Industry Findings: Eastern European economies modernising manufacturing and large logistics hubs are increasingly adopting autonomous systems to reduce cost volatility and address labour shortages created by cross-border migration. Pilot deployments in Poland, Czechia, and Romania show rising interest in AI-guided movers and inspection units that can operate in older industrial facilities. This shift strengthens demand for durable, low-maintenance platforms and vendors with strong local integration partners who can retrofit automation into legacy plant infrastructures.
Industry Progression: Structural upgrades across industrial and logistics facilities are pushing Eastern Europe toward robotics with stronger perception and adaptability. A notable example is InPost’s continued rollout of automated sorting centres in Poland and surrounding markets in 2023–2024, where robotics-enhanced infrastructure is raising throughput benchmarks. This momentum signals rising regional appetite for scalable AMRs and integrated sorting systems tuned for older, uneven facility layouts.
Industry Players: Eastern Europe’s landscape continues to be shaped by Robotemi, Photoneo, Sewio Robotics, RoboCV, and Nomagic etc. The region is leaning toward perception-driven logistics automation as industrial parks continue modernizing. In 2023, Photoneo launched new 3D vision-based robotic picking solutions across Czech and Slovak logistics hubs, proving that high-precision perception slashes error rates in mixed-SKU environments. This drives demand for robots combining AI vision, adaptive grasping, and rugged AMRs suitable for aging industrial facilities.