Brightpick, a leader in AI-powered robotic solutions for warehouses, has partnered with Thistle Systems, one of the UK’s leading integrators of automated storage solutions, to expand access to its end-to-end robotic fulfilment platform across the UK.
As warehouses in the UK face growing pressure from labour shortages, rising costs, and limited floor space, many companies are turning to automation to stay competitive. Brightpick’s AI robots tackle these challenges head-on by automating critical warehouse fulfilment workflows while eliminating labour dependency and maximising space utilisation.
Thistle Systems will offer customers the full suite of Brightpick products, including:
- Autopicker: Brightpick’s flagship multi-purpose mobile manipulator that automates a wide range of warehouse workflows, including order picking, buffering, consolidation, dispatch, and stock replenishment.
- Retriever: Mobile robot designed for Goods-to-Person picking operations.
- Giraffe: An extendable mobile robot that reaches up to 6 meters (20 feet) to enable high-density vertical storage. Giraffe works alongside Autopicker and Retriever robots to retrieve totes from upper levels.
- Brightbox: An end-to-end automated fulfilment solution for brownfield mezzanines, combining Brightpick robots with modular racking and software for fast deployment.
“Partnering with Brightpick allows us to offer one of the most innovative and scalable robotic solutions on the market today,” said Mike Cairns, CEO of Thistle Systems. “Their AI robots are unique in combining extreme ease of deployment and scalability with advanced end-to-end automation. Together, we will help customers transform their operations while minimising deployment costs and implementation risk.”
“Thistle Systems has a proven track record of delivering complex automation projects across the UK,” said Branislav Pulis, Chief Revenue Officer at Brightpick. “This partnership strengthens our UK presence and allows more companies to benefit from our fast, flexible robotic solutions.”
About Brightpick
Brightpick is a leader in AI-powered robotic solutions for warehouses. The company’s multi-purpose AI robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, buffering, consolidation, dispatch, and stock replenishment. The award-winning Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to keep their warehouse labour to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, Ohio, Brightpick has more than 250 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed with customers across the U.S. and Europe.
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