Denmark: Føtex humanoid restocking names its tech partner, HIVE, and an early-2027 target
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-15
What happened: Two October 15 follow-ups on the Føtex pilot: Salling Group and HIVE are training humanoid robots to restock Føtex shelves at night, targeting selected autonomous tasks in early 2027 (RobotsBeat, published October 15, 2026, ~8:44 AM ET), while the day's other capture adds the current autonomy stage — the robots are still being guided through each step by human operators (MSN, published October 15, 2026, ~8:48 AM ET).
What's genuinely new: Development — this is the first movement in the hive-retail thread since it opened October 11 as a pilot-grade item with no unit counts, no timeline, and no hardware vendor. Two of that entry's own watch items land the same day: the technology partner (HIVE) and a timeline (early 2027). The operator-guided detail is also the record's first autonomy-stage datapoint against the deployment-metric standard this thread has been held to.
Watch: Which tasks count as "selected autonomous," unit counts and deployment hours, whether the early-2027 date holds, and cross-Salling expansion.
Links: MSN — In Denmark, humanoid robots are learning to restock shelves, but only after dark · RobotsBeat — Denmark's Biggest Retailer Trains Humanoid Robots for Night Shifts