HaiPick Climb handles 3,000 totes per hour

Hai Robotics said on March 9 that it had upgraded its HaiPick Climb warehouse automation system, adding higher throughput, denser storage and more workflow options for e-commerce and apparel operators. The company said the latest version can deliver totes to picking stations in under two minutes and support up to 4,000 tote deliveries per hour within a 1,000-square-meter footprint. Hai Robotics said the system is aimed at facilities dealing with peak demand, including high-SKU and seasonal operations. The company has also used apparel case studies and marketing materials to position the system for fashion fulfillment and fast-moving warehouse environments. ### What exactly did Hai Robotics announce? Hai Robotics announced an upgraded version of HaiPick Climb on March 9, 2026, describing it as an automated storage and picking system built on the existing Climb platform. The company said the upgrade was based on feedback from customers and partners and was designed to improve throughput, storage density and packaging flexibility without changing the core architecture. (hairobotics.com) Victor Redondo, director of product strategy and planning at Hai Robotics, said in the company release that the upgrade was intended to help customers “store more” and “deliver more performance” while keeping the system simple and modular. That characterization came from Hai Robotics, not from an independent operator or analyst. (hairobotics.com) ### Where does the 3,000-totes-per-hour claim fit? Hai Robotics’ current product page for HaiPick Climb says the upgraded system can keep throughput consistent at up to 4,000 totes per hour within 1,000 square meters. The same materials say robots can retrieve any tote and deliver it directly to workstations in under two minutes. The 3,000-totes-per-hour figure referenced in recent coverage appears to sit below the company’s current top-line specification. (hairobotics.com) Based on Hai Robotics’ March 2026 release and current HaiPick Climb page, the company is now publicly describing the upgraded system with a higher ceiling of 4,000 totes per hour. (hairobotics.com) ### How much inventory can the system hold in the same footprint? Hai Robotics said the upgraded HaiPick Climb can support up to 45,000 totes within 1,000 square meters, or about 10,700 square feet. The company said that figure comes from a compact design, narrow aisles and double-deep configurations intended to increase capacity without expanding the building footprint. (hairobotics.com) The company’s product page says the design is meant for operators that want more SKUs and higher throughput in space-constrained facilities. That description is Hai Robotics’ own positioning. ### Why is Hai Robotics talking about apparel and peak demand? Hai Robotics’ apparel industry page says fashion logistics faces pressure from shorter product lifecycles, larger size and color assortments, omnichannel fulfillment and seasonal peaks. (hairobotics.com) The company says those conditions require faster and more adaptable warehouse operations. A Hai Robotics case study on a “leading apparel brand” said a first-phase HaiPick Climb deployment was completed in four weeks, supported more than 11,000 storage locations and delivered outbound throughput of more than 700 totes per hour. (hairobotics.com) The company did not name the customer in the material surfaced on its site. Another Hai Robotics apparel case study said SF DHL increased outbound efficiency by 3.5 times and inbound efficiency by 20 times at an apparel warehouse in Shanghai using a HaiPick system. (hairobotics.com) That example refers to the broader HaiPick platform rather than HaiPick Climb specifically. ### What is verified, and what is not? Hai Robotics has publicly documented the March 9 upgrade, the 4,000-totes-per-hour throughput figure, the 45,000-tote storage figure and the under-two-minute tote delivery claim on its own website. (hairobotics.com) It has also published apparel-focused case studies and industry pages that frame the system around e-commerce fulfillment and peak seasonal demand. (hairobotics.com) The specific claim that recirculating conveyors reorient parcels more efficiently than robotic arms for apparel sorting was not verified in the sources reviewed here. Hai Robotics’ public pages and surfaced materials describe conveyor-based workstations and side-to-side picking, but the exact comparison language in the prompt did not appear in the accessible source text. (hairobotics.com) LogiMAT 2026 ran from March 24 to March 26 in Stuttgart, and Hai Robotics said it would demonstrate the upgraded HaiPick Climb there at booth 3A03. The company said visitors could see how the system was being configured for different operating strategies. (hairobotics.com 1) (hairobotics.com 2)