Autonomous vehicles now in a warehouse near you.

Clearpath Robotics, a global designer of field and service robotics, has built a self-driving warehouse robot: OTTO. OTTO is designed for intelligent heavy-load transport in industrial environments and is intended to deliver improved throughput and decreased operating costs.
Modern factories and warehouses need to be reconfigurable, responsive and efficient to meet the growing demand for product customization; they need to maintain an edge against low-cost offshore competition.
Traditional automated guided vehicles – or AGVs – required costly and rigid changes to infrastructure, cannot easily adapt to changing environment, and are not safe to work with, or around, warehouse personnel.
As Google’s autonomous car, OTTO requires no fixed infrastructure to safely navigate in facilities – no bar codes, no magnetic tape, no beacons. It operates fully autonomously using our state-of-the-art mapping and localization software, intelligently avoiding obstacles and optimizing travel time to loading and docking stations. As operations change and the facilities are reconfigured, OTTO can easily adapt.
OTTO does not rely on external infrastructure for navigation, making implementation hassle-free and highly scalable. It can transport 3,300-lb loads at speeds up to 4.5 mph, while tracking along optimal paths and safely avoiding collisions.
“North American manufacturers are constantly under pressure to find new ways to gain an edge against low-cost offshore competition. Traditional automation is saturating.  But what about the more complex tasks too difficult or expensive to automate?” said Matt Rendall, CEO and co-founder of Clearpath Robotics.  “We created OTTO to reinvent material transport and give North American manufacturers a new edge.”
Applications for OTTO include moving pallets in a warehouse or cross-dock, and for kitting or assembly line delivery. OTTO’s modular design allows facility operators to easily swap out standard industry appliances to address a wide-range of assembly line configurations.