West Manufacturing News • March 2026 • Third Generation Autonomous Forklift

Fox Robotics offers the third generation of the FoxBot autonomous forklift—Mk3 (Mark 3)—expanding its capabilities to cover more applications and serve new and different industries with autonomous dock workflows.

The FoxBot Mk3 now has trailer-loading capabilities, in addition to unloading, so operators can fully automate inbound and outbound dock operations. It autonomously picks, moves, and loads or unloads single or double-stacked pallets into and out of trailers.

The FoxBot forklift uses on-board cameras and LiDAR sensors to identify pallets and detect obstacles in real time. The sensor suite on the Mk3 has been expanded to improve the forklift’s ability to dynamically track and understand its surroundings, so it can work safely and seamlessly in the warehouse environment. Using trained visual perception models, the FoxBot ATL picks pallets in any orientation from trailers it has never seen before and places them on receiving floors that can dynamically change over time. It can handle pallets that are single-stacked, double-stacked, or stacked in pyramid loads, as well as pallets wrapped with plastic.

With new cameras built into the Mk3’s mast, it can identify pallet pockets and adjust the width of its fork tines automatically to pick up pallets in any orientation. It adapts to a variety of load types and pallet configurations without the need to manually reposition the forks, making it suited for industrial and manufacturing warehouses.

New software integrations empower warehouse operators to create sophisticated warehouse environments. The Mk3 can pick up or drop off pallets from elevated conveyors, the staging floor and trailers, as well as automatically move them between automated storage, and retrieval systems (ASRS) and conveyors. Operators can connect the forklift, or a whole fleet of them, to a warehouse management system (WMS) to seamlessly collaborate with other automation and robotics.

• Unloads over 50 double-stacked or 25 single-stacked 40” x 48” inhes pallets in less than an hour

• Detects and avoids obstacles using 360° monitoring supported by LiDAR sensors and cameras

• Features fully redundant safety braking that prevents collisions and enhances worker safety

• Connects to cellular and Wi-Fi networks to deploy and start work within a few hours.

For more information contact:
Fox Robotics
4101 Smith School Rd
Building 2 #100, Austin, TX 78744
833-954-1965
www.foxrobotics.com