Cartken Hauler and Courier Autonomous Robots

Cartken Inc. is a robotics company, with an Oakland, California dateline on its releases, that makes autonomous mobile robots for onsite logistics and last-mile delivery. It was founded by former Google engineers and, per its newsroom, shifted focus from sidewalk delivery to industrial intralogistics in 2025.

The range includes Cartken Hauler (660 lb payload, 2,200 lb tugging), Cartken Courier (44 lb payload for secured deliveries), a temperature-controlled Hauler and a pallet truck, Mover, marked coming soon. The robots work indoors and outdoors with camera-first perception, integrate with elevators, gates and doors, and are managed through a web fleet manager that supports multi-vendor fleets via VDA5050.

• Cartken Hauler: heavy-duty outdoor AMR with 300 kg payload.
• Cartken Courier: lightweight robot for secured 20 kg deliveries.
• Indoor and outdoor navigation: camera-first perception without LiDAR and no GPS required.
• Building integration: works with elevators, gates and doors.
• Remote assistance: operators can override via LTE or 4G at edge cases.
• Fleet manager: web tool for orders, ETAs, tracking, battery and analytics, with VDA5050 support.

Sample and part transport between buildings in Vietnamese electronics or pharma plants. Cold-chain handling on factory campuses. Parcel delivery within large campuses and managed estates.

Reduces walking and manual transport between buildings. Company-reported results include a 60 percent labour cost reduction and 99 percent order fulfilment rate. Deployment in 1 to 7 days per the site. Remote operators can assist at edge cases.

Factories, campuses and logistics hubs are adopting autonomous mobile robots to move goods between buildings and cut manual transport. Vietnamese industrial parks with multi-building sites are a fit for this intralogistics model.

Releases are datelined Oakland, CA and Tokyo. Logos include Magna, Mitsubishi Electric, Rakuten and Novo Nordisk. Melco Mobility Solutions ordered nearly 100 Hauler robots (2025-06). Cartken Hauler launched 2025-04.