The company unveiled its "Mobile Shuttle" system at Modex 2026 on Monday (local time) in Atlanta, where the robot was highlighted for its ability to function continuously at temperatures as low as minus 26 degrees Celsius — a threshold that covers most industrial cold-chain and frozen food storage facilities. The robot has received UL certification, a mandatory safety standard for electrical and mechanical equipment in the United States.
Each shuttle unit can carry loads of up to 1,500 kilograms and travels at 1.5 meters per second along warehouse racks. The system uses a four-way directional structure — moving forward, backward, sideways, and vertically — to minimize routing constraints and boost storage density by more than 30 percent compared with conventional two-directional warehouse setups.
LG CNS has equipped the system with an AI agent that allows warehouse workers to issue commands in natural language through a chatbot interface, including for emergency dispatch situations. The AI component also diagnoses malfunctions and proposes corrective actions in real time, the company said.
"We have expanded the scope of logistics automation to cover refrigerated and frozen environments," said Lee Jun-ho, executive vice president of LG CNS' smart logistics and city business division. "We will continue to grow our global business on the strength of our differentiated capabilities in high-density, high-efficiency logistics operations."
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