Startup Otonom Robotics Cartkenknown to Robot four wheels The sending food on college campuses and through the beautiful way of Tokyo, have found the new focus area: the industry.
Cartken Co-founder and Christian Beers Mercrunch tells techcrroch who applying the delivery robot to industrial settings will always start. When the company started on the use of robots and lab, cartken takes closer.
“What is found that is actually a great chance in case of industry and onsite,” he said he was, proving the beginning of theertineer At the end of the bookbot projectsSee rankings-. “Sometimes, there are those who have (already) more value directly for the company optimizing the flow of material or flow of production.”
In 2023, the start has landed industrial customers, the German manufacturing company ZF LIFTEC. Initially, ZF Liftec using existing delivery robot, called cartken courier, which can hold 44 pounds and almost equal to igloo wheels.
“Our food’s robot delivery begins to start production production of oblis, and quickly become the busiest robot all,” He said Beers. “This is when saying,” is like a real use case and actual market need, and when you start the more targets. “
At that time, Cartken still continued in the sidewalt business, including locking Partnerhips with uber eating And Gruchub for Mil-Mil Delivery Operations in some US college’s college campus.
But early success with ZF, supporting Jake’s foundation, including Steak Jake, Jonas Witt and Anjali Update, to expand the business model. Switch cartken robots from food posts to industrial settings, not a challenge, he said. Ai at the back of the robot trained in many years data delivery data and the device is designed to solve various terrain and weather conditions.
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This means that the robot can travel inside the indoor and room. And thanks to the collected data not sending food on Tokyo Road, the robot can react and maneuver in trouble.
Cartken, who has raised over $ 20 million from 468 Capital, Mitrane Vela, and another business company, has started making robot fleet to reflect pivot into the industry. The company release the Hualer Cartken in this year, the greater version of carken couriers and can be up to 660 pounds. The company also releases the ridge of carken, designed for indoor posts, and also working on the same forklift robot.
“We have a navigation pile that is a parametyizable for different robot size,” he said hers. “All learning AI and a machine entered as transferred directly to another robot.”
Cartken that broke that you can undergo four years to the Japanese Otomaker Mitsubishi, which originally helps the company gaining the delivery robot on Tokyo robot.
Melco Car Melco Solution, the company under the Mitsubishi Umbrella, just announced that it will buy almost 100 Robertken Cartken Hidhauler To use the Japanese industrial facility.
“We can always see many tractions on various company sites and companies, from automatives companies for pharmacy to chemical,” he said. “All the companies usually have someone who moves the goods from the other building, whether there is a hand, in the cart, or a small forklift, and the target.”
Cartken still remains food and consumer business last post, but it will not develop, then it is still trying to try to try the new route of this mile.