Toden Logistics Automates 90% of Warehouse Shipments With MujinRCP

ITmedia reported on September 9, 2026, that Toden Logistics had automated 90% of its warehouse shipments and introduced Mujin’s robotic case-picking system, MujinRCP. The system combines AGVs, allowing one person to handle shipment operations that previously required four, the report said.

Toden Logistics’ case offers a concrete example of warehouse automation’s impact, reducing the workforce needed for shipment operations from four people to one. For Mujin, the ability to offer integrated control that includes case picking and load planning, rather than AGVs alone, is likely to set its proposals apart.

The key point is not automating material handling as a standalone task, but designing operations that bring case picking, AGVs, pallet storage and load planning under unified control. The reported automation of 90% of warehouse shipments shows that success depends less on the performance of a single robot than on how the preceding and following processes are connected. The shift from four workers to one also suggests that labor savings on site were achieved through process integration, rather than optimizing individual tasks in isolation. A related article from us is Mujin proposes a solution combining AGVs and depalletizing. In 2019, the company presented a combination of AGVs and depalletizing; this time, the system has expanded to integrated control covering case picking, load planning and pallet storage. In other words, Mujin’s offering appears to be moving from one-off robot deployments toward designing the entire sequence of warehouse operations: inbound handling, transport, picking and loading. See the original report for details. The development is also significant for Toden Logistics. The report describes a broad range of operations, from storing and processing materials related to power equipment to customs clearance, after-sales service and waste management. Automating shipments is only one part of that work. The focus now shifts to whether automation can be extended to other processes and how well MujinRCP can accommodate the specific load formats and operating constraints of power-related materials. Questions to watch include which operations are covered by the 90% automation rate, how exceptions are handled, and whether a similar configuration can be deployed at other sites.

In Japan, integrated process control may be better suited than single-function automation to sites with variable load formats and operating conditions, such as those storing and processing materials related to power equipment. Mujin’s integrated handling of AGVs, pallet storage, load planning and picking puts the standardization of connections between control software and material-handling equipment at the center of the domestic warehouse automation debate.