Shimizu Corporation · working robot
Robo-Carrier
An automatic material carrier that locates itself with lasers against BIM data, rides the temporary elevator and delivers pallets to the right floor, about 1 tonne of plasterboard in lab tests.
- Price
- —In-house system, not sold
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 1000 kgCarries more than 77%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Part of Shimz Smart Site, Shimizu's system in which autonomous robots work alongside crews on a high-rise.
Real-world use
Used on the Karaksa Hotel Grande Shin-Osaka Tower site from late 2018, moving plasterboard at night.
Timeline
- Released
- 2018
Maker
Shimizu CorporationCompanyHow it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Robo-Carrier carries more than 77% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Robo-Carrier gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
Lineage
Every Shimizu Corporation machine in order.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedIn-house system, not sold
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Robo-CarrierShimizu Corporation |  Hadrian XFBR Ltd (Fastbrick Robotics)Same job: construction · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Autonomous Caterpillar 725 articulated dump truck retrofitSafeAI with Obayashi CorporationSame job: construction · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Canvas drywall finishing robot (Canvas Finishing System)Canvas (core technology acquired by JLG Industries, 2026)Same job: construction · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
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| First shown | 2018-04-24 | 2018-06 | 2020-10 | 2020-11 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial | Pilot use | Commercial |
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| Payload | 1000 kg | 45 kg | — | — |
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Sources
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