Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market: Global Industry Analysis 2014-2018 and Opportunity Assessment 2019-2029

Market Overview

Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market - An Overview

The demand for supply chain management continues to rise, as major retail and eCommerce giants are expanding their business operations, globally. With this trend there is a corresponding rise in demand for warehousing space, to fulfil logistics and delivery which employs large number of workforce to manage these services. Such manual labor is cost intensive and involves huge investments for the retailers. Hence, there has been a growing demand for the application of Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing market.

The deployment of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) has drastically changed the logistics and warehousing landscape. The retailers are integrating these AMRs into their traditional warehousing applications to automate the material handling processes. These AMRs are cost effective as they drastically reduce the in-house transportation time, automate the material handling with zero-defect production, improves safety and thus reduce the overall labor cost.

Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market – Novel Developments

Key players in the Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing market are focusing on strategic collaboration and partnerships with major retailers as well as product innovations and developments for sustained business growth.

• In 2019, inVia Robotics, a leading next generation warehouse automation solutions provider, collaborated with Tobi, an international fashion online retailer, to deploy its inVia Picker autonomous mobile robot for automating the material handling within Tobi’s warehouses.
• In 2019, Locus Robotics partnered with RightHand Robotics to provide cross-platform robotics solutions for logistics and warehouse automation for high-volume order fulfilment.
• In 2019, Prime Robotics, a leading manufacturer of innovative warehouse robots (AMR), collaborated with Fordist Group, leading third-party logistics provider in Europe, to deploy its Mobile Shelf logistics robot system to provide scalability to the warehouse operations with improved efficiency.
• In 2018, Fetch Robotics, a leading developer and manufacturer of AMRs partnered with Honeywell to deploy autonomous mobile robots into their warehousing operations to fulfill the growing volumes of eCommerce orders with high efficiency and productivity.

Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market- Dynamics

Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market- Asia Pacific Market Growth

Asia Pacific is estimated to be a very highly lucrative region in the Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market. The market for logistics and eCommerce is growing at a lightening pace within the Asia Pacific countries such as China, India and South-East Asia. This significant growth demand for huge investment into warehouse automation via deployment of autonomous mobile robots to fulfil the demand for labor shortage and to improve material handling operations to drive scalability, reliability and efficiency.

In growing economies like India, the warehousing and logistics market is booming at an unprecedented rate, and is estimated to attract nearly $10 billion investments in the next 5 years. To address this huge investment and supply chain demand, the logistics and warehouse operations are shifting from manual to automated operations through deployment of autonomous mobile robots for effective material handling.

Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market – Increasing Demand for Logistics & Warehouse Automation

A few years ago, the logistics and warehouse operations and processes were carried out manually, employing thousands of workers for material handling and carrying out in-house logistics operations. As the supply-chain industry flourished globally in past few years, there has been a huge demand for warehouse automation for material handling operations to improve order fulfillment and in-house distribution of goods with the ultimate goal to reduce the labor costs.

The adoption of autonomous mobile robots for logistics and warehousing industry has solved many problems posed by the booming supply-chain demands. The AMRs are collaborating with warehouse operations for automated inventory handling and movement, tracking and locating materials within the warehouse facilities, freeing the human workforce from such time consuming processes and thus improving the material handling efficiency within the warehouses.

Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing Market – Rapid Growth in the eCommerce Industry Globally

The eCommerce Industry worldwide is growing at a very fast pace. The global eCommerce sales was valued at $2.4 trillion in 2017 and is estimated to be nearly $3.0 trillion by 2018, with US and Chine dominating the global eCommerce industry. Due to this ever-growing eCommerce trend, the retailers are facing challenges such as shortage of labor for warehouse management, complicated order fulfillment processes and more. To overcome this supply-demand challenges, logistics and warehouse automation technologies such as Autonomous Mobile Robots have made tremendous developments in recent years.

The report is a compilation of first-hand information, qualitative and quantitative assessment by industry analysts, inputs from industry experts and industry participants across the value chain of the Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing market. The report provides an in-depth analysis of parent market trends, macroeconomic indicators and governing factors along with Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing market attractiveness as per segments. The report also maps the qualitative impact of various factors on Autonomous Mobile Robots for Logistics and Warehousing market segments and geographies.