Skip to content
FAULTLINE

Sentrywell desk

Industry news

Reporting on distribution equipment, controls, and the software around them, drawn from public trade coverage. Warehouse automation has its own section below. Each note names the publication and links to the original. Faultline did not write those pieces.

Section

Warehouse automation

Robotics, goods-to-person, automated storage, and the conveyors that still tie those systems together. 14 notes, newest first.

Modern Materials Handling

More than half of surveyed buildings are already running a robot

Nov 1, 2026

The 2026 intralogistics robotics survey puts current robot use at 52 percent, with conveyors, sortation, and AS/RS still the wider automation set.

Modern Materials Handling

The 2026 outlook: caution now, more automation later

Oct 31, 2026

The magazine’s outlook survey says 38 percent of those investing are spending on conveyors and sortation, with longer-term budgets turning up.

Supply Chain Dive

An automated goods-to-person building opens in Lebanon, Indiana

Oct 30, 2026

Shein’s 737,000-square-foot Lebanon warehouse uses goods-to-person fulfillment, about a mile and a half from its other Indiana operation.

Modern Materials Handling

Robotic storage is adding reach, charge time, and new bots

Oct 29, 2026

A survey of robotic AS/RS designs covers AutoStore’s R5 Pro and Brightpick’s taller in-aisle picker, among shuttles and rack robots.

Material Handling & Logistics

Kardex uses vision to keep a bad bin out of the grid

Oct 27, 2026

BinInductAI checks AutoStore bins with computer vision before they enter the grid, including walls, pickup holes, and the barcode.

DC Velocity

GXO is taking Agility’s Digit into North Carolina and Tennessee

Oct 26, 2026

After moving more than 100,000 totes in Georgia, Digit is planned for e-commerce work in Statesville and Lebanon, starting in early 2027.

Modern Materials Handling

Conveyor is still the highway between the robots

Oct 24, 2026

An equipment report says fixed conveyor and sortation still set the pace, even in buildings that are adding mobile robots.

DC Velocity

Accenture and TÜV SÜD want a faster, certified path for AMRs

Oct 21, 2026

Their Physical AI Safety Suite is aimed at putting autonomous mobile robots next to people, with ISO 3691-4 named as one of the standards.

DC Velocity

Symbotic buys a German sorter made of small, steered cells

Oct 13, 2026

Cellumation’s celluveyor uses many independently driven cells instead of a long fixed conveyor. Symbotic says that can give space back to storage.

Modern Materials Handling

Warehouse automation spending is still climbing

Oct 4, 2026

The 2026 Peerless Research Group study, reported by Modern Materials Handling, puts conveyor and sortation in nearly half of responding operations.

Modern Materials Handling

What Modex 2026 put on the distribution floor

Sep 30, 2026

The magazine’s show report covers mixed-case palletizing, AI-driven automation, and warehouse execution software shown at Modex.

DC Velocity

Gartner’s four warehouse AI trends, as DC Velocity reported them

Sep 16, 2026

Victoria Kickham’s 16 September report summarizes Gartner’s map of warehouse AI. None of the four tiers is a guided diagnostic session.

DC Velocity

GreyOrange’s simulator tries to score a mixed robot fleet before the buy

Apr 20, 2026

GreyMatter Foundry, shown at Modex, is an AI model of flow, sizing, and layout for buildings that mix robot brands with people.

Material Handling & Logistics

A multi-country survey puts AI inside most warehouses

Dec 3, 2025

MIT Intelligent Logistics Systems research, reported by MHL, says AI is already in daily warehouse work, including equipment maintenance.

Reference

Predictive maintenance algorithms

Fixed limits, spectra, classical models, remaining-life estimates, and learned representations: what each one computes, and where it stops.