Robot deployments in factories and warehouses

Spanish metal manufacturer Oliva Torras runs MIG/MAG welding and automated polishing of medium-sized parts on a UR20 cobot with automatic tool change.

Stated result Productivity up by up to 50%

Boston Dynamics opened a testbed and training center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America where Atlas humanoid robots are trained on logistics and sequencing of automotive parts.

Mariana Minerals is deploying Spot at its Copper One copper facility in Utah to automate routine inspections and collect field data for its operations software.

Powder coater Assars automated coating touch-ups with a UR20 cobot, using application engineering from Nordbo and software from Mimic.

Stated result Material consumption down about 25%

In a pilot completed in 2025, Figure 02 humanoid robots inserted sheet-metal parts for welding in the body shop at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg.

Stated result Supported the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over ten months.

BMW Group will start using Figure 03 humanoid robots at Plant Spartanburg for a logistics sequencing use case: sorting delivered components into sequencing trolleys.

Catalyst Brands and Figure AI announced a commercial partnership starting at the Reno, Nevada Distribution Logistics Center, where humanoids will first support pouch sorting system sequencing.

GSI Ceramica runs 40 KUKA KR QUANTEC and KR IONTEC robots in the casting, finishing, glazing and internal transport departments of its sanitaryware factory.

Emerson's measurement instrumentation production facility uses UR10e cobots for kitting, thread tapping and O-ring handling.

Stated result Cycle times reduced by 18–22%; ergonomic exposure down more than 60%

A fleet of 22 KUKA KMP 1500P autonomous mobile robots moves TV panels and components between the warehouse and ten assembly lines at the Gorzów Wielkopolski TV plant.

At MAB Möbel in Muotathal, a HOMAG robot cell uses a 3D laser scanner and MVTec HALCON to pick wooden workpieces from a chaotic stack and load a CNC machining center.

Kari-Out runs Formic robotic palletizers under a robots-as-a-service contract at its Totowa, New Jersey, plant and has ordered 6 more identical palletizing robots.

Stated result 25% increase in output and 100% uptime since deployment

Gupta Permold runs a robotic beam-sanding cell with a FANUC robot, 3D vision and AI guidance, built by Premier Automation with PushCorp, across all three shifts.

Stated result productivity up by a minimum of 60%

After a year-long pilot, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada signed a Robots-as-a-Service agreement for seven Digit humanoids to load and unload parts totes on a tugger at its Woodstock plant.

Sheet metal fabricator Fu Zhuan Steel uses a UR12e cobot for laser welding in small-batch, high-mix production.

Stated result Operator learning time cut from one month to one day

Cosmetics maker Mandom built an unmanned production line for trial product bottles in-house around UR3e, UR5e and UR10e cobots.

Stated result About 40,000 to 50,000 trial product bottles per month, previously outsourced, now made in-house

Illinois contract manufacturer MattPak deployed three Formic palletizing systems under a robots-as-a-service contract and is adding automated case packing on one line.

Xiang Piao Piao runs ABB FlexPicker IRB 360 robots with AI-based vision and PickMaster Twin digital twin software to pick and place milk tea ingredients at its Huzhou, Chengdu and Tianjin factories.

Stated result Line efficiency up 40 percent; picking speed up 15 percent

Aker Solutions, Aker BP and Cognite completed an offshore pilot of a Taurob Inspector robot on the Edvard Grieg platform, with inspection data contextualized in Cognite Data Fusion.

Marquis deployed two Formic automated palletizing systems at its industrial complex in central Illinois to stack cases of ethanol-based consumer products.

Stated result labor costs reduced by roughly 40% compared with manual staffing

Fruit cooperative OP Kiwi Sole seals pear stems with wax on a line built by Conkreta Robotics: computer vision locates each stem and ABB GoFa cobots follow an AI-calculated dispensing trajectory.

Mercado Libre and Agility Robotics announced a commercial agreement to bring the Digit humanoid robot into Mercado Libre's facility in San Antonio, Texas, for fulfillment tasks.

Masters Gallery Foods moved its California cheese packaging facility from manual to automated palletizing with a Formic system paid for at a fixed monthly rate.

Lidl plans to deploy 22 Stretch robots by mid-2026 to unload floor-loaded cases from containers at import warehouses in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Spain, after a test phase.

A camera-guided UR cobot cell built by integrator Archytas Robotics feeds small medical parts such as dental implants to a laser marking machine, running day and night.

Stated result Up to 30,000 parts engraved per month; productivity gain of around 50%

Digit humanoid robots move totes between AMRs and conveyors and stack them at the GXO Logistics facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia.

Stated result More than 100,000 totes moved.

Utah candy maker Taffy Town runs a Formic robotic palletizer at the end of its line, its first end-of-line automation.

Stated result 5.5 million pounds of taffy handled, more than 279,000 cases stacked

Steelmaker USIMINAS marks metal coils with paint, text and QR codes using a UR10e cobot, after proof-of-concept and pilot tests.

Stated result Annual paint savings of R$130,000; more than 100,000 coils marked

Westburg Greenhouse in the Netherlands deployed a fleet of Four Growers GR-200 harvesting robots, built on FANUC LR Mate arms with AI vision, to pick grape and cherry tomatoes.

The Mercedes-Benz factory in Juiz de Fora applies glue to stringers with a UR10e cobot on its production line.

Stated result Reduced rework and production delays

Mariani installed a Formic robotic palletizing workcell at the end of a packaging line in its Vacaville, California, dried fruit plant, its first robotic automation.

At its Werlte plant, KRONE uses KUKA KMP 1500P autonomous mobile robots to deliver compressed air tanks to welding cells where KUKA handling and welding robots process them.

In the greenfield factory in Ibbenbüren, built by KRONE subsidiary GTS, nine KUKA welding and handling robots work with autonomous mobile robots to make welded assemblies for agricultural machinery.

Saddle Creek uses Anyware Robotics' Pixmo, an AI-powered mobile box-handling robot built on a FANUC CRX cobot, to unload containers at its Modesto, California, hub.

Stated result dock injuries for unloading down to zero; more than 1,700,000 pounds picked

Lakeside Book Company depalletizes mixed cases at its fulfillment center with a FANUC R-2000iC robot, FANUC 3DV vision camera and AI Box Locator software, built by APT and FlexPAC.

Stated result more than nine cases per minute; 45 million pounds of manual lifting removed annually

Boxed Water chose Formic automated palletizers for the end of its line in Holland, Michigan, to replace manual stacking of 28-pound cases.

Formetal uses KUKA autonomous mobile robots, coordinated by KUKA.AMR Fleet software, to bring furniture panels to a KUKA robotic palletizer that builds mixed-product pallets.

Stated result Pallet cycle time cut from ten to seven minutes

backaldrin replaced a more than 30-year-old palletizing system for canisters of baking agents at its Asten site with a KUKA KR IONTEC robot.

Equinor runs inspection and water-sampling robots as a pilot at its Sture oil terminal and Mongstad refinery; robot data is streamed to Cognite Data Fusion and analyzed for anomalies.

Stated result Spot robot has run more than 1000 autonomous inspection rounds

Stove maker HASE welds unfinished stoves with two KUKA KR CYBERTECH nano robots on a linear unit and programs every welding sequence offline on a digital twin in KUKA.Sim.

Rumiano Cheese selected Formic to automate palletizing at its packaging plant in Willows, California, under a no-upfront-cost service model.

Gap Inc. uses Stretch robots to unload boxes from trailers at its distribution centers, including the Gallatin, Tennessee site.

Stated result One or two people in inbound can process 10,000 cases in a day, a task that took 12 to 15 people before automation.

In a pilot project, a Digit humanoid robot has been loading and unloading a washing machine at the Schaeffler plant in Cheraw, South Carolina, since the beginning of 2025.

Formic deployed five gantry-style palletizing robots at Land O'Frost's Lansing, Illinois, meat plant under its palletizer rental program.

Stated result 20% saving on daily labor-related operating expenses

Life Line Emergency Vehicles sands ambulance truck bodies with a GrayMatter Robotics AI cell built on a single FANUC M-710 series robot arm.

Stated result gains of 30-40% in production times

Nature Fresh Farms harvests greenhouse tomatoes with a Four Growers system that pairs a FANUC LR Mate robot with AI that detects ripeness and plans the picking path.

Performance Composites sands fiberglass and composite transport parts with a FANUC CRX cobot running GrayMatter Robotics' AI surface-finishing software.

Stated result 90-95% of sanding dust removed; operators trained in 1 day

A Mujin robotic palletizer with 3D vision builds mixed-SKU pallets on the fly at the Planet Saitama distribution center, placing boxes on pallets positioned by AMRs.

Sango runs a finished goods warehouse inside its factory with two Mujin depalletizing robots and 18 AGVs under one MujinOS control platform, handling automotive components.

Stated result Manual logistics labor down 67%; about 2,080 truck journeys per year eliminated

Toyota Boshoku automated finished goods storage and transport in its manufacturing facility with MujinOS, combining robotic palletizing, seven AGVs and a digital twin.

Stated result Deployed in approximately six months

Tepco automated high-mix case picking and order fulfillment with MujinOS, which coordinates robotic mixed-case palletizing and a fleet of 17 AGVs.

At its Osaka logistics center, FANCL uses MujinOS-powered piece-picking robots with 3D vision for mixed-SKU picking, sorting and six-side barcode scanning.

Kyowa Shiko uses a Mujin depalletizing robot with MujinVision3D to unload mixed-load pallets without SKU registration or robot teaching.

Stated result Shipping efficiency up 70%

LOGISTEED uses MujinOS-powered piece-picking robots with 3D vision and barcode verification for the secondary sorting of pharmaceutical products.

Privatmolkerei Bauer palletizes open trays of yogurt pouch bags with a Yaskawa cobot in a fenceless Profipack palletizing system, in use since January 2026.

Stated result cycle time of 20 seconds per tray

Chocolate maker Alfred Ritter uses four fenceless Bayer PLT HC palletizing systems, each built around a Yaskawa HC-series cobot, at its Reichenbach logistics hub.

Weißer + Grießhaber produces radar radomes in Mönchweiler on an injection moulding cell from EGS Automation where Yaskawa six-axis robots automate the complete handling process.

At its Telfs plant, Liebherr builds bulldozer track roller frames in an autonomous manufacturing cell from Yaskawa with three Motoman robots that handle and weld the parts.

HMT automated loading and unloading of its MiniTec industrial parts cleaning system in St. Georgen with eight Yaskawa Motoman GP12 robots.

At HydraSpecma's Våxtorp plant, two Yaskawa Motoman HC cobots pick parts next to operators, with cameras above the conveyors selecting the picking job.

Stated result assembly productivity up 17%; about 3500 parts picked daily

Chroff Kunststofftechnik sorts randomly placed injection-molded parts into containers with an FMB handling system: a Yaskawa GP12 robot guided by a Keyence AI camera.

Medical device maker WaveLight uses a Pinger Robotic cell with four Yaskawa Motoman GP robots to load a camera-based tester and pack applanation cones into blisters.

Bäckerei Görtz in Ludwigshafen uses an ADM system with four Yaskawa Motoman GP180 robots to move baking sheets of frozen dough into trolleys, running since November 2024.

Mi Rancho uses six Formic robotic palletizers, collaborative units on its tortilla lines and an industrial unit on its chip line, at its Elk Grove plant.

Electrical motor distributor Brd. Klee uses an OMRON LD250 autonomous mobile robot serving 10 carts to move goods from the warehouse to the shipment area.

SolarEdge e-Mobility uses OMRON autonomous mobile robots in a FasThink solution to bring materials from the warehouse to production lines at its Umbertide facility.

Chip manufacturer Polar Semiconductor added OMRON LD 60/90 mobile robots to move work-in-progress between tools in its facility.

Unilever's Knorr plant in Heilbronn rented two Bayer palletizing cobots built on Yaskawa arms for one week in spring 2023 while a palletizing station was shut down.

Grupo Antolin uses OMRON autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots to load and transport car interior components from the injection area to the assembly area at its Aragusa plant in Burgos.