ProMat 2025 is well underway. Amid all of the new product news and unique demonstrations, several companies have also announced new partnerships. In the months to come, these partnerships could result in jointly developed products, deployments, and more.
We’ve compiled a list of six new partnerships announced at the show. To stay up to date on the newest technologies at ProMat 2025, follow the rest of our ProMat coverage.
Numina Group teams up with KUKA for warehouse picking and fulfillment
Numina Group, an integrator of warehouse automation systems and software developer, announced a strategic partnership with KUKA Robotics. KUKA said the partnership with expand its end-to-end autonomous mobile robot (AMR)-based picking systems across the manufacturing, e-commerce, and B2B industries.
Numina will benefit from KUKA’s large U.S.-based technical and software support team. With these resources, the company said it will be able to expand and continue supporting its warehouse automation clients in the U.S.
Under the partnership, KUKA’s AMRs will be managed by Numina’s Real-time Distribution Software (RDS), an advanced WES-WCS. The company’s Batchbot software combines AMRs with Pick by Voice and advanced order release and order picking.
Hy-Tek Intralogistics partners with Stellium
Hy-Tek Intralogistics, a developer of supply chain software and automation, partnered with Stellium, a consulting firm specializing in digital supply chain transformation. The companies said this collaboration will empower businesses to optimize their supply chain operations through Hy-Tek’s innovative IntraOne software and Stellium’s industry expertise.
Hy-Tek designed its IntraOne platform to streamline warehouse operations, enhance automation, and seamlessly integrate with SAP and other ERP systems. This provides a scalable solution for companies looking to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Stellium, a trusted SAP Digital Supply Chain expert, brings extensive knowledge in implementing advanced supply chain solutions for Fortune 1000 companies across industries such as fashion, automotive, consumer goods, and life sciences.
FORTNA and sSy.AI to bring generative AI to the warehouse
FORTNA, an automation and software provider for logistics, and sSy.AI, a startup specializing in Agentic AI and computer vision technologies, announced a technical partnership. The companies will conduct AI research and development for material handling operations in e-commerce and omnichannel warehouses.
This collaboration will focus on leveraging AI to enhance warehouse analytics, design, and execution. FORTNA will use sSy.AI’s Agentic AI to explore algorithm additions and enhancements.
Together, the companies aim to simplify complex data analytics for system design and customer queries. The collaboration will enable customers to ask questions about their data and receive actionable insights in natural language—with no coding or advanced analytics skills required.
Freespace Robotics and CASI set sights on material handling
At ProMat 2025, Freespace Robotics, a developer of autonomous robotics for material handling and logistics, announced a strategic manufacturing collaboration with CASI, a provider of industrial automation systems.
By leveraging CASI’s decades of industrial expertise and advanced rack infrastructure through CASi-IBOD and conveyor lines, Freespace Robotics plans to deliver a comprehensive, turn-key automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). The system will integrate storing, retrieving, sorting, and sequencing—all within a single, compact cube that efficiently delivers orders to pick stations or docks.
Freespace Robotics’ system integrates functions traditionally managed by external conveyors—such as sortation, sequencing, each-picking, order buffering, and pre-staging—into one operation. Combined with CASI’s specialized automaiton and advanced racking, the Freespace system offers higher versatility across diverse industries and workflows, the companies claimed.
GEBHARDT to bring Ocado technology to Germany, Austria, Switzerland
GEBHARDT Intralogistics Group and Ocado Intelligent Automation (OIA) entered into a relationship. The German company will provide the Ocado Storage and Retrieval System (OSRS) to customers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other territories where it operates. The non-exclusive collaboration also positions GEBHARDT to provide installation and maintenance support services for the OSRS.
The OSRS is an ultra-high-density cubic storage and retrieval system that combines automation with advanced warehouse execution software. It integrates Ocado’s Robotic Pick technology, which is already deployed at scale and has performed billions of real-world picks.
FORTA expands partnership with AutoStore
In addition to announcing its new partnership with sSy.AI at ProMat 2025, FORTNA also expanded its relationship with AutoStore. The companies will more closely collaborate on providing high-throughput, high-density goods-to-person (GTP) systems to meet the needs of e-commerce and omnichannel fulfillment operations.
Defined as an AutoStore system that delivers 10,000 lines per hour and/or deploys over 400 robots, these high-throughput systems provide scale and versatility. The ASRS is particularly well-suited for operations with high-turn, highly seasonal inventory, such as fashion, apparel, sporting goods, and similar e-commerce and omnichannel retail fulfillment sites.
FORTNA is closely partnering with AutoStore to apply its robotic high-density grid storage technology to increase throughput measured in units per hour while bringing down the cost of e-commerce and omnichannel fulfillment.