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Cartken is a robotics company founded 2019, based in United States, developing 4 robots primarily in the Warehouse AMR category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Cartken has raised US$10.0M across 1 confirmed round and has 1 deployment on record, none maker-verified.
Raised
US$10.0M
across 1 confirmed round · latest Jul 2024
- Jul 2024· US$10.0M· led by 468 Capital· Tech.eu ↗· 2 outletsCorrect this round
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
Correct this →Shipped
6named customers · 1 tied to a specific robot
none maker-verified · on 1 robot
- Mitsubishi Electric Group Company· Cartken Haulerautomation.com ↗
Also cited
- Starbucks· 2023blogs.nvidia.com ↗
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- REEF Technologycommunitynewspapers.com
- Melco Mobility Solutionsmmh.com
- Uber Eats· United Statessupermarketnews.com
- Uber· United Statesfastcompany.com
- GrubHub/UA campus· United Stateswildcat.arizona.edu
AI-powered autonomous robotics for indoor & outdoor transportation with delivery robots producing 30x less CO2 emissions than a car.
Cartken develops autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material movement and interbuilding logistics across factories, labs, and warehouses. Their delivery robots serve indoor and outdoor environments, including college campuses and urban streets in Tokyo. Key models include the Cartken Courier (44-pound capacity), Cartken Hauler (temperature-controlled), and Cartken Mover. The company operates as a white-label B2B technology provider, enabling customers to customize robots for brand-specific applications. Major use cases include Starbucks and Grubhub deliveries.
Active products
4
RoboIndex
59.68
RoboScore 57.98 + Momentum 1.70
Company facts
- HQ
- Silicon Valley, United States
- Founded
- 2019 · 7 yrs
- Stage
- Series B (2024)
- Website
- www.cartken.com
RoboScore
57.98 RoboScore + 1.70 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #17 of 167·Warehouse AMR·best robot 61.45 + depth 3.33 + news 1.70 = total 66.48
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Announced $22.5M in aggregate funding for AI-based technology stack
Expanded robot fleet for Uber Eats deliveries
Deployed delivery robots for Starbucks and Grubhub
Cartken founded in Silicon Valley, US
Press coverage
- Cartken Rolls Out Robots-as-a-Service for Deliveries
NVIDIA Blog · Nov 2023
- Cartken Announces $22.5M in Funding for AI-Powered Delivery Robots
Cartken Press Release · Mar 2024
- Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots
TechCrunch · Jul 2025
- CARTKEN Our Products
Melco Mobility Solutions
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
+1.70momentumof 15 maxJR East tests Cartken delivery robots as mobile trash bins at Shinjuku
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
Why Cartken has been in the news, across 1 outlet — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by Cartken
4 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Cartken Hauler | Warehouse AMR | Payload 300 kg·Runtime 16 hr | 2025 | 61.5 |
| 2 |  | Cartken Courier | Warehouse AMR | Payload 20 kg·Runtime 16 hr | 2025 | 54.1 |
| 3 |  | Cartken Hauler (Temperature Control) | Warehouse AMR | Payload 300 kg·Runtime 16 hr | 2025 | 47.5 |
| 4 |  | Cartken Mover | Warehouse AMR | Payload 300 kg·Runtime 16 hr | 2025 | 47.5 |
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