Kakao Mobility is partnering with HD Hyundai XiteSolution to expand the physical artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem into logistics sites.
Kakao Mobility said on the 19th that it signed a strategic cooperation MOU with HD Hyundai XiteSolution for building a next-generation unmanned logistics and physical AI ecosystem.
Through this agreement, Kakao Mobility's capabilities in integrated control of heterogeneous movers, task optimization, and a transportation management platform will be combined with HD Hyundai XiteSolution's unmanned autonomous industrial vehicles (forklifts) and logistics control solution technologies. The core is to build an integrated system that connects equipment, platforms, and data into one.
The two companies plan to jointly promote platform linkage and proof of concept (PoC) in real logistics sites. Based on the data secured through this, they will develop new business models and seek global business opportunities.
Through this cooperation, Kakao Mobility will extend its platform-based integrated control capabilities to logistics sites. Leveraging its experience operating movers accumulated in robot-linked services such as robot delivery and robot valet parking, and its increasingly sophisticated transportation management system (TMS), the company plans to connect various industrial vehicles at logistics sites with the platform and broaden the application scope of physical AI technology.
Specifically, it will focus on creating a seamless work optimization environment by linking the entire logistics process—from ordering to middle-mile transport on the road to in-warehouse operations—into a single platform. Starting with unmanned forklifts, the company plans to establish a standard for a next-generation logistics platform ecosystem that can integrate and manage a wide range of heterogeneous unmanned movers—such as automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)—on a single platform.
Ryu Keung-sun, CEO of Kakao Mobility, said, "This cooperation is a meaningful starting point for expanding the integrated capabilities of heterogeneous movers across industrial sites," adding, "By combining Kakao Mobility's software capabilities with HD Hyundai XiteSolution's industrial vehicle and logistics solution capabilities, we will advance the logistics AX model and continue to expand the scope of applying physical AI technology."