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Half a Billion for a Warehouse, and Four-Legged Robots in Maintenance — This Week's Roundup
This week in the industry reveals two faces of industrial automation: on one side, massive investments in robotic warehouses; on the other, deeper integration of mobile robots into everyday maintenance processes. Rossmann is putting half a billion złoty into a fully automated distribution center, while Swiss company ANYbotics is linking fleets of inspection robots with CMMS systems. Let's take a closer look at what's actually changing.
01 · Intralogistics
Half a billion złoty and 66,000 square meters of automation – Rossmann bets everything on the warehouse
On September 29, 2026, Rossmann announced the largest investment in its 33-year history of operating in Poland [1]. The distribution center in Pyskowice, Silesia, will grow from 43,000 to 66,000 m², with the entire project valued at around half a billion złoty. This is no cosmetic expansion – the new halls are meant to form a fully automated high-bay warehouse with space for 27,000 pallets, complemented by a miniload system and a parcel-sequencing technology called "Dolly".
What does this mean in practice? The company expects to boost the efficiency of its logistics processes across Poland by nearly 30%. It's a clear signal that for retail chains, warehouse automation is no longer a nice-to-have that smooths out operations – it has become the core of logistics strategy, an investment on a scale comparable to opening new stores or expanding into new markets.
02 · Maintenance
ANYbotics inspection robots move into maintenance systems
If warehouses are being automated at the scale of entire halls, the natural next step is to automate what happens around them too – inspection and maintenance. That's where ANYbotics comes in: on October 1, 2026, the company unveiled its Shift platform [2]. It's an operating system for managing entire fleets of ANYmal four-legged inspection robots, linking data collected during inspections directly with maintenance and CMMS systems.
Shift lets users plan robot missions, track battery levels and machine locations in real time, and – once an anomaly is detected – automatically generate repair work orders. In other words, the robot doesn't just "see" that something is wrong; it kicks off the response process in the service system itself. ANYbotics is targeting sectors first where inspections are critical and costly to neglect – energy, metallurgy, mining, and chemicals.
This points to where the whole mobile robotics industry is heading: robots are no longer a curiosity shown off at trade fairs, but are becoming part of the everyday IT and OT infrastructure in industrial plants, integrated with the very same systems maintenance teams have relied on for years.
Summary
Summary
This week sums up nicely where industrial automation is heading: from large-scale investments in robotic warehouses to the integration of mobile robots with maintenance systems. Both trends – logistics and inspection – will be hot topics at Robotics Warsaw – the Industrial Robotics Trade Fair. Stay tuned for the next editions of our roundup, and come visit us at the fair, where you'll be able to see these technologies live.
Invitation
Half-a-billion-złoty warehouse automation and CMMS-integrated inspection robots are just a taste of what you'll see at Robotics Warsaw. Visit us to experience firsthand the high-bay storage systems, mobile robots, and fleet management platforms we write about every week. Let's meet at the fair and talk about your own automation project.
Robotics Warsaw 2026Footnotes
[1] RetailNet.pl — https://retailnet.pl/2026/09/29/rossmann-inwestuje-pol-miliarda-zlotych-w-rozbudowe-centrum-dystrybucyjnego-na-slasku/[2] The Robot Report — https://www.therobotreport.com/anybotics-launches-shift-streamline-robot-fleet-operations-scale-autonomous-inspections/
This review was prepared by the Ptak Warsaw Expo editorial team.