Teradyne Robotics and Sereact Collaborate on Industrial Physical AI Deployment

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roviders a way to automate unstructured tasks such as returns handling and piece-picking. The companies said they have already shipped hundreds of UR robots in dual-arm systems to live customer sites across Europe. Commercial Scope and Application Range “Physical AI only matters when it performs in real-world operations, and that is where Universal Robots has always been at home,” said Jacob Pascual Pape, Chief Comme

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rcial Officer of Teradyne Robotics. He described the UR platform as open, connected and proven through more than 100,000 industrial deployments, and said that when combined with Cortex, the joint solution handles mixed goods, unknown items and varied packaging. Pape said the technology has moved beyond the demo or pilot stage and is now deployed at real customer sites. The companies list a broad set of target applica

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tions for the joint solution: returns handling, store replenishment, piece-picking and sortation, order induction, machine tending, bin consolidation, kitting, packing and goods handling. “Returns, replenishment, kitting: with Cortex, every one of these applications runs on the same production model. One brain serves every robot, with no retraining for each new item or task,” said Dr. Ralf Gulde, CEO and Co-Founder o

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onnecting 62 million active customers with more than 7,000 brands across 29 markets. At Zalando’s fulfillment centers in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the robots now autonomously process returned fashion items in what the companies describe as the first phase of a broader initiative to scale returns automation across Europe. Gulde said returned products almost never arrive in a robot-friendly sequence, dif

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fering in shape, orientation and packaging with a mix that changes continuously. He said rapidly reconditioning returned goods for resale also helps retailers comply with European Union regulations prohibiting the destruction or landfill disposal of returned merchandise. CEVA Logistics announced on October 7, 2026, that the Sereact dual-arm systems had entered live operations at the Greven and Świebodzin sites, deliv

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partnership with a joint demonstration at NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 this week. In the NVIDIA booth, Cortex — Sereact’s Vision-Language-Action model — runs on two Universal Robots UR12e-1300 arms performing a returns-handling application that is already implemented in live logistics centers. Those deployments run in collaboration with CEVA Logistics for Zalando, a European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle c

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