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Following a visit to LogiMAT 2023 in Stuttgart, Germany it became clear that the Cube Storage sector, pioneered by AutoStore in the 1990's, has become increasingly attractive to many different companies. There appeared to be an influx of startups and legacy companies targeting the Cube Storage sector and some of the people we talked to confirmed this impression from the April trade show. Most of these vendors are European, mainly from Germany and Netherlands. Note also that these companies targeted the Cube Storage space from a variety of angles, i.e. for storage or for transportation, etc. Volume Lagertechnik had developed a robot with...

A review of Promat 2023, warehouse automation and material handling trade show held in Chicago bi-annually.

Fabulous attendance at the STIQ Robotics #4 networking event. Eight presentations with robot exhibits.

SoftBank involved in yet another robotics M&A transaction, this time via minority share in Germany robotics company URG.

ARE WE FINALLY BACK TO NORMAL? The 2022 NRF show was a dud with plenty of exhibitor + visitor cancellations due to Covid restrictions. This year's edition was pretty much back to normal and visitor numbers felt as if they hit pre-pandemic levels. Yours truly in front of the entrance hall at Javits Center (picture from the new wing). Filling up pretty quick down there. The perspective is probably a bit deceptive (or my camera is bad), but there was no shortage of attendees for sure. A LACK OF INNOVATIVE IDEAS/CONCEPTS Our immediate impression of the show was a certain lack of...