Transport, Airports & Ports Robots
Automate baggage handling, cargo movement, wayfinding, and security across airports, ports, and transport hubs.
Airports, seaports, and transport terminals run on tight schedules and huge volumes of cargo and passengers. Robots handle baggage and container movement, guide travellers, and patrol terminals — improving throughput while reducing manual strain.
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Key benefits
Increase cargo and baggage throughput
Reduce turnaround times at gates and docks
Improve passenger experience and wayfinding
Extend security and inspection coverage
Frequently asked questions
What robots work in transport hubs?
Baggage and cargo handling AMRs, cleaning fleets for terminals, patrol robots for landside and airside security, and wayfinding robots for passengers.
Can robots keep terminals clean during operations?
Shanghai Hongqiao Airport runs a scrubber fleet at 21,300 sq ft per hour through live passenger flows — cutting floor-care costs 18% with laser-vision navigation adapting to crowds.
How do robots handle constantly moving crowds?
Point-cloud and LiDAR navigation built for dynamic environments — the Hongqiao deployment was chosen specifically for busy-terminal adaptability.
What's the cargo-handling case?
The same AMR economics as warehousing — $30,000–$150,000 per robot with 9–18 month payback (per our material handling data) — applied to baggage and freight movement.
Where should a hub start?
Overnight terminal cleaning and repetitive cargo routes: high-frequency, well-defined tasks where labour costs concentrate and disruption risk is lowest.
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Pudu Robotics CC1
The PUDU CC1 is a 4-in-1 autonomous commercial cleaning robot designed for small and medium-sized indoor environments. It combines sweeping, scrubbing, vacuuming and mopping in one platform, with PUDU SLAM navigation, automatic charging and optional automatic water refill/drainage via workstation accessories. With 15 L clean and waste-water tanks, up to 700-1000 m2/hour cleaning efficiency and multiple runtime modes, it is positioned for offices, commercial buildings, education, retail, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing and hospitality environments. It is best suited to indoor hard floors and short-pile carpets where customers want one robot to handle routine light-to-medium floor cleaning with digital cleaning records.
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Pudu Robotics CC1 Pro
The PUDU CC1 Pro is an autonomous commercial cleaning robot designed for small and medium-sized indoor public areas such as offices, commercial buildings, retail malls, apartment hotels and residential common areas. It combines sweeping, scrubbing, carpet vacuuming and dust mopping in one machine, with LiDAR and visual fusion positioning to support autonomous cleaning in dynamic indoor environments. For facilities teams, its main value is improving cleaning consistency and reducing routine manual intervention, while optional workstation functions can support automatic charging, water refill, drainage and self-cleaning workflows.
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Pudu Robotics MT1
PUDU MT1 is an AI-powered dry sweeping robot designed for large-scale commercial and industrial environments. It focuses on hard-floor sweeping, AI trash recognition and AI spot cleaning rather than wet scrubbing or mopping. With a 70 cm cleaning width, 35 L dustbin, LiDAR/VSLAM navigation and autonomous charging support, it is best suited to warehouses, factories, home-improvement retail, stations, airports and other large indoor areas with recurring debris. Its main value is reducing repetitive manual sweeping while maintaining cleanliness across large, dynamic sites.
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Pudu Robotics MT1 Max
The PUDU MT1 Max is an AI-powered autonomous commercial sweeping robot designed for large-scale hard-floor environments such as airports, railway stations, residential courtyards, parking garages and other controlled indoor, semi-outdoor or outdoor areas. It combines a 700 mm sweeping path, 35 L dustbin and AI-supported debris recognition with cover cleaning up to 2,200 m2/hour and Ultra Spot Clean performance up to 7,000 m2/hour. LiDAR and vision-fusion positioning, 3D perception and multi-sensor obstacle avoidance support operation around vehicles, pedestrians and animals. For facilities teams, its main value is high-area dry sweeping with 5-10 hours of runtime and optional autonomous charging, subject to flat hardened floors and restrictions on rain, snow, standing water and extreme weather.
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Pudu Robotics MT1 Vac
The PUDU MT1 Vac is an AI-powered autonomous commercial sweeper and vacuum for large, flat indoor environments, including airports, hotels, banquet halls and industrial facilities. It combines sweeping, vacuuming and dust mopping and can work across hardened floors and short-pile or industrial carpets, with LiDAR and vision-fusion navigation plus AI floor and debris recognition. The robot offers a 700 mm sweeping path, 550 mm vacuuming width, up to 1,400 m2/hour theoretical productivity and 3-6.5 hours runtime. Optional automatic charging and PUDU Link/IoT integrations can reduce charging intervention and connect the unit with building systems, while local certification, service coverage and site suitability should be confirmed before deployment.
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UBTECH Robotics Cruzr S2
The UBTECH Cruzr S2 Standard is an intelligent, cloud-based humanoid service robot designed for business environments. It excels at customer reception, guidance, and interaction, utilizing advanced navigation and multi-modal communication to enhance service efficiency and customer experience in settings like retail, hospitality, and corporate offices.
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Real deployments, real results — not projections.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
Agibot C5 scrubber fleet
Challenge: Maintaining consistent, high-frequency floor care across busy terminal spaces is highly labour-intensive and vulnerable to staffing shortages.
Solution: A fleet of Agibot C5 cleaning robots used laser-vision point-cloud navigation to adapt to dynamic passenger flows across the terminal.
Result: Delivered an 18% reduction in floor-care costs with standardised, continuous autonomous scrubbing at 21,300 ft² per hour.
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