Streamlining Chilly-Chain Intralogistics with Totally Autonomous Robots Navigating Indoors, Outside, and Between Flooring
OAKLAND, CA/ATHENS, OH, Might 14, 2025 — Cartken, a number one autonomous robotics firm, and Stirling Ultracold, a pioneer in moveable ultra-low temperature (ULT) storage options, are proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership. Collectively, they’re launching an autonomous answer designed to move temperature-sensitive samples, reagents, and different supplies throughout life sciences, healthcare, analysis, and industrial environments.
This integration combines the outside, indoor, and multi-level autonomous navigation capabilities of the Cartken Hauler robotic with Stirling’s ULT25NEU Moveable Extremely-Low Temperature Freezer, enabling absolutely autonomous motion of crucial supplies requiring storage temperatures as little as -86°C (-122.8°F).
Right this moment, many services nonetheless depend on guide transport for temperature-sensitive supplies—requiring workers to bodily transfer samples between labs, storage areas, and manufacturing strains. Current automation options, if current, are sometimes restricted to a single constructing or ground, leaving cross-campus logistics fragmented and inefficient. The Cartken-Stirling integration solves this hole by providing end-to-end autonomous transport throughout complete websites, together with seamless elevator integration to navigate multi-level services.
”This partnership showcases how innovation in robotics and chilly storage can come collectively to unravel real-world challenges,” mentioned Christian Bersch, Co-founder & CEO of Cartken. “It unlocks new prospects for laboratories, hospitals, and industrial campuses needing dependable, autonomous cold-chain transport to streamline their intralogistics workflows.”
“At Stirling Ultracold, we’re proud to be the trade chief in moveable ultra-low temperature options, and we’re dedicated to pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our partnership with Cartken and their autonomous robotics platform is yet one more instance of how we proceed to cleared the path in next-generation chilly storage functions,” mentioned Jason Gillum, Inside Gross sales Supervisor, Stirling Ultracold.
Key Options of the Cartken-Stirling Autonomous Chilly-Chain Resolution:
Temperature Vary: from -86°C to -20°C (-122.8°F to -4°F), adjustable in 1°C increments.
Storage Quantity and Capability: 25 liters (0.9 cu.ft.), 18 commonplace 2″ containers
Inside Storage Dimensions: 332 x 221 x 340 mm / (13.1 x 8.7 x 13.4 in.)
Wi-fi Monitoring: Steady temperature monitoring and logging
Seamless Indoor & Out of doors Mobility: Autonomously handles transitions between buildings, corridors, and outside pathways, together with tough terrain.
Elevator Integration: Suitable with varied elevator methods for uninterrupted multi-floor transport
All-Climate & Day/Evening Navigation: Operates reliably in rain, solar, snow, and excessive temperatures, and in any lighting situations, 24/7.
“Our robots have already reworked how main pharma and biotech corporations deal with intralogistics—eliminating inefficiencies and guide transport of instruments, supplies, and samples throughout their campuses,” mentioned Christian Bersch, Co-founder & CEO at Cartken. “However once they requested for a technique to automate the motion of temperature-sensitive samples, we knew we needed to push boundaries. This primary-of-its-kind autonomous cold-chain answer is designed in direct response to trade wants.”
About Cartken
Cartken is an AI-powered robotics firm reworking onsite logistics and last-mile supply with autonomous robots that function seamlessly indoors and outside. Our robots assist redeploy human labor to higher-value duties, enhance productiveness, and cut back labor prices. They autonomously navigate various terrains, climate situations, and ground ranges with out requiring infrastructure modifications. Powered by superior AI and laptop imaginative and prescient, Cartken robots carry out nicely in dynamic environments and might modify routes in actual time. Based by former Google engineers, Cartken leverages deep experience in self-driving know-how and robotics to supply the most secure, most dependable, and modern supply options in the marketplace.
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About Stirling Ultracold
Stirling Ultracold designs and manufactures environmentally sustainable, ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers for the worldwide life science market from its headquarters in Athens, Ohio. Powered by the free-piston Stirling engine, as the primary freezer producer within the U.S. to make use of one hundred pc pure refrigerants, Stirling’s upright and undercounter ULT freezers use as much as 70 % much less electrical energy than commonplace compressor-based ULT freezers, as validated by the trade’s first ENERGY STAR® score for ULT freezers. The corporate additionally produces the trade’s solely moveable ULT freezer answer, which is ideally fitted to distant scientific trials and biologic drug supply.
