MODEX 2026: Dematic expands flexible automation capabilities through GreyOrange partnership

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ATLANTA – At MODEX 2026, Dematic announced a strategic partnership with GreyOrange.

Dematic said that the partnership looks to expand its flexible automation capabilities, providing scalable offerings for customers through distribution and fulfillment.

Through this relationship, Dematic will offer GreyOrange’s GreyMatter, an AI-powered platform that coordinates robots and workflows to improve speed and accuracy.

Advancing flexible automation

The companies held a joint event at the Dematic booth during MODEX, ushering in their partnership.

“Today’s warehouse environments are more complex than ever, requiring seamless coordination between people, robots, and systems,” said Mike Larsson, Dematic president and KION executive board member. “Our partnering relationship with GreyOrange reflects Dematic’s commitment to delivering flexible, high-performance solutions that help customers adapt, and scale with confidence. By integrating GreyMatter, we’re extending our approach within flexible automation for a more unified integration capability that helps customers maximize existing investments while unlocking new levels of efficiency and agility.”

Dematic said that this partnering relationship represents an extension and acceleration of the company’s software ecosystem, strengthening its ability to deliver flexible automation technologies by integrating the GreyMatter platform into Dematic’s existing software portfolio.

Together, the company said that these capabilities connect diverse technologies and integrate activity across multi‑agent warehouse environments.

By incorporating this capability within its software orchestration ecosystem, Dematic said that it enables customers to better coordinate fixed automation, AMRs and human workflows within a unified system. The companies said that the result is greater operational visibility, real‑time optimization and the flexibility needed to adapt as fulfillment operations evolve while maximizing the value of existing automation investments.

Looking ahead, Dematic said that this relationship creates a foundation to explore a joint network-level vision, extending orchestration beyond the warehouse to enable real-time, execution-aware coordination of inventory, capacity and order flows across distributed fulfillment nodes, including in-store environments.

Dematic provided the following key capabilities of the partnering relationship:

• Unifying diverse automation technologies, robots, and human workflows across the warehouse
• Integration within the Dematic software orchestration ecosystem to extend capabilities across operations
• Hardware agnostic integration that supports flexible automation and multiple fulfillment models
• Improved throughput and operational visibility across complex workflows

“Dematic is known for its innovation and experience in delivering automation solutions to the world’s most complex supply chains, and understands that the future of automation is flexibility,” said Akash Gupta, CEO of GreyOrange. “Together, we’re giving Dematic’s customers the ability to do more with the automation investments they’ve already made by orchestrating every robot, system and person in their operation through a single AI-driven layer. That means greater throughput, smarter decision-making, and the freedom to keep expanding their fleets on their own terms, without limits.