Carte+ · Omni Rack Robotics
Automate the Racks You Already Have. High-Performance Automation Without Rebuilding the Warehouse.
Carte+ combines rack-native robotics, intelligent orchestration, and modular infrastructure to automate storage, retrieval, picking, and replenishment within the warehouse you already operate.
The Carte+ Advantage
Create More Capacity. Without Creating More Warehouse.
Carte+ transforms compatible existing rack infrastructure into a more responsive storage, retrieval, and fulfillment environment—helping operators increase productive capacity without starting with a major facility rebuild.
Unlock Capacity
Put More of the Existing Cube to Work
Use vertical rack positions and storage locations that can be difficult or labor-intensive to serve manually, creating more usable capacity from the facility already in place.
Reduce Travel
Bring Inventory to the Work
Reduce repetitive walking and manual rack travel by moving inventory through the rack environment toward the picking, replenishment, or downstream workflow that needs it.
Scale Selectively
Start Where the Return Is Strongest
Begin with the aisle, zone, or workflow where automation creates the clearest operational value, then expand as demand, utilization, and the business case justify additional deployment.
Fit automation to the operation—not the operation to the automation. Carte+ is designed to work around compatible existing infrastructure, operating constraints, and growth priorities so automation can be introduced progressively.
The Carte+ System
Hardware and Intelligence. Working as One.
Carte+ combines rack-native robotics, modular infrastructure, and software intelligence into one coordinated system—designed to automate compatible existing rack environments without rebuilding the warehouse around them.
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Intelligent Movement
Robots
Carte+ robot shuttles retrieve and deliver totes or cartons across compatible rack levels, connecting storage directly with picking, conveyor, and buffer workflows.
Move inventory—quickly and accurately.
Rack-Native Infrastructure
Rails
Modular rails mount to compatible existing warehouse racks and guide Carte+ robots across storage and retrieval locations—without requiring a proprietary storage structure or wholesale rack replacement.
Add automation to the rack environment you already operate.
Aisle-to-Aisle Mobility
Bot Path
The overhead Bot Path allows Carte+ robots to transfer between aisles above primary floor traffic, helping preserve valuable floor space for associates, staging, and other operating workflows.
Connect aisles without consuming valuable floor space.
Vertical Material Flow
Lifts
Integrated lifts move totes and cartons between rack elevations while coordinating with robot movement, connecting upper-level storage with ground-level picking and downstream workflows.
Turn multiple rack levels into one connected material-flow system.
Unified Orchestration
Software + Intelligence
Cartesian software coordinates robots, lifts, routing, inventory movement, and workflow priorities while connecting Carte+ with existing WMS and OMS systems. The result is coordinated physical execution across the complete Carte+ system.
One intelligence layer coordinating every Carte+ movement.
Carte+ in Action
From Rack Position to Point of Work.
Carte+ retrieves inventory from compatible rack positions, moves it across levels and between aisles, and delivers it to the workflow that needs it—all as one coordinated material-flow system.
Access Inventory at the Rack
Carte+ robots retrieve totes or cartons directly from compatible storage positions across the rack environment.
Move Across Rack Levels
Robots and lifts coordinate horizontal and vertical movement so inventory can travel through multiple storage elevations.
Move Between Aisles
The overhead Bot Path transfers robots between aisles while preserving the primary warehouse floor for people and operations.
Bring Inventory to the Work
Inventory arrives at picking, replenishment, conveyor, buffer, or downstream workflows without requiring an associate to travel to the rack.
Every physical movement is part of a coordinated decision. The intelligence underneath Carte+ determines what should move, where it should go, and how the system should respond as priorities change.
Intelligence Underneath Every Movement
From Warehouse Priorities to Coordinated Execution.
Carte+ does more than move inventory. Cartesian software translates order priorities, inventory requirements, and operating conditions into coordinated physical work—then uses execution feedback to inform what happens next.
Understand What Matters Now
Orders, inventory status, replenishment needs, and operating priorities provide the demand context for the next decision.
WMS · OMS · InventoryDetermine the Next Best Action
Cartesian intelligence evaluates priorities, inventory location, system state, and available capacity to determine what work should happen next.
Cartesian IntelligenceSequence the System
Robots, lifts, aisle transfers, destinations, and workflow priorities are coordinated as one operating system rather than independent machines.
Cartesian OrchestrationMove Inventory Physically
Carte+ converts software decisions into real warehouse movement—retrieving, transferring, and delivering inventory where it is needed.
Carte+Turn Execution Into Feedback
System events, status, and operating outcomes return to the intelligence layer, providing context for subsequent decisions.
Live Operational FeedbackA Closed-Loop Operating System.
Coordinate the system in software. Validate the operation before deployment. Before Carte+ is introduced physically, Cartesian can model the proposed operation, test workflows against representative demand, and validate where automation can create the strongest value.
Validate Before You Deploy
Test the Operation Before Changing the Operation.
Before physical deployment, Cartesian can model the proposed Carte+ operation and test workflows against representative operating conditions—helping teams understand system behavior, expose constraints, and refine the design before committing to the physical implementation.
Recreate the Proposed Operation
Build a digital representation of the relevant warehouse layout, rack environment, workflows, inventory movement, and proposed Carte+ system.
Establish the operating baselineRun Representative Demand
Test the proposed system against representative order profiles, inventory conditions, workflow assumptions, and operating scenarios.
See how the design behavesFind Constraints Before Go-Live
Evaluate throughput, utilization, queueing, handoffs, and potential bottlenecks so the proposed design can be refined before installation.
Refine the design with evidenceMove Forward With Better Information
Use the validated configuration to inform equipment sizing, workflow design, deployment priorities, and implementation planning.
Reduce uncertainty before implementation- Warehouse layout and rack geometry
- Inventory locations and SKU profiles
- Representative order demand
- Picking and replenishment workflows
- Proposed Carte+ configuration
- Identify potential bottlenecks
- Compare operating scenarios
- Refine workflow assumptions
- Inform system sizing
- Establish deployment priorities
Validate the Business Case Before the Hardware Arrives.
Why Carte+
Automate Storage and Retrieval. Without Rebuilding the Warehouse.
Carte+ closes the gap between flexible mobile robotics and fixed ASRS infrastructure—bringing automated storage, retrieval, vertical movement, and aisle-to-aisle transfer into compatible rack environments while preserving more of the warehouse you already operate.
Automation in the Existing Warehouse.
HJI Supply Chain Solutions deployment results published by Cartesian Kinetics. Results are specific to that operation. Performance in other facilities depends on order profile, workflow, facility conditions, integration, system scope, and solution configuration.
See Carte+ in Your Operation
Start With the Warehouse You Already Have.
You do not need to begin with a rebuild. Start with your current racks, workflows, order profile, and operating constraints. Cartesian can help identify where Carte+ could create value and what the right first deployment should look like.
Start With the Operation. Not the Equipment List.
Automation should adapt to the warehouse—not force the warehouse to adapt to automation. Carte+ provides a path to deeper warehouse automation while preserving more of the infrastructure, workflows, and flexibility operators already depend on.