Embotech is ready to roll out autonomous tractors in port applications

Moving 1m vehicles autonomously across four facilities for the BMW Group highlights that Embotech’s safety-certified Level 4 autonomous driving solutions are ready to roll out in industrial applications. “We can take all of it and directly apply it to ports,” said Embotech’s Chief Operating Officer Eva Beck.

Autonomous driving solutions company Embotech has announced it has achieved a significant milestone with the BMW Group. The automotive manufacturing giant has now moved one million vehicles around four facilities using automated driving technology, “demonstrating production-scale deployment of the Automated Diving In-Plant solution,” Embotech said.

The milestone highlights how BMW has gone from a pilot project that started in 2022 to a production-scale deployment that sees Embotech control the movement of 3,500 vehicles a day across three BMW factories in Germany and the Mini plant in Oxford, UK with more than 99.5% availability. Embotech’s technology supports different use-case across defined production and logistics areas at each of the four facilities. These include indoor and outdoor driving in areas where people are working.

WorldCargo News spoke to Eva Beck about the milestone and what it means for ports, distribution centres and other applications that are interested in autonomous terminal tractors (ATTs) for moving containers and trailers. Embotech is well placed to comment as it is currently in the process of rolling out a fleet of 30 ATTs at APM Terminals Maasvlatke II in Rotterdam. Here the ATTs will move containers between the landside end of its ASC blocks and the rail terminal, which requires mixed-mode operation with road trucks.

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