warehouse automation, automated storage and retrieval systems, picking systems, container handling technology, shuttle technology (OSR Shuttle), and automatic guided vehicles. Serving diverse sectors such as healthcare, fashion/apparel, general retail, food retail, industry, and service, these products optimize and streamline intralogistics operations. The company's services include the complete lifecycle of solutions, from design and installation to maintenance and support.
Yaskawa Motoman, founded in 1989, is a manufacturing company which offers industrial automation and robotics solutions in the Americas. With more than 540,000 industrial robots, 18 million servos and 30 million inverter drives installed globally, the company provides automation products and solutions for virtually every industry and robotic application including arc welding, assembly, packaging, dispensing and more. Their product line includes more than 150 distinct industrial arm, a full-line of pre-engineered "World" solutions that are complete application-specific robotic systems that include robot, process and safety equipment. They are backed by a powerful parent, Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan.
Brightpick, founded in 2021 and a subsidiary of Photoneo Brightpick Group, is an American supplier headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, specializing in AI-powered robots. The company's product portfolio includes solutions for grocers, retail, and third-party logistics (3PLs). These solutions are employed in warehouses to automate tasks such as order picking, consolidation, dispatch, and replenishment. Notably, the company's flagship product, an AI-powered picking robot, enhances warehouse operations by autonomously identifying and retrieving items from shelves. The robots are integrated with machine learning algorithms to help in sorting and packaging, which reduces human errors in warehousing, manufacturing, and logistic industries.
Ranking as of January 2025
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Locus Robotics |
9.5%
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| 2 | Kardex |
8.1%
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| 3 | RightHand Robotics, Inc. |
5.4%
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| 4 | Honeywell International Inc |
5.4%
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| 5 | Prime Robotics |
4.7%
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| 6 | KPI Solutions. |
4.7%
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| 7 | Karter AMRs |
4.1%
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| 8 | Dematic |
4.1%
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| 9 | SEER Robotics Europe GmbH. |
3.4%
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| 10 | Berkshire Grey, Inc. |
3.4%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the robot picking page as of January 2025. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
Newly Established Company
Company with a History
*Including some distributors, etc.
*Including some distributors, etc.
| Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
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United States of America
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10 | 40.0% |
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Japan
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4 | 16.0% |
China
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3 | 12.0% |
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Netherlands
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2 | 8.0% |
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Spain
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2 | 8.0% |
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Germany
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1 | 4.0% |
Switzerland
|
1 | 4.0% |
Israel
|
1 | 4.0% |
Singapore
|
1 | 4.0% |
35 products found
35 products
Suzuno Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
730+ people viewing
Last viewed: 11 hours ago
Very Fast Response
A flexible parts feeder that can handle a wide variety of products and is specialized for robot picking. By combining various industrial robots and...
3 models listed
Sumitomo Corporation Machinex Co., Ltd.
420+ people viewing
Last viewed: 2 hours ago
Standard Response
■What is a collaborative robot? Collaborative robots are robots that can work together with humans. Collaborative robots, which have functions such...
4 models listed
Sumitomo Corporation Machinex Co., Ltd.
320+ people viewing
Last viewed: 2 hours ago
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■What is a collaborative robot? Collaborative robots are robots that can work together with humans. Features of collaborative robots ■Super Safe -...
4 models listed
Double Giken Co., Ltd.
90+ people viewing
Last viewed: 5 hours ago
Standard Response
■``D-Vision'' uses various cameras to pick the target workpiece. We will utilize the latest digital transformation and DX at your production site t...
Sanmei Co., Ltd.
90+ people viewing
Last viewed: 18 hours ago
5.0 Company Review
High productivity ■Productivity is improved with the fastest transfer speed in its class, maximum operating range, and high-density arrangement wit...
![[Robot picking] Vision picking feeder “SVF series”/Suzuno Seisakusho-Daiki Sangyo Co., Ltd.](https://metoree.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/img/products-new/3002589202405138.png)
Daiki Sangyo Co., Ltd.
230+ people viewing
Last viewed: 1 hour ago
Standard Response
■A stable supply of parts is always possible. 2560 types of motion can be registered and can be applied to a large number of parts. The "SVF series...
2 models listed
Youibot Robotics Co., Ltd.
80+ people viewing
Last viewed: 20 hours ago
A picking robot designed for transporting, sorting, picking, etc. of cargo, works autonomously and efficiently, reduces unnecessary travel for work...
Sanmei Co., Ltd.
70+ people viewing
Last viewed: 9 hours ago
5.0 Company Review
■High productivity Best-in-class operating speed allows you to convey more per hour. It has high precision and can operate continuously 24 hours a ...
Pacific System Co., Ltd.
70+ people viewing
Last viewed: 1 hour ago
We have added AI to our depalletizing vision concept. This reduces the rate of misrecognition of picking targets and contributes to improved operat...
Makitec Co., Ltd.
300+ people viewing
Last viewed: 28 minutes ago
Fast Response
5.0 Company Review
2 models listed
JPNEXT Co., Ltd.
130+ people viewing
Last viewed: 1 hour ago
■Mobile lift unit ideal for picking work Portable vacuum lifter. Can be moved with a forklift or hand lift, saving labor and improving heavy labor ...
KUKA AG
4150+ people viewing
Last viewed: 2 hours ago
Flexible operability, intuitive operability, reliable LBR IISY when interacting with people is a collaborative robot corresponding to all productio...
KUKA AG
3400+ people viewing
Last viewed: 3 hours ago
Flexible operability, intuitive operability, reliable LBR IISY when interacting with people is a collaborative robot corresponding to all productio...
KUKA AG
3330+ people viewing
Last viewed: 9 hours ago
Flexible operability, intuitive operability, reliable LBR IISY when interacting with people is a collaborative robot corresponding to all productio...
KUKA AG
3740+ people viewing
Last viewed: 41 minutes ago
Flexible operability, intuitive operability, reliable LBR IISY when interacting with people is a collaborative robot corresponding to all productio...
KUKA AG
3980+ people viewing
Last viewed: 1 hour ago
Flexible operability, intuitive operability, reliable LBR IISY when interacting with people is a collaborative robot corresponding to all productio...
Sanmei Co., Ltd.
60+ people viewing
Last viewed: 18 hours ago
5.0 Company Review
■All-in-one functions necessary for bulk picking By directly controlling robots completely without teaching and at an overwhelmingly deep level, an...
Micro Technica Co., Ltd.
90+ people viewing
Last viewed: 19 hours ago
Very Fast Response
■Improved recognition accuracy by learning algorithm using DeepLearning. For image recognition of relatively small workpieces such as small boxes, ...
Micro Technica Co., Ltd.
110+ people viewing
Last viewed: 7 hours ago
Very Fast Response
■Intelligence to industrial robots. The Mech-Mind robot vision system is a next-generation robot vision system created by Mech-Mind Robotics, a com...
Micro Technica Co., Ltd.
90+ people viewing
Last viewed: 6 hours ago
Very Fast Response
■What is a robot picking cell? The robot picking cell is our original package cell that combines a robot, 3D vision unit, and vision system into on...
Sanmei Co., Ltd.
60+ people viewing
Last viewed: 28 minutes ago
5.0 Company Review
Features/benefits ■World's largest number of achievements We boast the world's largest operating track record, with over 20 robots operating at one...
Solomon Technology Corporation
250+ people viewing
Last viewed: 26 minutes ago
Accupick 2D greatly expands the range of robot applications with intelligent AI -based vision systems. Accupic 2D provides not only giving eyes to ...
Solomon Technology Corporation
270+ people viewing
Last viewed: 26 minutes ago
Accupic 3D is a product that represents a comprehensive cutting -edge robot picking solution for manufacturing and logistics industries. The Accupi...
Solomon Technology Corporation
630+ people viewing
Last viewed: 1 hour ago
META-AIVI (Meta-Ivi) can bring users with solutions such as improving operations efficiency, reducing mistakes on site, shortening working time. Th...
Solomon Technology Corporation
200+ people viewing
Last viewed: 26 minutes ago
SOLMOTION is a system that automatically recognizes the position of the object to be worked and allows robots to work accordingly. It is possible t...
