Exotec commissions two Skypod systems in Japan with Mitsubishi Shokuhin
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-20
What happened: Robotics & Automation News, October 20, 2026 (~4:54 PM ET): warehouse robotics company Exotec announced the commissioning of two new Skypod systems in Japan with Mitsubishi Shokuhin.
What's genuinely new: A debut — Exotec appears on the record for the first time. It lands in the warehouse-automation lane the record has been tracking company by company (NAPA's Hy-Tek × Hai Robotics build-out; LX Pantos's Incheon test lab; Amazon's million-robot fleet), and it is a completed-commissioning event with a named Japanese corporate client rather than a promise. Throughput, site counts, and timelines are absent from the capture.
Watch: throughput and site data from the two installations; whether Mitsubishi Shokuhin expands the deployment; Exotec's next named customer.