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HD-1500
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Omron · working robot

HD-1500

Omron's heaviest autonomous mobile robot, rated for 1,500 kg loads such as car chassis and pallets that forklifts used to move, with 360-degree safety scanning and fleet control.

Price
—Not published
Height
—Not published
Weight
—Not published
Payload
1500 kgCarries more than 88%
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published
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Why it matters

HD-1500 is on the market today.

Real-world use

Automotive and pallet-handling plants (target)

Timeline

First shown
2020-07-22
Released
2020-08
Omron announced sales start

Maker

OmronCompany · Kyoto, Japan

How it stacks up

Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. HD-1500Omron · 20201500 kg
  2. AM15AiTEN Robotics · 20201500 kg
  3. MiR250Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, Teradyne) · 2020250 kg
  4. TracerAgileX Robotics · 2020150 kg
  5. HUNTER (HUNTER 2.0 / HUNTER SE)AgileX Robotics · 202050 kg
  6. ServiBear Robotics · 202030 kg
  7. GeoffreyTiny Mile · 20202.7 kg
  8. Stretch (RE1)Hello Robot · 20201.5 kg

HD-1500 carries more than 88% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Payload 1500 kg 1.5 kg2268 kg #9 of 85 · carries more than 88%

Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.

Public attention

How much public attention HD-1500 gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It carries heavy loads around plants on its own under Omron's fleet manager.
Sensors & vision
Laser scanners used for both localisation and safety, with lidar-based adaptive safety zones and 360-degree coverage
Battery & power
Charges in about 39 minutes
Materials & build
Metal skins to withstand impacts
AI & software
Omron Fleet Manager controls up to 100 mixed mobile robots; improved CAPS docking alignment
Other details
1,500 kg payload for car bodies and pallet loads

Lineage

Every Omron machine in order.

  1. HD-1500HD-15002020Commercial
  2. MD-650 / MD-900MD-650 / MD-9002023Commercial
  3. OL-450SOL-450S2025Commercial

Watch HD-1500

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Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Where it is sold or used
Omron, Japan
Customers and pilots
Automotive and pallet-handling plants (target)

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Omron launches 1,500 kg HD-1500

    Omron began selling its heaviest mobile robot, built to carry car frames and pallet loads.

    Automated Warehouse

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Automated Warehouse OMRON Launches HD-1500 Mobile Robot with 1500kg Payload Capacity Omron Omron news release, 22 July 2020

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