Recognition underscores the company’s leadership in Lean AI and its transformation of global supply chains through artificial intelligence
C.H. Robinson, the leader in Lean AI supply chains, has been named to the 2026 FreightTech 25, which recognizes the most innovative companies transforming transportation and logistics through technology.
C.H. Robinson was initially named to this year’s FreightTech 100, a list of innovators chosen by a FreightWaves panel. From that list, more than 80 judges including CEOs, investors, academics and industry leaders each ranked their top 25 selections.
C.H. Robinson earned its place on this year’s FreightTech 25 list for its industry-leading use of agentic AI across global supply chains. Over the past year, the company has:
- Grown its fleet of AI agents past 30: The fleet of AI agents performs millions of increasingly complex shipping tasks, from price quotes to orders to setting appointments for pickup and delivery to tracking.
- Launched the Always-On Logistics Planner™: Embedded in customers’ operations, it operates 24/7 to improve speed, accuracy, and reliability across their supply chains.
- Introduced the Agentic Supply Chain™: An intelligent ecosystem that goes beyond automation, continuously thinking, learning and acting in real time to optimize performance at a global scale. Businesses can plug into C.H. Robinson and immediately benefit from the company’s agentic AI capabilities.
“This recognition reflects the scale of true innovation happening inside C.H. Robinson,” said Mike Neill, Chief Technology Officer. “We’re not experimenting with AI. We’re engineering systems that think, learn and act in real time. Our agentic AI is proving what’s possible when technology moves from automation to intelligence.”
AI has also played a key role in C.H. Robinson’s transformation, drawing positive commentary from analysts across the investment community. Reports from 16 leading firms underscore how the company’s AI-driven innovation and disciplined execution set it apart, delivering real-world results at a scale few others in logistics or in any industry have achieved with AI.
At the core of this transformation strategy are three unique strengths: industry-leading AI technology, the world’s best logisticians, and a Lean operating model that drives continuous improvement. Lean AI is the company’s rigorous, purpose-built approach to artificial intelligence. It maximizes customer value and enables smarter, faster, and better supply chains.
With its Lean AI approach, C.H. Robinson’s technology automates tens of thousands of logistics tasks every day, empowering its employees to focus on solving complex challenges for its 83,000 customers and 450,000 contract carriers. These capabilities have produced measurable results, including a greater than 40% productivity boost, millions of shipping tasks performed by agentic AI, and significant time and cost savings.
With seven consecutive quarters of outperforming the market and a growing portfolio of AI-driven solutions, C.H. Robinson is demonstrating what practical, measurable innovation looks like at scale. While others in the industry are still experimenting with AI, the company is already transforming how global supply chains operate.
