Brightpick wins IFOY Award for Start-up of the Year

Brightpick has won the prestigious IFOY Award in the category “Start-up of the Year”.

The IFOY Award is an independent organisation whose mission is to identify and recognise the year’s best intralogistics products and solutions. The organization draws on an international expert jury made up of well-known trade journalists from leading logistics publications. The nomination and selection process for the IFOY Award makes high demands in terms of the safety, technology, sustainability, cost efficiency, design and ergonomics of equipment and solutions.

Brightpick showcased Brightpick Autopicker to the jury in April 2024 at the TEST CAMP INTRALOGISTICS in Düsseldorf. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony in June.

Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The company’s flagship robot, Brightpick Autopicker, is the only commercially-available mobile robot that is capable of both picking and consolidating orders directly in the warehouse aisles. The robot’s patented two-tote design enables it to retrieve storage totes (bins) from shelving and robotically pick individual items from those storage totes into an adjacent order tote. It does this repeatedly as it moves through the warehouse aisles until the order or batch has been fully picked. The robots use proprietary machine vision and AI to reliably pick everything from ambient and chilled groceries to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, polybagged apparel and more.

In addition to in-aisle picking, Brightpick Autopicker offers Goods-to-Person picking for heavy or hard-to-pick items. The robot automatically takes those totes to a centralized Goods-to-Person station where a human picks the item. This enables companies to use the robot to maximize their labor savings without worrying about every single item being robotically pickable. The versatile Brightpick Autopicker can also be used for pallet picking, stock replenishment, dynamic slotting, order consolidation, buffering and dispatch.