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KUKA: Serving The Food Processing Industries with Robotics Solutions
Food Infotech
|February 2026
On the 2nd Day of Indusfood Manufacturing, 2026, we had an opportunity to interact with Mr. Shubham Sharma, Country Manager, Swisslog (India). Pawan Lohani, Senior-Sub Editor of Food Infotech Magazine, delves into details about the product portfolio of the company, including AMRs and Warehouse Automation. The Company is set to enter the Indian Market with Swisslog, one of the companies of the KUKA Group. Have a glimpse of the full interview.
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How have you been getting traction in the Indus Food Manufacturing in the last two days?
So it's a great opportunity for us, this time KUKA is directly participating in the exhibition, and you know we met a lot of good people, mostly company CEOs and managing directors are visiting the exhibition, we have a very good interaction with all of them, and you know we are really enjoying being a part of Indus Food and Foodtech 4.0.
How is Swisslog, one of the largest warehouse automation companies, planning to enter in Indian market?
Swisslog is a KUKA Group company, and we acquired this company long a decade ago. We are providing a lot of solutions for warehouse automation, and we are a pioneer in providing the solutions for auto store, for ASRS, and you know we are a global supplier for ASRS, for pallets, autostore for totes and our solutions are pioneers. We have the best software for managing the warehouses, like our own developed WCS SYNQ, and if you talk about India, India is a big market, and everyone is exploring, but we are as a global company, we have made a decision to enter the market for warehouse automation with our Swisslog brand. So we have a very good strategy to enter the warehouse automation market in India with our series of products.
We have multiple product ranges for warehouse automation, starting from frozen environment till the ambient temperature environment for high speed, for the low speed, for the medium speed, and for high-tech warehouses. For each customer requirement, we have a solution in the Swisslog when it comes to warehouse automation.
Swisslog is called the mother of all warehouse automation companies. It's a very old company and it's entering the Indian market with the KUKA Group. What type of AMRs do you have in KUKA Automation?
This story is from the February 2026 edition of Food Infotech.
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