Podcast July 14, 2026

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Automating Brownfield Warehouses (5 Key Lessons)

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Many warehouses were never built with robots or automation in mind. While rising costs and labor shortages make automation too valuable to ignore, many operators cannot simply build or move to a new facility. Here we look at the most important topics operators should keep in mind before adding automation or robotics to an existing brownfield warehouse.

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Hosted by Andrey Bakholdin, Chief Growth Officer at Brightpick

Brightpick is a leader in AI-powered robotic solutions for warehouses. The company’s multi-purpose AI robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, buffering, consolidation, dispatch, and stock replenishment. The award-winning Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to keep their fulfillment labor to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, Ohio, Brightpick has more than 250 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed with customers across the U.S. and Europe.