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Open Shuttle Fork Gen 2
KNAPP
Not yet assessed
- Height
- 0–1,200 mm (0–47.24 in)
- Payload
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- Verified autonomy
- not assessed
- Real deployment
- not assessed
- Status
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- Price
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Open Shuttle Fork Gen 2
KNAPPThe Open Shuttle Fork Gen 2 is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufactured by KNAPP AG, designed for pallet transport in warehouse and manufacturing environments. It features a 1,300 kg payload capacity, omnidirectional drive, natural contour navigation, 3D obstacle detection, and LiFePO4 battery supporting 8 hours of operation from a 60-minute charge. The system is managed by KiSoft FCS fleet control software with digital twin and analytics, supports VDA 5050, and has been deployed in 100+ customer projects including Fronius and QoQa. No independent third-party reviews or community reports specific to this product were found; three community-sourced 'reliability' facts in the extracted data clearly pertain to an unrelated electric scooter product (YUME) and are disregarded entirely.
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Specification
- maximum payload
- 1,300 kg (2,866 lb)
- maximum speed
- 1.5 m/s (4.92 ft/s); minimum ≤0.3 m/s (0.98 ft/s)
- shuttle dimensions
- 1,835 x 850 x 2,257 mm (72.24 x 33.46 x 88.86 in)
- loading/unloading height range
- 0–1,200 mm (0–47.24 in)
- battery type and runtime
- LiFePO4; 60-minute charge for 8 hours of operation
Price
No public price — contact the supplier for a quote.
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Evidence-graded claims from the KNAPP deep report
Kroger partnered with KNAPP to enhance capacity at its Great Lakes Distribution Center in the USA.
An independent trade news outlet (Deli Market News [10]) reported on the Kroger–KNAPP partnership at the Great Lakes Distribution Center, including named quotes from both Kroger and KNAPP executives, providing third-party corroboration of the deployment — though operational performance metrics remain unverified.
from KNAPP deep report →KiSoft Delivery Solution passed the IFOY Audit and Innovation Check, an independent industry award evaluation.
KNAPP's official site [1][11] states the IFOY Audit pass; IFOY (International Forklift of the Year) is a recognized independent industry award body with a structured audit process, lending credible third-party weight to this claim — though the audit scope and criteria details are not reproduced in the dossier.
from KNAPP deep report →KNAPP is a fully commercial, globally deployed logistics automation provider with named enterprise customers across pharmaceutical, food retail, and e-commerce sectors.
The Kroger partnership is independently reported by Deli Market News [10], and the Asung Daiso deployment is corroborated via KNAPP's newsroom with a named partner (Doosan Logistics Solutions) [11]; commercial pricing and financing options are publicly listed [7], collectively confirming fully commercial status across multiple sectors — though the full scale of global deployments is not independently audited.
from KNAPP deep report →
KNAPP's piece-picking robots (Pick-it-Easy, RUNPICK) operate fully autonomously 24/7, including unattended night shifts, with no human performing the picking task.
This claim originates solely from KNAPP's own official and commercial sources [2][8]; no independent audit, customer report, or third-party review in the dossier confirms actual unattended operation rates, exception-handling frequency, or human intervention requirements.
from KNAPP deep report →The Open Shuttle AMR starts at €45,000 per unit and delivers an ROI of 1–3 years, displacing 0.3–1.2 FTEs per robot.
The price point is stated in KNAPP's own commercial blog [7], and the ROI/FTE displacement figures are vendor-asserted in the same source [7][8]; no independent financial analysis or customer-verified outcome is present in the dossier.
from KNAPP deep report →The EcoPocket sorter achieves 100% item traceability via RFID and 100% sequencing accuracy via intelligent matrix sorting.
These specifications are stated on KNAPP's official product page [3]; no independent performance test, customer validation, or third-party audit in the dossier confirms the claimed 100% figures under real-world operating conditions.
from KNAPP deep report →
KNAPP's Open Shuttle AMR fleet continuously improves through cloud-connected cross-fleet learning via the KNAPP Brain AI platform.
This capability is asserted only in KNAPP's own commercial content [8] and official website [2]; no independent source in the dossier confirms the existence, scope, or measurable effectiveness of cross-fleet cloud learning, making this a marketing claim without corroboration.
from KNAPP deep report →
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