KNAPP wins Best of Industry Award 2025

KNAPP has received the Best of Industry Award 2025 from trade journal MM MaschinenMarkt in the automation category. Specifically, the award went to the AeroBot system, KNAPP’s latest warehouse robotics solution.

This year marked the tenth edition of the Best of Industry Award, which is awarded annually to the top industrial innovations. This year, around 25,000 votes were cast in 19 categories during the five months the polls were open. The winner in each category was announced on January 22. Readers of the trade journal MM MaschinenMarkt voted to bestow the Best of Industry Award 2025 in the automation category upon KNAPP’s AeroBot system.

AeroBot is an intelligent warehouse robotics system specifically developed to offer maximum flexibility and high storage density while remaining easy to scale. The autonomous AeroBots move through the system freely, utilizing all three dimensions to store, retrieve and pick goods efficiently and dynamically. AeroBot is ideal for applications in e‑commerce, omnichannel fulfillment and micro fulfillment, as well as use in industrial and manufacturing environments.

“The AeroBot system is another milestone in our long line of innovations. Currently, solutions that provide an easier start to automation and are flexible enough to adapt rapidly to market conditions are popular. It’s important to look at these needs on the basis of an overall concept instead of just isolated technologies. This is exactly what our main focus at KNAPP has been in the past years and we now have the broadest portfolio of technologies on the market. The AeroBot system complements our portfolio and, thanks to its compact construction, offers revolutionary storage density,” says KNAPP CEO Gerald Hofer.

Multi-award-winning innovation
This award is the latest in a long list of honors for KNAPP. In 2023, the company’s Open Shuttle solutions won the Best of Industry Award in the mechanical engineering / conveyor systems category. The repeat award underscores KNAPP’s dedicated approach to bringing innovation to intelligent intralogistics. In addition, the AeroBot system itself won logisticians over shortly after its rollout.