AI pick and place for warehouses and production lines

Smart Robotics builds palletizing, depalletizing and item picking cells in Best, the Netherlands. Our own AI software handles the product variety that fixed automation can't.

1,000,000,000+

picks executed in real operations by 130+ systems in 15+ countries

Smart Palletizer cobot lifting a tray of canned products onto a pallet

Smart Palletizer. Photo: Smart Robotics.

130+systems in the field
Half a dayto install a Smart Palletizer
99.7%average availability at Vandemoortele
Since 2015building cells in Brainport

Four applications on one AI control layer

Every cell runs the same in-house software, so new products and patterns are added by your own operators instead of a programmer.

Cobot palletizer stacking taped boxes at Packservice while an operator works beside it

Palletizing

The Smart Palletizer lifts crates, wraps, taped and open boxes at the end of the line. Stainless steel, tool-free gripper swaps, up to 1,600 boxes per hour.

Smart Palletizer configurations
Smart Palletizer placing chocolate cartons at Heinerle-Berggold

Mixed case palletizing

Vision places cases of different sizes on one pallet, and the software plans each layer for volume and stability.

Ask about mixed case
Robot arm with vacuum gripper lifting a box from a stack

Depalletizing

Cases come off the pallet whether they are stacked in layers or at random, with vision detecting each box even when sizes and orientations vary.

Ask about depalletizing
Smart Item Picker moving products from one tote to another

Item picking

The Smart Item Picker places single items into shipping cartons, totes or onto a conveyor. Piloted for fulfilment at bol.com.

Read the bol.com pilot

Not sure which application covers your flow? An application engineer reviews your products and rates with you.

Talk to an engineer

Stack a pallet at your own line speed

Pick your packaging, rate and product range. The cell on the right places cases at exactly that rate, inside the real footprint of the Smart Palletizer configuration that fits.

Packaging

That is one case every 4.5 s.

Products or stacking patterns on this line
Pattern shown
Product render of the suggested Smart Palletizer configuration

Suggested configuration

Essential

Footprint
2.4 × 2.3 m
Max stacking height
3 m
Products or patterns
Up to 10

    Footprints, pattern limits, stacking height and the 1,600 per hour maximum are published Smart Robotics figures. Case size and layer count are illustrations; real patterns are calculated per product in a feasibility check.

    What customers measured after go-live

    Figures and quotes from published Smart Robotics case studies.

    Smart Palletizer next to a full pallet of white cartons at Vandemoortele
    Vandemoortele

    Vandemoortele kept the trial cell

    < 1 dayinstallation
    99.7%average availability, 24/7
    1operator saved per shift
    < 1 yearpayback period

    Vandemoortele automated palletizing to ease the strain on its people. The fork gripper stacks open boxes, and the cell runs without fences.

    Read the Vandemoortele case

    “Our line operators were not entirely convinced of a cobot system. Because the Smart Palletizer is very user-friendly, the employees on the floor were able to work with the system quickly.”

    Bayer, pharmaceutical production

    “With our extensive range of products, a picking application must know really well what products it picks and how to place them correctly.”

    Niels van Veen, Lead Business Analist Outbound, bol.com

    Bayer, Heinerle-Berggold, M.O.C.A., Packservice and more: see what each one automated.

    All customer results

    €10M

    Series A to expand across Europe

    April 2026. Led by Rotterdamse Havendraken with Innovation Industries and family office Ernij Next. The funding goes into European expansion and the AI control layer.

    “What truly sets us apart is the scale of real-world data we have accumulated, enabling us to continuously improve our AI and outperform traditional automation systems.”

    Heico Sandee, Co-CEO and co-founder

    Coverage on Tech.eu · Company and investors

    Send us your products and line speed

    An application engineer replies with the configuration that fits, or tells you honestly when a cell is not the answer.

    Smart Robotics, Best, the Netherlands
    +31 (0)40 744 04 48