The end of the forklift – take a look at these robots.

Made in Germany 🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/qM7sPJoAul

— Eric Boateng 🇬🇭🇩🇪 (@ericboatenggh) January 12, 2026

These are Filics Units by Filics, a Munich-based German robotics startup. They’re autonomous mobile robots that slide under pallets, lift loads up to 1 ton, and move omnidirectionally with lights for navigation.

• Couldn’t help but notice there is no forklift operator either. It is amazing how many jobs robotics and AI will replace. Many already being replaced today, even more in the future. – Steve Keating
• Warehouses are the perfect testing ground for AGI-adjacent robotics – structured environments, clear success metrics, immediate ROI. What works here scales to everything else. This isn’t just the end of forklifts. It’s the blueprint for how physical AI automation will eat the world, one vertical at a time. – Brian
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