Kakao Mobility, HD Hyundai Site Solution Partner to Build Intelligent Logistics Platform

The goal of this partnership is to move from traditional hardware-based systems to smarter, software-driven operations using physical AI.

In this collaboration, Kakao Mobility will provide its platform technology for managing and coordinating different types of vehicles and transport systems. HD Hyundai Site Solution will contribute its autonomous industrial machines, like self-driving forklifts and logistics control systems.

Together, they aim to connect equipment, software, and data into one unified system. They will also test the technology at real logistics sites and explore new business opportunities based on the results.

Kakao Mobility plans to use this partnership to expand its platform into logistics sites.

The company will use its experience in services such as robot delivery and robot valet parking, along with its transportation management system (TMS), to manage operations more efficiently.

Its goal is to connect different types of industrial vehicles used in warehouses and logistics centers to one platform and expand the use of physical AI in real-world operations.

"By combining our capabilities in unmanned autonomous industrial vehicles and logistics site solutions with Kakao Mobility's platform and service capabilities, we have laid the groundwork to lead the logistics automation and physical AI ecosystem," HD Hyundai Site Solution CEO Song Hee-jun said. "Based on this cooperation, we will accelerate automation at logistics sites and provide differentiated solutions to our customers."

Ryu Geung-seon, CEO of Kakao Mobility, said, "This partnership is a meaningful starting point for expanding the heterogeneous mobility integration capabilities Kakao Mobility has accumulated through operating robot services across various fields to industrial sites as a whole. By combining Kakao Mobility's software capabilities with HD Hyundai Site Solution's industrial vehicle and logistics solution capabilities, we will advance the logistics AX model and continue to expand the scope of physical AI technology applications."

They also want to build one unified system that can control automated guided vehicles and self-driving mobile robots. This will expand Kakao Mobility’s existing work in robot delivery and automated parking into the field of industrial logistics.

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