Last month was the height of peak season in warehousing. In December 2025, funding rounds, shutdowns from large companies, and industry studies drew our readers’ attention.
Here are the 10 most popular articles on this site from the past month. Subscribe to the Automated Warehouse Newsletter to stay updated and have the news delivered straight to your inbox.
10. Symbotic rasise $425M in December 2025 share sale
Symbotic sold 11.5 million shares and said it plans to use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes.” The company had announced the pricing at $55 per share. Founded in 2007 as CasePick Systems, Symbotic provides robotics, software, and machine learning for high-density storage and material handling. Read more.
9. Tutor Intelligence gets Series A to scale warehouse robot fleet
Tutor Intelligence, which is building warehouse robots using artificial intelligence, brought in $34 million in Series A funding. Josh Gruenstein, the co-founder and CEO of Tutor Intelligence, said he that when he launched the company in 2021, he felt jaded about the state of robotics research. Read more.
8. In December 2025, Zebra winds down AMR unit acquired with Fetch
Zebra Technologies is winding down its autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, division. That unit was built around Zebra’s $290 million acquisition of AMR maker Fetch Robotics in 2021. The move marked a strategic retreat from the robotics push that Zebra launched to expand its warehouse automation capabilities. Read more.
7. Geek+ maintains its global AMR market share lead for seventh year in a row
Geekplus Technology Co. has retained the No. 1 share of the global market for autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, market share for the seventh year in a row, according to a December 2025 Interact Analysis report. Read more.
6. Jacobi Robotics discusses DHL Fast Foward Challenge win
In October, DHL named Jacobi Robotics as the winner of its Fast Forward Challenge, Americas Edition. The competition invited logistics innovators, startups, and businesses to test their systems in a real-world environment. The winner can join DHL’s innovation ecosystem and exhibit in DHL Innovation Centers worldwide. Read more.
5. Mecalux, MIT study shows warehouse automation expands the workforce
A December 2025 study from Mecalux and the Intelligent Logistics Systems, or ILS, Lab at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics found accelerating adoption of automation and artificial intelligence. The research also reported two- to three-year payback periods and rising demand for high-skill warehouse roles. Read more.
4. UPS to spend $120M on 400 Pickle truck unloading robots
United Parcel Service plans to invest $120 million to purchase around 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot. The parcel company said the robots will ease one of the most manual and labor-intensive warehouse jobs — unloading trucks and shipping containers. Read more.
3. Mujin raises funds to advance industrial adoption of MujinOS
Mujin in December 2025 announced the first close of its Series D funding round, raising a total of $233 million through a combination of equity and debt financing. The company said it plans to accelerate global adoption of the MujinOS robotics platform and to further develop orchestration technologies for manufacturing and logistics. Read more.
2. Pickle robots spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting
There are some jobs human bodies just weren’t meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task — and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the national average. Pickle Robot wants its machines to do the heavy lifting. Read more.
1. Kroger to pay Ocado $350M to shut down three sites
Not all robotics and supply chain partnerships end well. Kroger plans to give Ocado Group a one-time payment in January 2026. This fee reflects the loss to Ocado of future capacity fees for three Ocado sites that the U.S. grocery chain is shuttering. Read more.
