LogiMAT 2026 is bringing collectively exhibitors from around the globe to current their newest options within the fields of machine imaginative and prescient and sensor expertise, exploring a broader vary of use instances for enhanced effectivity and security in intralogistics.
Superior sensor expertise, machine imaginative and prescient, and real-time processing of captured information: These are the important applied sciences enabling safety architectures, computerized identification, and course of automation in intralogistics. “Sensor and machine imaginative and prescient applied sciences present the sensory organs of intralogistics and industrial manufacturing,” notes LogiMAT Exhibition Director Michael Ruchty from Munich-based occasion organiser EUROEXPO Messe- und Kongress-GmbH. “The information they seize runs the equipment and techniques and facilitates the automation of transport processes in intralogistics, and it’s the very basis of digital transformation.” Their potential within the realm of identification alone is big: finding and monitoring logistical objects, measuring their dimensions, taking stock, figuring out their standing – and optimising all of the corresponding processes alongside the way in which. So it’s not shocking that just about one in 4 AIDC corporations (23%) report elevated demand for sensor applied sciences alone, in line with the Development Barometer revealed by trade affiliation AIM-D. What’s extra, combining information from particular person sensors within the materials stream system, a course of often known as sensor fusion, will increase “accuracy, flexibility, and security – the very attributes wanted for an modern and environment friendly materials stream system,” explains an data brochure on the topic revealed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Materials Circulate and Logistics IML. Exhibitors from varied segments of the intralogistics trade are coming to LogiMAT 2026 in late March to spotlight use instances for these applied sciences and present how the most recent improvements allow even larger effectivity.
A have a look at among the newest improvements in system design, industrial vehicles, and the security of property and personnel: IMAGO Applied sciences (Corridor 2, Sales space 2A30) is presenting situations that illustrate how machine imaginative and prescient tailored for steady operation, altering codecs, and the tempo of real-world processes will be efficiently built-in into current automated logistics environments and may unlock even larger potential for effectivity with AI imaginative and prescient. IMAGO sees AI-assisted machine imaginative and prescient techniques as a key enabler of strong, scalable automation in logistics. AKL-tec (Corridor 4, Sales space 4C12) can be in Stuttgart with its computerized pallet inspection system to indicate how right this moment’s machine imaginative and prescient techniques and AI-assisted analytics may also help reliably determine Class C pallets and take away them from circulation. The captured information lays the muse for built-in digital logistics processes and will be seamlessly built-in into current IT, ERP, and warehouse administration techniques.
Actual-time measurement with none guide intervention
Progressive Robotics from Greece (Corridor 1 gallery stage, Sales space 1GA55) can be demonstrating how bodily AI will be leveraged to automate mixed-case palletising, highlighting options designed to deal with containers of various sizes, weights, and SKUs throughout the identical pallet – with none want for pre-sorting, interruptions, or complicated configurations. The system makes use of 3D imaginative and prescient for real-time measurements, repeatedly adapting to the incoming product stream and eliminating the necessity for predefined patterns or guide intervention. Dutch techniques integrator Inther Group (Corridor 5, Sales space 5D33) is coming to LogiMAT to current Cubiscan 325, the built-in standalone high-precision measuring and weighing system that shortly and robotically captures the product grasp information of each commonly and irregularly formed articles and objects akin to pallets, containers, bulk items, and polybags. Cubiscan techniques function a knowledge interface to attach on to warehouse administration techniques (WMS) or database techniques, making information out there instantly. This makes it doable to make use of space for storing extra effectively, and higher-precision measurements assist cut back packaging and transport prices.
Among the many industrial truck exhibitors, Vetter Industrie (Corridor 10, Sales space 10A11) is presenting the most recent era of its SmartFork® expertise, which supplies forklift operators an improved field of regard because of cameras, sensors, and LED expertise constructed into the forks. This vastly improves security in items dealing with and offers operators a novel look “via” the forks to see instantly forward of the load being carried. SmartFork® now combines modular, retrofittable fork- and mast-mounted digicam techniques that show a number of views on a cabin monitor, together with a rear view, making it doable to determine obstacles and other people early on. Vetter can also be exhibiting SmartFork® AGVready, sensor forks developed particularly for automated guided automobiles (AGVs) in automated logistics processes. Multiway Robotics (Corridor 8, Sales space 8F79) from Shenzhen is introducing MW-SL14, a flexible, computerized high-lift stacker that makes use of an AI-assisted 3D imaginative and prescient digicam to determine the situation and orientation of pallets and hundreds and robotically adjusts to various pallet sorts, shelf heights, and storage positions. The automated forklift truck is supplied with 360° multi-sensor safety with acoustic, visible, tactile, and environment-based notion to boost security. tbm hightech management (Corridor 10, Sales space 10B05) is coming to Stuttgart with sensor-driven security and help techniques for industrial vehicles. The RRW-207 rear space monitoring system depends on a sole radar sensor to observe the zone behind forklifts and may also be deployed as a sensible safety system for navigating underneath mezzanines and galleries. The upward-angled radar sensor permits the system to reliably detect when the car strikes underneath the gallery and robotically cut back its pace. The vast detection area ensures that typical gaps or top variations are safely bridged.
Sensor expertise for security and long-term course of monitoring
Machine imaginative and prescient and sensor techniques for larger security in intralogistics are the main focus of the merchandise and options introduced by Toyota Materials Dealing with Deutschland (Corridor 10, Cubicles 10G41 and 10H48), microsensys (Corridor 2, Sales space 2B05), TWK-Elektronik (Corridor 8, Sales space 8A24), and Canada’s Lucid Imaginative and prescient Labs (Corridor 2, Sales space 2B17). Toyota is exhibiting its Operation Detection Help (ODA), a production-ready foot safety sensor for pedestrian pallet vehicles that additional enhances operator security. ODA was first launched as an idea examine ultimately yr’s LogiMAT and is now out there to order for the primary time. Like the gap sensors used to park automobiles, ODA detects when the operator’s foot is simply too near the pallet truck body and robotically brings the car to an entire cease. The TELID®3×2 information logger from microsensys affords wi-fi identification with built-in sensors to realize new ranges of security, combining state-of-the-art sensor expertise with subtle electronics to seize temperature, stress, humidity, shock, and incline. Measurement information is saved at freely outlined intervals and will be simply learn with an NFC system. Evaluation of this information offers a super launchpad for long-term course of monitoring. TWK-Elektronik manufactures security sensors utilized in automated intralogistics, primarily AGVs. As a spotlight of this yr’s LogiMAT, the corporate has introduced the Security Ring Encoder, which mixes two key features in a single system. First, it affords high-precision pace and place monitoring, counting on BISS-C, SSI, SIN/COS, and different interfaces for motor suggestions management. However it additionally helps a second safe information switch protocol through PROFIsafe, FSoE, or CANopen Security.
Lucid Imaginative and prescient Labs is a number one developer and producer of commercial cameras. The Canadian firm is presenting its newest 3D and HDR machine imaginative and prescient applied sciences at LogiMAT 2026. The Helios2 3D Time-of-Flight sequence, for instance, is designed for twenty-four/7 operation in demanding industrial environments. It’s ideally suited to use in robotics, 3D inspection, and logistics functions, together with materials dealing with, pick-and-place, sorting, palletising and depalletising, and quantity measurement. Helios2 cameras, geared up with Sony IMX556PLR Time-of-Flight sensors and Lucid’s sturdy IP67 factory-tough design, ship high-precision 3D depth information with submillimeter accuracy. On the joint sales space of the Mobility & Logistics cluster (Corridor 4, Sales space 4D53), specialists from Dallmeier are showcasing state-of-the-art video expertise for clear and environment friendly logistics and security processes. Entrance and centre is the brand new Panomera® V8 high-performance digicam answer, offering a steady 180° overview in a single system with out blind spots to seamlessly monitor giant logistics areas, shortly analyse incidents, and optimise operational processes.
“Because the examples right here illustrate, the most recent options in machine imaginative and prescient and sensor expertise operate as important enablers of environment friendly intralogistics,” concludes Exhibition Director Ruchty. “By intelligently combining just some particulars akin to expanded scanning ranges or fields of imaginative and prescient, they provide intralogistics professionals extra choices for bettering security, effectivity, and accuracy in automated processes whereas reducing prices. This makes machine imaginative and prescient and sensor expertise indispensable instruments for the intralogistics of tomorrow.”
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