Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots

Autonomous Robotics Engineering Herois recognized for her four-wheeled robots Delivering food on the streets of college campuses and toxion, found a new area of attention: industries.

Cartken co-founder and CEO Christian Bersch, TechCrunch to TechCrunch, TechCrunch, who applied delivery robots in industrial conditions, was behind his mind as the beginning. When companies began to use robots from their robots in factories and laboratories, Cartken looked closer.

“What we found is that there is a real great need for industrial and site usage,” said Bersch, where other former Google engineers Behind the book board. “Sometimes there is [been] More directly to companies that optimize material streams or production flows. “

In 2023, the first large industrial client, the German production company ZF Lifetec landed. Initially, ZF Lifetec used existing delivery robots that can hold 44 pounds and a igloo cooler in the tires.

“Our food delivery robot has begun to move surrounding production samples, and it turned into our busiest robot,” said Bersch. “When we say, Hey, real-use cases and behind it, in the real market, and when this segment begins to target more.”

At that time, Karten still continued in the work of the delivery sidewalk, including locking Partnership with Uber And GrubHub is for US college campuses and last mile delivery operations in Japan.

But early success with ZF, Jake Stelman, Jonas Witt and Anjali Naik, Jake Witt and Anjali Naik to expand the work model encouraged the initial builders. The transition to Cartken’s robots to an industrial environment from the delivery of food was not much of a problem. The AI behind the robots is taught to food delivery information for years and the devices are designed to pass various areas and weather conditions.

This means that robots can travel between closed and open parameters. Thanks to the information gathered in the streets of Tokyo, robots can react and maneuver around obstacles.

468 Kapital, Karten, Vella partners and other enterprises and other enterprises and other enterprises and other enterprises and other enterprises and other enterprises and other enterprises and other enterprises. The company released Cartken Hauler, which is a larger version of Karten courier and maintains up to £ 660. The company has developed a karten run, which is designed for closed supply and work for a robot forklift.

“We have a navigation stack that can be parameted for different robot sizes,” Bersch said. “All EU and machine learning and the trainings that are employed are like transferring directly to other robots.”

Recently, Cartken has deepened its four-year connection with Japanese car manufacturer Mitsubishi, first helps to take the necessary certificates to operate delivery robots in the streets of Tokyo.

Melko Mobility Solutions announced a company under Mitsubishi Umbrella 100 Karten Hauler Robots For use in Japanese industrial facilities.

“We see a lot of traction between customer companies, car companies from various industrial and corporate sites to chemicals.” “All these companies are usually what we usually take from one building, a cart or a small forklift or a small forklift.”

Cartken will still continue its last mile delivery work, but it will not expand, Bersch, Bersch, said that this existing last mile delivery roads are still very tested for new opportunities.