IN Brief:
- Locus Robotics will expand its European headquarters operations at Logistics Campus Aalsmeer.
- The site will support customer demonstrations, training, partner activity, warehouse operations, and robot lifecycle services.
- The move reflects rising European demand for flexible automation across fulfilment, retail, and industrial logistics.
Locus Robotics is expanding its European headquarters operations at Logistics Campus Aalsmeer in the Netherlands, creating a larger regional base for warehouse robotics deployment, customer support, and lifecycle services.
The new facility will support European teams, customer demonstrations, training, partner engagement, warehouse operations, and robot lifecycle management. The site is being developed by Next Level Development and is positioned near Schiphol, giving Locus access to one of Europe’s most active logistics corridors.
Locus now supports more than 160 customers across more than 20 countries, with over 17,000 robots in operation. Hundreds of additional robots are also deployed during peak demand periods, reflecting the growing use of robotics as a flexible capacity layer rather than a fixed asset tied to one site design.
The company’s product portfolio includes Locus Origin, Locus Vector, and Locus Array, supported by the LocusONE orchestration platform. Together, the systems are aimed at improving picking productivity, reducing walking time, and supporting warehouse teams across fulfilment, retail distribution, third-party logistics, and manufacturing-linked operations.
The Netherlands remains a strong base for pan-European logistics because of its port, air cargo, road, and e-commerce infrastructure. Aalsmeer’s proximity to Schiphol adds further value for a technology provider serving customers across multiple European markets, particularly where deployment support, training, and maintenance need to be delivered quickly.
Warehouse automation demand has shifted from large, highly engineered projects towards systems that can be introduced into existing buildings and adapted as order profiles change. Labour shortages, wage pressure, higher service expectations, and more volatile demand have all pushed operators towards technologies that can increase productivity without requiring a full redesign of the facility.
Autonomous mobile robots have benefited from that shift because they work alongside existing warehouse teams and can be scaled in line with activity. For e-commerce, third-party logistics, and retail distribution operations, that flexibility is valuable because contracts, product ranges, and seasonal peaks can change faster than fixed automation payback cycles.
The European automation market is also becoming more varied. Exotec’s automation project for MUSINSA in South Korea shows how shuttle and robotics systems are being applied to high-throughput fashion fulfilment, while Romark’s deployment of DexoryView illustrates the rising value of automated inventory visibility. The common thread is a warehouse environment becoming more software-defined, more data-led, and more reliant on robotic execution.
Local support infrastructure is becoming a decisive factor in that transition. Robotics projects require site assessment, process design, integration, training, maintenance, fleet monitoring, and operational adjustment after go-live. A larger European base gives Locus more capacity to support customers through those stages rather than treating deployment as a one-off installation.
Lifecycle services are also becoming more important as robotics fleets mature. Operators must manage uptime, battery performance, software updates, spare parts, safety, and peak deployment planning in the same way they manage conveyors, lift trucks, sortation systems, and warehouse software.
The Aalsmeer expansion therefore reflects a more mature European automation market. Growth is no longer driven only by early adopters or pilot projects; it increasingly depends on whether suppliers can provide service density, integration capability, and long-term operational support across multiple countries.
