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Inside the Autonomous Warehouse
Three generations of warehouse automation in a decade. The hardware is almost secondary now. It's the software doing the heavy lifting.
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Three generations of warehouse automation in a decade. The hardware is almost secondary now. It's the software doing the heavy lifting.
Smart carts, autonomous checkout, computer vision for shelf intelligence, inventory robots. All have had conference moments. In early 2026, some are scaling. Some are quietly struggling to find their use case outside the pilot environment. The UK high street has a specific lens on this.
RTS 2025 moved to ExCeL London and brought something new with it: not more AI, but better AI. More deployment stories, fewer demos, and a sharper, more honest conversation about where the value actually sits.