Brightpick, a global provider of warehouse robotic automation, announced a strategic partnership with MotionTech, a leading European warehouse automation integrator with in-house manufacturing capabilities and a broad product portfolio.

The Brightpick–MotionTech partnership introduces Gridpicker, Brightpick’s new high-throughput grid-based fulfilment system run by AI-powered robots, to markets across the UK, Nordics and mainland Europe. MotionTech delivers end-to-end automation solutions spanning robotics, conveyors, storage, controls and software – positioning it as a strong partner to deploy Gridpicker across multiple industries.

Gridpicker combines AI-powered mobile manipulators with the simplicity of a high-density grid design and modular warehouse shelving. It is the first AS/RS system capable of fully autonomous order fulfilment without retrieving storage bins to a picking station.

Gridpicker robots travel above shelves on a fixed aluminium grid structure and pick directly from storage totes sitting on top. Carrying two order totes at once to further increase productivity, each robot delivers 100+ picks per hour, exceeding the performance of a typical human picker. Gridpicker also comes equipped with Brightpick Fetcher robots, lightweight robotic trays that travel on fixed rails attached to the shelving, bringing totes from storage to the top shelf for access.

Gridpicker is the only system whose cost decreases as the share of robotically pickable items increases. As more SKUs become suitable for robotic picking, each mobile manipulator becomes more productive and fewer robots are required to achieve the same throughput. In contrast, traditional systems must add expensive robotic picking cells to increase automation levels, which increases cost and complexity.

Gridpicker, by comparison, was designed from the ground up for robotic picking. Having completed over a billion picks in live production, Brightpick has built a significant AI data advantage that will continue to increase robotic pickability rates over time, further strengthening Gridpicker’s performance and cost advantages.

As Brightpick’s integration partner, MotionTech will deploy Gridpicker systems across Europe. By leveraging real operational data, the partnership is focused on delivering measurable improvements in throughput, workforce utilisation, and return on investment – rather than theoretical performance.

“Brightpick is setting the benchmark for dense storage and autonomous item picking,” said Louise Ringström Grandinson, CEO of MotionTech. “Gridpicker gives our customers access to a system that outperforms traditional approaches on throughput, storage density and labour efficiency. Combined with MotionTech’s European integration strength and manufacturing capability, this partnership enables us to deliver scalable, high‑performance fulfillment systems.”