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STIQ visited Logis Tech Tokyo in Sep 2023. Logis Tech is a logistics and intralogistics trade show held annually in Tokyo, Japan. This is a review of the bi-annual Innovation Expo show with images and videos from the showfloors.

LogiMAT 2023, Stuttgart, Germany The 2023 LogiMAT show was very bustling and we had two people on call to talk to exhibitors and get them excited about our publications. One thing that stood out was this hall, an extension of Hall 2. In 2022, this hall was full of mobile robot companies (many moved to Hall 6 in 2023). Was this a case of fewer exhibitors? Pocket Sorters are popular in Europe. There were far less of these solutions at Promat in Chicago earlier in 2023.  Plenty of newcomers have been attracted to the Cube Storage space. However, not all of these solutions are...

A review of STIQRobotics May 10th, 2023 London meetup including video

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.