What is the Cartken Courier deployment at Miami, Florida, USA?

Cartken Courier, built by Cartken, is recorded as a deployment at Miami, Florida, USA on the DEPLOY registry. Cartken operates the deployment directly.

Who operates Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA?

Cartken, the manufacturer of Cartken Courier, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

When did the Cartken Courier deployment at Miami, Florida, USA go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2023 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

Have there been incidents at the Cartken Courier deployment at Miami, Florida, USA?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

Is Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA safe?

Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Deployment

Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA

Name: Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA
Start: 2023-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Miami, Florida, USA

Cartken (Oakland, California; founded 2019 by ex-Google engineers from the Bookbot project, led by CEO Christian Bersch; about $22.5 million raised from investors including Magna International, Shell Ventures, and Mitsubishi Electric) makes six-wheeled autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. Its Cartken Courier is the original sidewalk bot carrying about 44 pounds at 3 to 6 miles per hour, joined by the larger industrial Cartken Hauler with a 660-pound payload and an indoor Cartken Runner. It ran campus and food sidewalk delivery at scale, including a 41-robot fleet at the University of Arizona via Grubhub and Uber Eats service in Miami and Tokyo, but in July 2025 it pivoted its growth focus from last-mile food delivery to industrial robotics, with food delivery continuing but no longer expanding. The registry records it at commercial maturity with a finding that corrects the sector's captive-service premise: Cartken is not a classic captive operator, its legacy campus business was robots-as-a-service, and its forward business is industrial robot sales, anchored by a multi-million-dollar order from Melco, a Mitsubishi Electric Group company, for nearly 100 Cartken Hauler robots placed on June 25, 2025, an outright sale rather than a service, following a first industrial customer in Germany's ZF Lifetec in 2023. The frequently cited figure of more than 50,000 orders at the University of Arizona is company and BusinessWire PR, with Grubhub corroborating the program but not the count, and the current fleet size, total lifetime deliveries, whether the roughly 100 Haulers have actually been deployed rather than merely ordered, and whether the Miami service is still live in 2026 are not verified.

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Markdown mirror: /deployments/cartken-courier-miami-florida-usa.md
JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
REST API: /v1/robots/99a07597-57fd-4578-a5e7-256ae0d9ac89
Data documentation: /data
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Cartken delivery robots deployed in Miami through partnership with Uber. Also deployed at Japanese malls for Starbucks coffee deliveries.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Trust tier: Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
Last updated: 2026-07-09
Model: Cartken Courier
Company: Cartken
Location: United States/Miami, Florida, USA
Status: operational
First seen: 2023-01-01
ID: 99a07597-57fd-4578-a5e7-256ae0d9ac89

Sources (1)

Physical AI Trends: Cartken deployments · https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/insights/physical-ai-trends-changing-the-world · 2023-01-01

Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-09

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-09

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: sidewalk

Sources by quality tier

1: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

Common questions

What is the Cartken Courier deployment at Miami, Florida, USA?: Cartken Courier, built by Cartken, is recorded as a deployment at Miami, Florida, USA on the DEPLOY registry. Cartken operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA?: Cartken, the manufacturer of Cartken Courier, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
When did the Cartken Courier deployment at Miami, Florida, USA go live?: The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2023 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Have there been incidents at the Cartken Courier deployment at Miami, Florida, USA?: No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
Is Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA safe?: Cartken Courier at Miami, Florida, USA has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

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