What is AutoStore?
AutoStore is a cube-storage automated storage and retrieval system made by the Norwegian company AutoStore. Small robots drive across the top of a dense grid of stacked bins, digging down to retrieve the right bin and delivering it to a worker at a port. AutoStore reports more than 1,950 installations across 65-plus countries.
Key facts
- Form factor
- amr
- Maturity
- commercial
- Verified deployments
- 2
- Maker
- AutoStore
- formFactor
- amr (grid-based cube storage AS/RS; robots run on top of a fixed bin grid)
- classification
- grid-bot automated storage & retrieval (AS/RS), NOT a free-roaming AMR - constrained to a fixed grid surface
On the record
AutoStore footage of its cube-storage system. Grid robots operate on top of an aluminum storage grid, delivering bins to goods-to-person Ports in a closed automated storage-and-retrieval system.
What it is
AutoStore is a cube-storage warehouse system built by AutoStore, based in Nedre Vats, Norway, founded in 1996 and listed on the Oslo Bors (ticker AUTO) since its October 2021 IPO. It is recorded at commercial maturity on the DEPLOY registry.
What it actually does
Instead of aisles and shelves, AutoStore stacks inventory bins into a dense cube. Small robots run on rails across the top of that grid, digging down to lift out the bin they need and carrying it to a fixed workstation port where a person picks the item. It is a goods-to-person system: the goods come to the worker, not the other way around.
A classification note
DEPLOY files AutoStore under the warehouse-automation cohort but flags it explicitly: it is a grid-based automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), where robots are constrained to a fixed grid surface, not a free-roaming mobile robot like Locus or MiR.
Scale and deployments
AutoStore reports more than 1,950 installations across 65-plus countries as of its FY2025 annual report, including over 300 in North America. DEPLOY holds verified deployments at ASOS in Barnsley, UK, and Boozt in Ängelholm, Sweden.
For the mechanics, see how AutoStore works. For how DEPLOY separates verified deployments from claims, see verified-vs-claimed.
Frequently asked
Who makes AutoStore?
AutoStore is made by AutoStore, based in Nedre Vats, Norway, founded in 1996 and listed on the Oslo Bors (ticker AUTO) since October 2021.
Is AutoStore an AMR?
Not in the free-roaming sense. DEPLOY records it as a grid-based automated storage and retrieval system: the robots are constrained to a fixed grid on top of the bin stack, not driving freely around a warehouse.
How many AutoStore installations are there?
AutoStore reports more than 1,950 installations across 65-plus countries as of its FY2025 annual report, including over 300 in North America.
Verified vs claimed
- Verified: AutoStore (Nedre Vats, Norway; Oslo Bors: AUTO) is a commercial cube-storage system: a grid of stacked bins with small robots driving on top, digging down to retrieve bins and delivering them to ports. FY2025: 1,950+ installations across 65+ countries (300+ in North America, 21,000+ robots there). IPO Oct 2021.
- No outstanding claims on file.
Split from the registry record. See the verified-vs-claimed framework.
Where it is deployed
2 verified deployments on the registry for the AutoStore System. Click any marker to open its primary-source record.
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