The international IFOY competition for innovative material handling products has named the finalists for its annual awards, saying 17 products and solutions from eight countries have reached the final round, selected from a starting pool of 49 applications.

Winners will eventually be crowned in five categories: Integrated Customer Solutions, Industrial Trucks, Robot Warehouse System, Intralogistics Software, and Special of the Year.

To reach the final stage, all finalists will undergo the IFOY Audit during the “Test Camp Intralogistics” on April 15–16 in Dortmund, where industry visitors can experience and test the innovations live. The winners of the IFOY AWARD 2026 will be announced on June 25 at the Atrium of the IFOY event partner AEB in Stuttgart.

For the five product categories, the finalists include products from: Crown, idealworks, Jungheinrich, KNAPP, Libiao Robotics, Locus Robotics, Mobotic, Nomagic, PureLoX SOLUTIONS, SSI SCHÄFER, STILL, The Mobile Robot Company, and Wiltsche Fördersysteme.

And additionally, four young companies are competing for the title “IFOY Start-up of the Year.” They include: AI2Connect, Koiotech, Pyck, and Romb Technologies.