Warehouse & Logistics News braved the hottest day of the year on record to attend the official launch of the UK regional headquarters of Geekplus, the global leader in autonomous mobile robot (AMR) technology. The office, located in Sci-Tech Daresbury in Cheshire, is not only a home base for Geekplus’s UK sales, engineering, and service teams, but also features a technology demonstration center where several Geekplus AMRs are on permanent display.
Having entered the wider European market only in 2019, Geekplus has successfully deployed projects in over 30 countries, including over a dozen in the UK alone, with major retailers, ecommerce providers and third party logistics players. Warrington joins Düsseldorf, San Diego, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore in hosting a Geekplus regional headquarters.
Simon Houghton, Geekplus’s UK Head of Sales, told WLN: “We’re over the moon with how today’s event has gone! We’ve really been looking forward to opening the new office and it’s been worth the wait. Some of our invited guests have already said that they would like to come back with colleagues and clients to check out the robots and see what solutions they can develop together with Geekplus.”
Brian Lee, Head of UK at Geekplus, said: “When we signed the lease on this new office, the building wasn’t even out of the ground yet – to see it come to life and be filled with people is really exciting. My hope is that we will always have this same feeling of energy, both from our team who can now enjoy working life outside of their home offices and also from clients and guests who come to visit.”
The Sci-Tech Daresbury business park is an ideal setting for Geekplus, with the company joining some of the most exciting and innovative companies in the UK. At least 30 Geekplus employees (known internally as “Geekers”) will be based in the new headquarters.
Simon Houghton commented: “I’ve been on this journey with Geek+ for three years, and I have seen exciting projects across this whole country. This office and its demonstration center gives us a central hub where we can show people what we do and how our AMRs can take their businesses to the next level.”
WLN was given a tour of Geekplus’s AMRs in the demonstration centre, which is the showpiece of the new office and is open to all visitors. The robots showing off their skills are the flagship goods-to-person P-800 picking robot, best suited to connecting inventory with warehouse employees; the award-winning RoboShuttle, which enables high-density storage solutions; and the S-20C, a sorting robot capable of connecting the disparate elements of a production or distribution line.
Brian Lee added: “This is a momentous day in the development of Geekplus. The UK is home to some of our most exciting projects, including large scale automated parcel sorting and multi-site goods to person robotics deployments. Logistics operators here, and retailers in particular, recognise the game-changing value brought by autonomous mobile robots, and are eager to upgrade their operations. We are delighted to have a full-fledged office to serve our clients here. We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone at our new UK home.”
Sci-Tech Daresbury now boasts yet another world-leading company as a part of the community. WLN, still sweating from that record-breaking heatwave, wishes the Geekplus UK team well as they greet everyone who comes to see the innovations that will move UK logistics into a safer, more efficient, brighter future.
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