"Crossroads" for hundreds of millions of rubles introduces 100 robots for assembling orders

The Perekrestok trading network, which is part of the X5 group, has entered into an agreement with Yandex Robotics to introduce 109 robots at a distribution center in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region with investments that experts estimate at more than ₽300 million. Automated systems will take on up to 90% of the tasks of assembling cooled and perishable goods in the fresh zone, which is about half of the operations of the distribution center. This became known in mid-September 2025.

Yandex Robotics was created on the basis of the Market Robotics Center and separated into a separate company in September 2024. The supplier was selected by Perekrestok as part of an open tender procedure, with the project scheduled to be completed by mid-2026.

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Automation of the distribution center will be built on the basis of the Yandex RMS (Robot Management System) system, which synchronizes the actions of various robots. According to partners, the efficiency of warehouse operations will increase by 30-40% thanks to the coordinated work of automated systems.

The technical solution provides for the integration of Yandex RMS with the Perekrestka warehouse management system. The WMS will send jobs to assemble orders, and the RMS will convert them into specific tasks for each robot, indicating the routes of movement and the time of operations.

The project involves two types of robots: autonomous AMR mobile robots for transporting pallets between warehouse zones and FMR fork robots, which receive signals about the readiness of pallets and move them from picking stations to buffer zones for shipment.

After the implementation of the system, orders will be collected 2.5 times faster. With manual operations, one picker collects an average of 130 boxes per hour, while using robots, productivity will increase to 300 boxes per hour per employee.^[1]

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