AI in Logistics & Supply Chain: 10 real deployments

operating 41 driverless box trucks moving Frito-Lay product across Dallas, Phoenix, and Northwest Arkansas under a multi-year deal with PepsiCo

AI-powered transportation management platform for freight brokers orchestrating quoting, carrier sourcing, execution, billing, and customer engagement across truckload, LTL, drayage, and cross-border operations

Expanding Prime Air drone delivery to five additional metropolitan areas, targeting approximately 500 cities by year-end

Announced strategic partnership with Zipline to add autonomous drone delivery to Uber Eats, starting in existing Zipline markets including Dallas and Houston later in 2026, targeting one million drone deliveries per day by end of 2029

China Post deployed humanoid robot sorters alongside robotic arms and unmanned forklifts at its Jianggao logistics site under the Guangzhou postal center.

Reported: Humanoids process up to 1,200 parcels per hour at a facility handling an average of 6.5 million pieces of mail per day, with fingertip sensors rated to detect pressure as light as 3 grams.

DHL Supply Chain operates 8,000 robots inside its warehouses, changing headcount, onboarding and picker workflows.

Romark Logistics deployed Dexory's autonomous inventory robots for real-time inventory scanning across its Pennsylvania warehouse without disrupting picking throughput.

humanoid robots deployed to sort parcels at China Post Group facilities in Shenzhen

DHL Supply Chain runs Locus Robotics' Array system, mobile robots plus picking arms, in production (not piloting), handling pick, putaway, induction, and replenishment in one fleet for end-to-end warehouse fulfillment.

Reported: a claimed 90% reduction in manual labor

Sysco's COO added seven AI agents to his team but found no established frameworks exist for managing them, part of an 'automation illusion' that COOs at Nike and Box also described, with Box launching a company-wide retraining program after low staff adoption.