en.Wedoany.com Reported - The shoebox picker developed by Nomagic has won the Piece Picking Robot Innovation of the Year award at the SupplyTech Breakthrough Awards. The robotics company, which focuses on applying physical AI to warehouse automation, announced that its Shoebox Picker has been named the Piece Picking Robot Innovation of the Year by the award. This marks the second major industry recognition for the solution, following its shortlisting in the Innovation of the Year category at the 2026 IFOY Awards.

In the fashion e-commerce sector, shoeboxes account for approximately 20% of all goods, with an even higher proportion in footwear fulfillment centers. Due to their unique two-piece structure, shoeboxes have long been considered one of the most complex non-pickable items, incompatible with vacuum or mechanical grippers. Nomagic's Shoebox Picker integrates advanced AI perception with intelligent end-of-arm tooling, enabling the robot to autonomously switch between picking, packing, and sorting, while dynamically adjusting grip force to accommodate packaging variations.

Kacper Nowicki, CEO and co-founder of Nomagic, stated that receiving the award validates the company's physical AI approach. Chief Scientist Markus Wulfmeier noted that the core advantage of the Shoebox Picker lies in keeping the robot body unchanged, representing a key milestone in robotic tool usage. The system leverages experience from millions of SKU interactions in a "chaos library" (a high-density dataset of real-world edge cases) to quickly adapt to new hardware constraints, particularly the complex structural dynamics between the shoebox lid and base.

Based on this technology, Zalando, a global leader in fashion logistics, is expanding its partnership with Nomagic and plans to install up to 50 AI-powered Nomagic robots, including the Shoebox Picker, in its fulfillment centers. The picker can handle 98% of shoebox SKUs, picking 450 shoeboxes per hour, which is 2 to 3 times faster than standard manual picking.

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