# Muratec and Alert Innovation partner to commercialize Alphabot technology

Murata Machinery (Muratec) announced a partnership with Alert Innovation to develop and commercialize Alert's Alphabot material handling technology for applications beyond grocery retail, including factory and hospital automation.

- Type: Partnership
- Announced: 2019-08-24
- Status: announced
- Products: Alphabot automated storage and retrieval system, automated each-picking system
- Sectors: [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md), [Material Handling](https://endata.com/sectors/material-handling.md)

## Companies

- [Murata Machinery](https://endata.com/companies/16691.md) (partner)
- [Alert Innovation](https://endata.com/companies/41569.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [therobotreport.com](https://www.therobotreport.com/alphabot-grows-beyond-retail-alert-innovation-muratec/), 2019-08-24: "Our partnership with Murata makes it possible for companies other than food retailers to benefit from this breakthrough technology"

---
Data from Endata (https://endata.com/). Announcements are summarized from public sources and may be incomplete; check the linked originals.