Robot.com R-cargo

R-cargo is the industrial member of the Robot.com fleet - the American company known until 2025 as Kiwibot. Where its sibling R-kiwi carries meals across campuses, R-cargo is built for the inside of a working facility: it moves boxes, parts and semiconductor wafers between stations, then crosses the outdoor lot to the next building without a handover. The machine is a wheeled autonomous mobile robot with a 75-litre cargo bay and 360-degree obstacle detection, running Level 4 autonomy tuned for warehouse environments. The manufacturer stresses mixed traffic rather than fenced-off aisles: R-cargo is meant to navigate around forklifts, pallets and people on a normal shift, and to keep going outdoors, which is where most indoor-only warehouse robots stop. A battery good for about eight hours covers a full shift, and self-charging docks with an optional wireless charging system are offered so the robot returns to work without a human plugging it in. Compute comes from NVIDIA hardware, and the cargo area carries compliant industrial lighting. Integration is sold as part of the package: Robot.com promises an API within 48 hours and connections to point-of-sale and kitchen display systems, and every unit reports into REMI, the company's fleet-management platform and physical API layer, the same control layer used by its delivery robots and its R-noid humanoid. Remote operators supervise between five and ten robots at a time and take manual control only for edge cases. The company sells its machines as a Robot-as-a-Service subscription rather than outright, and publishes no price, mass, dimensions or top speed for R-cargo. Among the Fortune 500 customers it names for its fleet as a whole are the logistics operator GXO, Sodexo, Grubhub and AWS, but the manufacturer does not say which machine works where.

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