Automated Delivery Robots for Factories and Warehouses
An automated delivery robot is a self-driving mobile robot that transports materials between fixed points inside a factory, warehouse or building — without rails, magnetic tape, floor markers or a driver. It navigates by 3D laser SLAM, stop within ±10 mm of the target point, and can be commissioned in about 10 minutes.
What is an automated delivery robot?
An automated delivery robot is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that carries goods from one point to another inside a building, planning its own route and avoiding people and obstacles as it goes.
The category sits between two older technologies. A conveyor moves goods reliably but only along the path it was built on; changing it is an engineering project. A forklift or tugger goes anywhere but needs a trained operator for every trip.
An automated delivery robot keeps the flexibility of the second without the labour of the first. It receives a destination, works out its own path, and delivers. Change the destinations and the traffic pattern changes with them — usually as a configuration change rather than a construction project.
AMR versus AGV. A traditional AGV (automated guided vehicle) follows a fixed guide path — magnetic tape, an embedded wire, or a painted line. It cannot deviate. An AMR builds a map of the building and localises against it, so it can route around a pallet left in the aisle instead of stopping in front of it.
The SEER P Series robots are AMRs. They use laser SLAM against the building’s own structure, so no tape, wire, reflectors or floor markers have to be installed before they run.
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Every delivery is the same four-step cycle: receive a task, plan a route, travel while avoiding obstacles, and hand the load off at the destination.
Receive the task
An operator taps a destination on the robot's screen, sends it from a phone, or an upstream system (WMS, MES, ERP) issues it over the API. A call terminal at the pick-up point works too.
Arrive and hand off
It stops within ±10 mm and ±0.5° of the target point and releases the load — jacking down a rack, lowering forks, running a conveyor top, or simply waiting to be unloaded.
Localise and plan
The robot locates itself on its stored map using 3D laser SLAM, then plans a route. Maps of up to 400,000 m² are supported in a single map, so one map can cover a whole site.
Pass through the building
Where a route crosses floors or fire doors, the robot calls the lift and opens the door itself over the IoT integration — elevators, doors, gates and access control.
Travel and avoid
A head-mounted 3D lidar and obstacle camera scan 360° horizontally with a tall vertical field; two 2D safety lidars cover the chassis front and rear. The robot slows, routes around, or stops.
Recharge and repeat
It returns to a charging dock on its own when idle.
Where automated delivery robots are used
The economics work wherever the same move is repeated many times a day over a fixed distance — which is most of what happens on a factory or warehouse floor.
Line-side supply
Feeding parts, kits and consumables to assembly stations on a fixed cadence, and clearing finished work away. Scheduled and looping tasks match the line's own rhythm.
Dock to warehouse
Moving inbound pallets from the receiving dock into the racking area, and staging outbound pallets for loading — the P1500's core job.
Point-to-point delivery
The simplest deployment: one robot, one route, a screen tap to dispatch. Often the pilot that proves the case before a fleet is bought.
Warehouse to production line
Long cross-site runs between storage and manufacturing. A single map covers up to 400,000 m², so the route does not have to be broken into segments.
Inter-zone transfer
Connecting areas that are close together but separated by doors, lifts or fire barriers. The robot opens and calls them itself.
Multi-floor buildings
Elevator integration lets a route cross floors unattended, which matters in retrofitted buildings never designed around material handling.
Connecting to existing systems
The robots expose an open API for task dispatch and status, so a WMS, MES or ERP can issue deliveries directly rather than through a parallel process.
On the building side, IoT integration covers elevators, doors, gates and access control, so a route can cross a controlled boundary without a person holding it open. Call terminals at pick-up points let floor staff request a robot without touching a computer.
The robot accepts a range of top modules — roller conveyor, cabinet, shelf, pallet and bin frame — so one chassis covers several load types.
There is no production line to modify and no local server to build. Basic configuration and the first delivery task take about 10 minutes out of the box — a figure measured on a single unit in a standard scenario of roughly 200 m². Larger or more complex sites take longer to map and tune.
Because the robots run 7 × 24 with automatic recharging, output per unit is high relative to a manually driven equivalent. SEER quotes payback from 6 months in favourable cases; the real figure depends on shift pattern, distance and labour cost, and is worth modelling against your own numbers.
P300
P1500
Frequently asked questions
An automated delivery robot is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that transports materials between points inside a building without a driver and without fixed guide paths. It receives a destination, plans its own route, avoids people and obstacles along the way, and hands off its load on arrival.
An AGV follows a fixed guide path such as magnetic tape, a buried wire or a painted line, and cannot leave it. An AMR builds and localises against a map of the building itself, so it can plan a new route around an unexpected obstacle. The practical consequence: an AGV stops when a pallet blocks its line; an AMR drives around it.
The robots has a rated load of 300 kg – 1500kg and carries standard three-runner pallets on integrated forks.
The robot (P300 series) needs a minimum passage width of 580 mm and turns within a 988 mm circle. Another robot (P1500 series) needs 990 mm to travel, turns within 1,680 mm, and needs 1,800 mm to pick and place a pallet at a right angle. These are unusually tight for a 1.5-tonne pallet vehicle and are the reason most sites can deploy without widening aisles.
It stops within ±10 mm of the target position and within ±0.5° of the target heading. That is close enough for automatic transfer to a conveyor, a fixed station or a rack without a person aligning the load.
No. Robot uses laser SLAM free navigation, mapping and localising against the building’s existing walls, racking and structure. Nothing is installed in or on the floor before deployment. Reflector-based navigation is available as an additional feature where a site’s geometry makes it useful, but it is not a requirement.
About 10 minutes from unboxing to running the first delivery task. That figure is measured on a single unit in a standard scenario of roughly 200 m² — a larger or more complex site takes longer to map and tune. No production line changes and no on-site server are required.
The P300 series runs a 48 V / 20 Ah lithium iron phosphate pack, giving about 8 hours unloaded. It charges from 10% to 80% in under an hour and docks itself automatically when idle, so it sustains 7 × 24 operation without being taken out of service. Cycle life is rated at 1,500 cycles or more.
The P1500 series uses hot-swappable batteries instead: a pack is exchanged in about 30 seconds with no power interruption and no connector to unplug by hand, which suits continuous multi-shift operation.
Yes — both are designed for mixed human and robot traffic. Sensing is layered rather than singular: a head-mounted 3D lidar scanning 360° horizontally with a tall vertical field, an obstacle camera for dynamic object tracking and foot protection, and two 2D safety lidars on the chassis front and rear. A physical emergency stop cuts drive power independently of the software. Ambient lighting, turn indicators and a voice system signal the robot’s intent to people nearby.
Yes. IoT integration covers elevators, doors, gates and access control, so a route can cross floors or controlled boundaries unattended. This is what makes multi-floor and retrofitted buildings viable without a person escorting the robot.
Yes. The robots expose an open API for task dispatch and status reporting, so an existing system can issue deliveries directly. Tasks can also be created from the robot’s own screen, from a phone, or from call terminals placed at pick-up points — useful where floor staff are not at a computer.
It paybacks from 6 months in favourable cases, driven by minimal deployment cost and 7 × 24 running. The honest answer is that ROI depends entirely on your shift pattern, transport distance, move frequency and local labour cost. Treat 6 months as a best case and model it against your own volumes before committing.
The P300 accepts several standard top modules — roller conveyor, cabinet, shelf, pallet and bin frame — and an optional jacking platform (680 × 460 mm) that lifts a rack or trolley 60 mm in about three seconds. The P1500 is a dedicated pallet handler with integrated forks.
Yes, and that is the usual path. A single robot on one route proves the case; the same hardware and software carry forward as more are added. The P1500 is explicitly field-upgradable to full AGV fleet operation, so a pilot does not have to be replaced to become a fleet.
Both are made by SEER Robotics (Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology), founded in 2020 and headquartered in Shanghai, with subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Germany, Wuxi, Shenzhen and Chengdu. The founding team came out of Zhejiang University and won the RoboCup robot football world championship three times. Investors include GLP Hidden Hill Capital, China Growth Capital, Ecovacs, IDG and SAIF Partners.
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