NEDRE VATS, NORWAY (May 28, 2026) – AutoStore™, the global leader in intelligent fulfillment, today announced it has won a 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for its work on Opollo Farm, the world’s first vertical farm operated entirely by robots
The RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards honor the organizations leading the global robotics ecosystem with new technologies, business models, and use cases. The award recognizes AutoStore for extending its proven cube-based automation platform into agriculture, helping enable a new model for high-density, autonomous crop production that addresses persistent challenges in food supply chains.
“At AutoStore, we have built one of the most powerful hardware, software, and AI platforms in warehouse automation, and the Opollo Farm deployment with OnePointOne shows just how far that platform can reach,”
Parth Joshi, Chief Product Officer at AutoStore.
Developed with vertical farming company OnePointOne, Opollo Farm is the world’s first vertical farm operated entirely by robots. It adapts AutoStore’s storage and retrieval technology to the movement and care of living plants instead of SKU-based picking. The system uses robots to precisely control airflow, irrigation, nutrient delivery, and lighting, while reducing manual handling throughout production.
Benjamin Warden & Subbu Vishnubhatla of AutoStore accept the RBR50 Innovation 2026 award
“At AutoStore, we have built one of the most powerful hardware, software, and AI platforms in warehouse automation, and the Opollo Farm deployment with OnePointOne shows just how far that platform can reach,” said Parth Joshi, Chief Product Officer at AutoStore. “Our robot and cube verse platforms, powered by AI-driven software, work as a unified system built to solve the hardest operational challenges. This RBR50 recognition is a testament to what happens when a truly integrated platform meets a bold, unconventional use case, and we see tremendous opportunity ahead to bring that same innovation to problems the industry has not yet imagined.”
In Phoenix, the first Opollo Farm installation is already producing microgreens, basil, and packaged salads for select Whole Foods Market stores. Crops reach harvest in 15 days, water usage is reduced by 95% compared to traditional farming, and production costs have been lowered by 60% for microgreens, 40% for basil, and 20% for packaged salads.
For AutoStore, the award underscores a broader belief that automation should solve essential operational problems wherever they exist. The same intelligent fulfillment that has helped retailers, grocers, and logistics providers improve throughput and space utilization is now being used to shorten food supply chains, reduce waste, and bring production closer to the communities being served.