# Cartken: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Cartken pivoted from operating to selling sidewalk delivery robots (Courier + Hauler) to operator partners (Mitsubishi, Uber Eats, Melco). B2B, no consumer price.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

There is no consumer price. Cartken's pivot is to sell vehicles to operator partners (a B2B hardware sale), not to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points rather than a consumer figure.

## Availability

_Status: internal-only_

Cartken sells to operator partners, not consumers. Its partners include Mitsubishi, Uber Eats, and Melco; its lineup spans the Courier (Model C) sidewalk bot, the larger industrial Hauler (2025, 660 lb / 300 kg), and an indoor Runner.

## Status

Cartken (founded 2019 by ex-Google 'Bookbot' engineers; CEO Christian Bersch) makes the Cartken Courier (Model C), a six-wheeled sidewalk delivery bot, 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. It is operator-supervised, not driverless. It has raised about $22.5 million (468 Capital, Magna International, Shell Ventures, Mitsubishi Electric), and its lineup adds a larger industrial Hauler and an indoor Runner.

**Verified deployments:**

- [Ottonomy Ottobot (sidewalk-delivery, registry profile)](https://registry.deploy.report/models/ottonomy-ottobot)
- [Refraction REV-1 (delivery, registry profile)](https://registry.deploy.report/models/refraction-rev-1)
- [Amazon Scout (discontinued 2022, registry profile)](https://registry.deploy.report/models/amazon-scout)

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Starship](/price/starship-bot) | No consumer price | absence (Captive service (private)) |
| [Serve Robotics](/price/serve-gen3) | No consumer price | absence (Publicly-traded service (NASDAQ: SERV)) |

## Common questions

### Can I buy a Cartken robot?

Not as a consumer. Cartken's pivot is a B2B hardware sale to operator partners (Mitsubishi, Uber Eats, Melco), not a consumer product; there is no consumer price.

### What is distinctive about Cartken?

Its business-model pivot: where Starship and Serve operate their own fleets, Cartken pivoted toward selling vehicles to operator partners.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: What is a sidewalk delivery robot?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-a-sidewalk-delivery-robot)
- [Deploy News: What is physical AI?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-physical-ai)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/cartken-courier.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/cartken.md)

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