The race to power Europe’s warehouses with robots

The robot arms train every night. About half a dozen of them, flexing in silence. They practise picking up items thousands of times over, to test whether their latest algorithms are working as intended. And in the morning, Nomagic’s engineers turn up for work to check how the machines did. “This is a never-ending effort,” says co-founder and chief of strategy Tristan d’Orgeval. If the robot arms performed as intended, the updated algorithms get uploaded to the Warsaw-hea