On October 28, 2026, Otto Group and Sereact announced a planned, two-phase trial of AI-controlled robots for processing returns at one Otto Group logistics center in Poland. The initial phase calls for 10 dual-arm systems. A second phase, conditional on the first phase’s results, was described as adding 15 robotic arms; the companies also described the program as scaling to as many as 25 robots.
How the project is planned to scale
The first phase is planned around 10 AI-controlled systems, each described as dual-arm. If initial results support moving ahead, a second phase would add 15 robotic arms. The announcement described the overall program as reaching up to 25 robots.
What Cortex is intended to do
Sereact says its Cortex model is intended to grasp, identify, assess and sort returned items, including products the robots have not encountered before. The company says Cortex can handle unfamiliar items without product-specific teaching or a fixed item catalog.
Sereact describes a development process that uses NVIDIA technologies to train and refine the robot policies. It says NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab generate thousands of simulated variations from real picks. NVIDIA Cosmos re-renders variations in garments, packaging, materials and lighting, while NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are used for post-training. Sereact says the resulting policies are tested on cases held back from training before they reach the robots.
How Sereact and employees would share the work
Sereact says it plans to operate and maintain the systems through a Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) arrangement, in which the provider supplies ongoing operation and maintenance rather than simply handing over equipment. Employees are expected to supervise the robots, handle exceptions and make final quality decisions.
