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Back-of-house & Campus Transport

Move linen, merchandise, and materials that used to go by hand cart from back-of-house to sales floors or other buildings.

Core functions
  • Repeat transport of 100 kg+ loads on set routes
  • Integration with elevators, gates, and automatic doors
  • Indoor-outdoor and inter-building travel (model-dependent)
Customer value
  • Reduces heavy cart pushing and back-injury risk
  • Steadier replenishment timing prevents stockouts
  • Frees transport staff for customer-facing or judgment work
Check before deploying
  • Load size and form per trip (roll cage, pallet, case)
  • Outdoor sections, slopes, steps, and rain operation

Selected Robots

Hand-picked for this work, with the reason each one fits. "PoC" marks robots to validate in a limited trial first.

Pudu Robotics PUDU T300
Serving & DeliveryPurchase
Pudu Robotics（普渡科技）

PUDU T300

最大300kgを運び、昇降機やゲートとも連携する産業用配送ロボット

最大300kg · 480分
In use

Up to 300 kg with elevator and gate integration; suited to indoor back-of-house runs.

Cartken Hauler
TransportInquiry
Cartken

Hauler

屋内外をまたぐ重量物の自律搬送ロボット

可搬300kg · 牽引1000kg · 16h+
In use

Heavy loads across indoor-outdoor and inter-building routes; about 100 units ordered in Japan.

Proven in Japan

Cartken Hauler robots
Intralogistics · Cartken Hauler
Approx. 100units

Mitsubishi Electric group orders about 100 Cartken Haulers for industrial sites

Challenge

Industrial sites facing labor shortages needed to reduce manual inter-building transport.

Deployment

Melco Mobility Solutions, a Mitsubishi Electric group company, ordered about 100 units for deployment at industrial sites in Japan.

Outcome

Aims to automate inter-building transport with a 300 kg, all-weather, slope-capable robot.

IndustryManufacturing / Logistics
UseIntralogistics
StageOrdered / rolling out

Sources: Cartken プレスリリース（2025-06）

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Finished-car Yard · VLR
8km/day of walking replaced

Toyota's Motomachi plant automates moving finished cars in the yard with the VLR transport robot

Challenge

Drivers moving finished cars to the yard walked about 8 km a day back to the line.

Deployment

Slides under the car, lifts all four wheels, and drives autonomously with centimeter-level RTK-GNSS, adjusting to wheelbase and ride height; fleet-managed since September 2023.

Outcome

Replaces driver moves and the walk back with robotic transport.

IndustryAutomotive
UseFinished-car transport
StageFull deployment

Sources: 自動運転ラボ（2023-09） / MONOist（2023-09）

Robot: VLR vehicle transport robot (Toyota) (not listed on Hope-Robot mall)

Finished-car Transport · Driverless tow
1.4km towed driverless

Nissan's Oppama plant tows finished cars to its wharf with an autonomous tow vehicle

Challenge

Finished cars must be moved about 1.4 km from the plant to the company's wharf.

Deployment

A LEAF-based autonomous tow vehicle that reads lane lines and curbs with cameras and laser scanners and tows up to three cars; introduced in December 2016 after 1,600+ test runs.

Outcome

Plant-to-wharf transport of finished cars runs without a driver.

IndustryAutomotive
UseFinished-car transport
StageFull deployment

Sources: 日産 ニュースリリース（2016-12） / LOGISTICS TODAY（2016-12）

Robot: Intelligent Vehicle Towing (Nissan, LEAF-based) (not listed on Hope-Robot mall)

What this replaces, by industry

Which step and task this maps to in each industry's process flow. Open the line for the whole flow, or ▼ for the task list.

Automotive & Transport Equipment：Vehicle Production Line at an Assembly Plant

2 tasks
  • 8. ShippingMoving vehicles within the finished-car yard (replacing drivers' 8 km of daily walking back)In use in Japan
  • 8. ShippingDriverless towing of finished vehicles from plant to wharfIn use in Japan

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