Hai Robotics has been selected for what it calls the world’s largest rack-climbing warehouse robot project: more than 1,500 HaiPick Climb robots inside a single e-commerce fulfillment operation for a major European fashion retailer. The site is described as about 30,000 square meters with 1.2 million double-deep storage locations and design throughput above 24,000 totes per hour. HaiPick Climb is a goods-to-person architecture in which robots climb racking rather than only traveling on a floor grid, which is intended to raise density while keeping high tote rates for omnichannel fashion fulfillment.
The retailer already runs HaiPick systems in Europe and is scaling the partnership rather than starting from a greenfield experiment. Project messaging emphasizes double-deep storage, integrated automation rather than islands of robots, and the ability to absorb fast-growing online order volume without a matching increase in walking labor. For the wider market, rack-climbing robots sit between classic Autostore-style grid bots and floor AMRs: they reuse vertical cube, reduce aisle waste, and still present totes to people or downstream stations.
The announcement, circulating in English trade coverage over the past several days, is one of the largest disclosed single-site robot counts outside Amazon-class networks and is therefore a useful benchmark for AS/RS-plus-AMR hybrid design, WMS tasking of tote flow, and high-SKU apparel logistics.