April 29, 2026 | Industrial Automation | Food & Beverage

Fives Pushes Beyond Core Capabilities

AutomationMesh had the opportunity to sit down with Brad Perry, Director of Warehouse & Distribution Sales for Fives Intralogistics Corp., at the recently held MODEX exhibition in Atlanta. Perry explained how Fives has continued to evolve by offering expanded products, services and capabilities outside the core technologies it’s known for. Read More

Food & Beverage Roundup

Festo and CODI Showcase Palletizing Solution at MODEX 2026

As labor shortages and liability risks increase across warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities, companies are under pressure to automate palletizing and material handling. Beverage packaging specialist CODI Manufacturing offers a potential solution in its FlexStack Pro palletizing system. Read More

Appetronix Expands Food Robotics Offering with Cibotica Acquisition

Appetronix announced it has acquired Cibotica, a leader in proprietary ingredient dispensing and portioning technology. The deal brings Cibotica's flagship product, an automated bowl and salad assembly system, to Appetronix along with the company's proprietary ingredient-agnostic dispensing platform, enabling Appetronix to rapidly scale robotic kitchen concepts across multiple cuisines beyond its current pizza operations. Read More

Chef Robotics Completes 100 Million Servings in Production

Chef Robotics announced its robots have completed 100 million servings in production at customer facilities. According to the company's release, this is an order of magnitude more than all other food robotics companies combined, and Chef now holds the world's largest real-world food manipulation dataset and more in-production deformable material training data than any other physical AI company. Read More

Ice Cream Manufacturer Tackles Inventory and Quality Challenges with Rockwell Plex

Rockwell Automation and Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company shared at this month's Ice Cream & Cultured Innovation Conference how the ice cream producer is positioning its manufacturing operations for continued growth with enhanced production, quality and inventory management. Read More