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🇯🇵 Preferred Robotics JapanShipping
カチャカ / Kachaka
Compact AMR that docks with dedicated shelves; 20 kg payload and 0.8 m/s top speed.
Reported (est.)
≈ ¥228K
🇯🇵 Japan
Preferred Robotics
Preferred Robotics
Kachaka, the compact autonomous shelf-carrying robot
- Founded
- 2021
- Robots
- 2
- Case studies
- 1
Overview
Subsidiary of Preferred Networks offering the shelf-docking AMR Kachaka and the business model Kachaka Pro, launched in February 2024. Kachaka Pro is ranked No. 1 in domestic AMR maker share in a Fuji Keizai survey and is used in factories, clinics and restaurants.
Strengths
- Low entry cost
- Factory features such as PLC integration
- No. 1 domestic AMR share (Fuji Keizai, 2026 Japan autonomous mobile robot market analysis, by 2025 units)
Latest news
Researched as of November 3, 2026. Each item links to its source.
Began general sales of Kachaka Evo, a 100 kg-payload lift-type AMR that carries existing carts, shipping from October 2026.
Source: kachaka.lifeGeek+ began selling Kachaka Pro and Kachaka Evo as partner products in its ziict program.
Source: kachaka.lifeDisclosed joint development with JR East of a robot that autonomously travels on track to inspect railway surroundings, tested on six lines since April 2024.
Source: kachaka.lifeAnnounced Kachaka Pro ranked No.1 by units in Japan's AMR market in Fuji Keizai's 2026 report.
Source: kachaka.lifeLaunched Kachaka Slim, a 260 mm-wide model for clinics that runs in 450 mm aisles and carries up to 15 kg.
Source: logi-today.com
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Launched Kachaka Fleet Manager to coordinate traffic and dispatch across multiple Kachaka Pro robots.
Source: kachaka.life
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🇯🇵 Preferred Robotics JapanShipping
カチャカプロ / Kachaka Pro
Business model launched February 2024 that carries small parts and boxes with shelves or mechanical fixtures and supports PLC integration.
Price
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Case studies
AutomotiveIn production🇯🇵 Japan ・ 2026
Kachaka Pro moves finished goods on four DENSO lines
DENSO's Takatana plant, which makes automotive meters, uses Kachaka Pro on four lines with non-powered mechanical fixtures to carry finished goods and return empty boxes, eliminating about 58 daily trips of 22 m with boxes just under 30 kg; the approach is spreading to 10 sites.
Preferred Robotics ・ カチャカプロ / Kachaka Proprtimes.jp
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