Geek+ Opens New UK Headquarters With Robotics Innovation Center
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Having only entered the wider European market in 2019, Geek+ has successfully deployed projects in more than 30 countries—including over a dozen projects in the UK alone—with major retailers, e-commerce providers and third-party logistics players. Warrington, UK joins Düsseldorf, San Diego, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore in hosting a Geek+ regional headquarters.
“This is a momentous day in the development of Geek+,” says Brian Lee, the company’s Head of Europe and UK. “The UK is home to some of our most exciting projects, including large-scale automated parcel sorting and multi-site goods-to-person robotics deployments. Logistics operators here, and retailers in particular, recognize the game-changing value brought by autonomous mobile robots [AMRs] and are eager to upgrade their operations. We are delighted to have a full-fledged office to serve our clients here. We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone at our new UK home.”
The Sci-Tech Daresbury business park is an ideal setting for the new Geek+ UK headquarters, with the firm joining some of the country’s most exciting and innovative companies. At least 30 Geek+ employees (known internally as “Geekers”) will be based there.
“I’ve been on this journey with Geek+ for three years, and I have seen exciting projects across this whole country,” says Simon Houghton, Geek+’s Head of Sales and Marketing. “This office and its robotics demonstration center gives us a central hub where we can show people what we do and how our AMRs can take their businesses to the next level.”
Open to all visitors, the demonstration center is the showpiece of the new office and includes a selection of Geek+’s AMRs. The robots showing off their skills are the flagship goods-to-person P-800 picking robot, best suited to connecting inventory with warehouse employees; the award-winning RoboShuttle, which enables high-density storage solutions; and the S-20C, a sorting robot capable of connecting the disparate elements of a production or distribution line.
The Sci-Tech Daresbury community now boasts yet another world-leading company. The Geek+ UK team looks forward to greeting everyone who comes to see the innovations that will move UK logistics into a safer, brighter, more efficient future.
Geek+ is a global technology company leading the intelligent logistics revolution. We apply advanced robotics and AI technologies to realize flexible, reliable and highly efficient solutions for warehouses and supply chain management. Geek+ is trusted by over 500 global industry leaders and has been recognized as the world leader in autonomous mobile robots. Founded in 2015, Geek+ has over 1,500 employees and offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
This article originally appeared in Business Reporter.
Image: Courtesy of Geek+
