AI Supply Chain BriefAI-guided warehouse picking robots: real AI examples and a starter prompt
Autonomous mobile robots navigate the warehouse with AI and bring work to pickers, raising picks per hour and cutting walking time.
Real-world examples
DHL Supply Chain
Passed 500 million picks with LocusBot robots across more than 35 sites; the last 100 million took 154 days.
Source: DHL Delivered
GXO
Reports about 2x productivity from collaborative picking robots and 4–5x from goods-to-person systems.
Source: GXO robotics page
Tools
Free or low-cost options first, then enterprise platforms.
- General-purpose AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot; free tiers) for slotting and labor analysis
- Locus Robotics
- Geek+
- AutoStore
- Symbotic
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