While innovators and investors are interested in humanoid robots, other form factors have a greater reach and speed. Pick8ship Technology AG, or P8S, today announced the X380 Picking Robot, a container-based mobile robot with integrated in-aisle picking. It is designed to increase throughput, flexibility, and asset utilization in modern warehouses.
“The system is not engineered to be ‘human like’ but 10x faster, reaching 2 to 3.8 m [6.5 to 12.4 ft.] high and engineered specifically for scalable, real-world fulfillment operations,” said the company.
Zurich-based Pick8ship is a provider of AI-powered fulfillment and delivery systems. The startup said it has learned from customer projects across retail, e-commerce, and industrial logistics. P8S identified manual labor, high SKU variability, inconsistent product data, seasonal volume peaks, and a low end-to-end productivity as common challenges.
X380 picks where the inventory is
Pick8ship said its modular, container-based automation connects inbound, storage, picking, and delivery into a single, continuous flow. The company has extended this architecture with the X380 directly into the picking process.
Instead of automating fixed workstations, P8S integrated a picking unit directly into its material handling robot. It said the X380 performs order picking in the aisle, significantly reducing the need to transport thousands of bins back and forth across the warehouse before performing the pick.
The mobile robot enables simultaneous picking of up to 20 orders per run at 350 to 600 picks per hour, according to P8S.
Physical AI drives flexible, scalable automation
The X380 supports multiple picking strategies, including multi-order and single-order picking, each picking, and bin picking, Pick8ship noted. Using AI-powered software, the system continuously determines which orders and products are best suited for robotic picking and which should be routed through goods-to-person (G2P) workstations.
Robots can also switch dynamically between picking in the aisle or tray and bin handling to G2P stations, allowing warehouses to adapt in real time to changing products or order profiles, said P8S.
The X380 can operate beyond human shifts, enabling overnight pre-picking, replenishment, and system optimization. The company claimed this can reduce reliance on labor, improve peak management, support later order cut-off times, and reduce unit costs at scale.
P8S seeks customer input on next-gen robot
Pick8ship said the X380, combined with its high-density, container-based storage approach, enables efficient use of space. The company asserted that a single robotic platform can provide “end-to-end automation, from receiving through picking to delivery.”
P8S plans to make X380 Picking Robot available in early 2027 as part of its next production expansion. It invited companies interested in learning more about the X380 to share their requirements and explore deployment opportunities.