Inventory, Shelf Replenishment & In-store Picking

Dual-arm robots for stock checks, shelf replenishment, and in-store picking of online orders. Chinese pharmacies already run 24-hour unmanned picking; in Japan, start with a narrow scope such as after-hours or back-of-house work.

Core functions

Recognize items on shelves and pick or restock them
Pick online orders from shelves, verify, pack, and hand them off
Reach from top to bottom shelves with a lift mechanism
Record stock data and flag stockouts

Customer value

Potential to reduce night and early-morning stocking staff
Early stockout detection protects sales
Inventory visibility improves ordering accuracy

Check before deploying

Limit to specific product categories (shape, weight, packaging)
Aisle widths and whether it runs during opening hours

Selected Robots

Hand-picked for this work, with the reason each one fits. "PoC" marks robots to validate in a limited trial first.

HumanoidWheeled RobotOverseas casesIndoorsCommercial facilities

Galbot（银河通用）

Galbot G1

小売・産業・医療での自律作業を想定した昇降式の車輪型双腕ロボット

92.5kg · 21自由度

PoC

Lift-column dual-arm robot for retail and healthcare; routinely picks and hands over items in Chinese pharmacies.

Overseas Cases

Pharmacy · Galbot G1

400–500orders / day

Pharmacy RetailChinaCommercial facilitiesIndoors

LBX Pharmacy (Shanghai) runs 24-hour unmanned medicine picking with a humanoid

Challenge

Serve round-the-clock online orders without tying up pharmacists in fulfillment.

Deployment

From September 2026 at the Hongcao Road store in Xuhui, Shanghai: autonomous picking, visual verification, packing, and hand-off to pickup lockers.

Outcome

400–500 orders/day, 68 s per order, 100% picking accuracy; a Beijing Haidian store handles ~5,000 SKUs at ~99.5% grasp success.

IndustryPharmacy retail

UseIn-store picking

StageFull deployment

Sources: 澎湃新聞（2026-09） / CGTN（北京・海淀区の稼働報道, 2026-03）

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Smart pharmacy (China)

SitePharmacies in Haidian, Beijing

Scale10+ stores

Picks items from shelves and hands them over, enabling 24-hour sales.

Unstaffed retail run by humanoids (China)

SiteStores in Gulou, Ningbo, and Zhumadian, Henan (Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center)

Scale2 units

Payback1 year

Robots handle recognition, grasping, making drinks and snacks, and hand-off; dwell rate above 60% and purchase conversion above 30%.

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