Karter launches fast charging agile autonomous mobile robots

Capable of operating for eight hours after just 10 minutes of charging, Karter AMRs are agile and simple to integrate into a site’s existing operations.

Patrick van Tiel, Commercial Manager for AMRs at Karter, said: “These Karters are the future of material handling. They reduce a company’s reliance on human resources to carry out repetitive, labour-intensive tasks, and they can help lower costs and increase safety, ensuring tasks are carried out predictably and reliably every time. ‘Ingenuity through simplicity’ is our claim because that is what Karters deliver.”

The Karter AMRs are the first result of the company’s close technical partnership with BlueBotics. Since these vehicles are driven by BlueBotics’ ANT natural feature navigation, they do not require any permanent changes to be made to a site’s infrastructure in order to operate effectively (such as laying magnetic tape or installing reflective targets).

The Karter AMRs include:

• The Karter Kompakt: An automated pallet truck capable of carrying payloads of up to 1,500kg
• The Karter Lyft: An autonomous low-lift (500 mm) forklift capable of transporting pallets weighing up to 1,000kg
• The Karter Mono: An efficient AMR workhorse capable of transporting a wide range of payloads, such as roller cages, and boxes, weighing up to 1,500kg.

Karter AMRs are also fully interoperable. They can be used alone or in a full connected AMR fleet – even with other brand ANT driven vehicles – using BlueBotics ANT server software. ANT server’s API can also be used to connect a Karter installation to a site’s existing WMS/MES/ERP software and to seamlessly interface with equipment such as automatic doors and elevators.