Nomagic Wins 2026 IFOY Award for Shoebox Picker, Marking Breakthrough in Warehouse Automation for Fashion and Footwear Fulfillment
Award recognizes Nomagic’s Physical AI solution for automating one of the most difficult workflows in e-commerce warehouses: picking delicate, two-piece shoeboxes at scale
Nomagic, a leading Physical AI company for warehouse automation, today announced that its Shoebox Picker has won a 2026 IFOY Award in the Robot Warehouse System category, one of the intralogistics industry’s most respected honors.
The award recognizes Nomagic’s breakthrough in automating one of the most stubborn challenges in warehouse operations: the handling of two-piece shoeboxes in high-volume fashion and footwear fulfillment environments. Unlike most standard cartons, shoeboxes are fragile, variable in size and orientation, and often unsealed – making them notoriously difficult for conventional warehouse robots to pick reliably. Nomagic’s Shoebox Picker combines AI-driven perception with specialized gripping hardware to automate that workflow at commercial scale.
“Winning an IFOY Award is an important validation of what we’ve believed for a long time: the next major leap in warehouse automation will come from Physical AI solutions that can solve the messy, highly variable tasks that legacy automation still struggles with,” said Kacper Nowicki, CEO and co-founder of Nomagic. “Shoeboxes are a perfect example of that challenge. They represent a meaningful share of fashion e-commerce volume, but because they’re delicate, inconsistent and often unsealed, they’ve historically required manual handling. Shoebox Picker changes that, and this award is a strong endorsement of the progress our team has made.”
