{"slug": "ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future", "title": "AI in warehousing: Akash Gupta’s vision for the future", "summary": "GreyOrange CEO Akash Gupta discussed AI-powered warehouse orchestration on The Robot Report Podcast, highlighting the company's GreyMatter platform that coordinates robots and workers in real time. The episode also covered news about a proposed National Commission on Robotics, AGIBOT's World Challenge 2026, and Walmart and Wing expanding drone delivery.", "body_md": "Episode 247 of *The Robot Report* Podcast features the CEO of GreyOrange.\n\n## Podcast guest: Akash Gupta of GreyOrange\n\n[Akash Gupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashgor/) is the CEO of GreyOrange, where he leads the [company](https://www.therobotreport.com/tag/greyorange/)‘s global strategy and culture of innovation at the intersection of AI, software, and robotics.\n\nSince co-founding GreyOrange in 2012, he has helped build the company into a global leader in AI-powered [fulfillment](https://www.automatedwarehouseonline.com/tag/fulfillment) orchestration, serving some of the world’s largest retailers and [logistics](https://www.therobotreport.com/category/markets-industries/logistics-warehousing-asrs/) providers.\n\nAkash was recognized in *MIT Technology Review*‘s “35 Innovators Under 35” and has mentored entrepreneurs and technology leaders at more than 25 institutions worldwide, including Stanford, MIT, and the Indian institutes of technology (IITs).\n\n## Show timeline\n\n- 6:45 – News of the week\n- 18:05 – Akash Gupta, co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange\n\n## News of the week\n\nHere are the news stories covered on the show this week:\n\n**Effort to establish a National Commission on Robotics advances in Congress****AGIBOT holds World Challenge 2026 to see how AI models perform on real tasks****Walmart, Wing add 7 markets in drone delivery expansion**\n\n## Sponsors\n\n*Thanks to our sponsors who make this content possible.*\n\nThis episode is brought to you by GreyOrange.\n\nIf you’re running a [warehouse](https://www.automatedwarehouseonline.com/), your robots, people, and systems are only as powerful as their ability to work together.\n\nGreyMatter by GreyOrange is the AI-powered warehouse orchestration platform that coordinates every agent on your floor in real time, with over a million optimizations per minute, and delivering up to 4x productivity gains.\n\nGreyMatter works with the robots you already have, or with the ones you want.\n\nReady to go beyond your WMS?\n\nLEARN MORE AT: [https://www.greyorange.com/TheRobotReport/](https://www.greyorange.com/TheRobotReport/)\n\nTo learn how you can sponsor a future episode of *The Robot Report* Podcast, contact: Jami Brownlee – [[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#59333b2b362e37353c3c192e2d2e31343c3d3038773a3634)\n\nWould you like to be a guest on a future episode? Contact Mike Oitzman – [[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bed3d1d7cac4d3dfd0fec9cac9d6d3dbdad7df90ddd1d3)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future", "canonical_source": "https://www.therobotreport.com/ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future/", "published_at": "2026-06-12 23:58:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 11:03:01.553621+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "autonomous-vehicles", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["GreyOrange", "Akash Gupta", "GreyMatter", "Walmart", "Wing", "AGIBOT", "MIT", "Stanford"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-warehousing-akash-guptas-vision-for-the-future.jsonld"}}