--- title: AutoStore: The Best Inventions of 2025 description: Find out why AutoStore is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318421/autostore/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:53.643Z article:section: Business og:title: AutoStore: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:description: Find out why AutoStore is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318421/autostore/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa8234c7d7cfce7/6998ca2c07a30d62cc77d5c5/spring-technology-suite-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: AutoStore: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: AutoStore: The Best Inventions of 2025 twitter:description: Find out why AutoStore is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa8234c7d7cfce7/6998ca2c07a30d62cc77d5c5/spring-technology-suite-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # AutoStore Smarter warehouses by [Matt Alderton](/author/matt-alderton/) ## Matt Alderton  Courtesy AutoStore As demand for autonomous warehouses grows, AutoStore aims to lead fulfillment innovation. Its modular systems—more than 1,700 of which are in use across nearly 60 countries—combine product-fetching robots with compact, cube-based storage to increase warehouses’ capacity, speed, and accuracy. This spring, the Norwegian company introduced a new technology suite designed to make warehouses even more efficient. It includes CarouselAI, AutoStore’s first AI-powered robotic picker; VersaPort, a flexible warehouse workstation; and software that helps manage and optimize automated operations. “The future of fulfillment… is about adaptability and making warehouses smarter, not just bigger,” says chief product officer Parth Joshi. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318421/autostore/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318421/autostore/"},"headline":"AutoStore","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:53.643Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318421/autostore/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa8234c7d7cfce7/6998ca2c07a30d62cc77d5c5/spring-technology-suite-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Alderton","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-alderton/"}],"creator":"Matt Alderton","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa8234c7d7cfce7/6998ca2c07a30d62cc77d5c5/spring-technology-suite-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318421/autostore/","name":"AutoStore"}}]}] ```