What is the difference between Amazon Scout and Cartken Courier?

Amazon Scout and Cartken Courier are both sidewalk robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.

Is Amazon Scout or Cartken Courier more autonomous?

Cartken Courier has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Amazon Scout. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.

Which has more verified deployments, Amazon Scout or Cartken Courier?

Amazon Scout and Cartken Courier each have 2 verified deployments on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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Amazon Scout vs Cartken Courier in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

Cartken Courier has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).

Attribute	Amazon Scout View full model page →	Cartken Courier View full model page →
Manufacturer	Amazon	Cartken
Form factor	sidewalk	sidewalk
Maturity	commercial	commercial
Autonomy	—	✓ 1 verified autonomous
Availability	discontinueddiscontinued	internal-onlyenterprise
Price	Not announced	Not announced
Capability claims	—	Delivers packages (autonomous, verified)
Brain	—	—
Verified deployments	2Amazon, Amazon	2Cartken, Cartken
Privacy practices	—	6bystander-recording, cloud-upload, data-retention, third-party-sharing, location-tracking, data-deletion-control
Sources on file	10	10

Editorial summaries

Amazon Scout

Amazon Scout was Amazon's six-wheeled, cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, and the canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down datapoint. Launched in January 2019 (first neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington), it field-tested across four US markets, adding Irvine in Southern California in 2019 and Atlanta and Franklin, Tennessee in 2020. There is no consumer price, and the program is discontinued: on October 6, 2022 (first reported by Bloomberg), Amazon wound the program down, ending the customer-facing field tests and disbanding the dedicated field-test team while reassigning employees rather than conducting mass layoffs. It is recorded at commercial maturity to reflect its historical peak of live customer field tests, with a discontinued lifecycle state. It is the canonical sidewalk wind-down alongside FedEx's paused Roxo: a verified-vs-claimed contrast case of a giant's program reaching commercial field-test scale and then being discontinued while survivors such as Starship, Serve, and Coco continued, in the same spirit as the discontinued autonomous-truck legacies Embark and TuSimple. The figure of roughly 400 people who worked on Scout is Amazon's total-program headcount, with the reassignment-versus-exit split not disclosed, and the city-level specifics are partly inherited from launch coverage.

Cartken Courier

Cartken (founded 2019 by ex-Google 'Bookbot' engineers; CEO Christian Bersch) makes the Cartken Courier (Model C), a six-wheeled sidewalk delivery bot (about 44 pounds and 1.5 cubic feet of payload, 3 to 6 mph), and is the hardware-sale-pivot archetype of the cohort, editorially distinct from Starship and Serve: where they operate their own fleets, Cartken pivoted toward selling vehicles to operator partners. Its partners include Mitsubishi, Uber Eats, and Melco, and its lineup adds a larger industrial Hauler (2025; 660 pounds / 300 kg) and an indoor Runner. It is operator-supervised, not driverless. It has raised about $22.5 million (468 Capital, Magna International, Shell Ventures, Mitsubishi Electric). Cap-flag: the roughly 100 Hauler vehicles cited in the Melco deployment is an aggregator-quoted figure pending direct Cartken or Melco disclosure. As a B2B hardware sale to operator partners, there is no consumer price.

Common questions

What is the difference between Amazon Scout and Cartken Courier?: Amazon Scout and Cartken Courier are both sidewalk robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
Is Amazon Scout or Cartken Courier more autonomous?: Cartken Courier has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Amazon Scout. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.
Which has more verified deployments, Amazon Scout or Cartken Courier?: Amazon Scout and Cartken Courier each have 2 verified deployments on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

Recent coverage

Inside Amazon’s Elite Disaster Relief Team: How They Act FASTAmazon Scout · FreightWaves · 2026-07-08
AI Chip Selloff Spreads Across Global Markets | Bloomberg Tech 7/07/2026Amazon Scout · Bloomberg Technology · 2026-07-07
Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots - TechCrunchCartken Courier · Google News · 2025-07-20
Cartken Hauler autonomous robot launched for material handling - Engineering.comCartken Courier · Google News · 2025-04-16

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