Shiplink, a logistics partner of RobotX, has deployed RobotX quadruped inspection robots at its logistics yard. The robots walk scheduled patrol and inspection rounds through the yard's container stacks, truck lanes, and loading areas, streaming video back to the operations team and flagging anything that does not match the expected state of the site. It brings RobotX's inspection platform to a live freight operation, running day-to-day rounds alongside working trucks and crews.
On the ground
Each robot carries an inspection payload with a camera mast, a warning beacon, and onboard compute. On a round it follows a set route past container rows, trailer parking, and dock doors, pausing at checkpoints to capture imagery, and the legged platform takes uneven asphalt, speed bumps, and drainage ramps without slowing the round. The operations team watches a live feed and receives an alert when the robot sees something out of place, such as an unexpected vehicle, an open gate, or a person in a restricted area.
Why a legged robot
Logistics yards are large, outdoor, and in constant motion. Wheeled robots stall on curbs and ramps, and fixed cameras leave blind spots between stacked containers. A quadruped walks the same ground a security officer would, carries its cameras to wherever the view is needed, and runs the round the same way every time. For Shiplink, that means continuous coverage of areas that were previously checked only periodically, and fewer people walking active truck lanes.
Running on Xmind
The deployment runs on RobotX's Xmind autonomy stack, the same perception and navigation layer behind RobotX's other field deployments. Xmind builds a live 3D understanding of the yard, plans routes around parked trailers and moving trucks, and recovers when a lane is blocked, with no site-specific programming. Because the stack is hardware-agnostic, the same software can move onto other chassis as Shiplink's needs change.
What comes next
RobotX and Shiplink will continue to expand the deployment, adding routes and inspection checkpoints as the robots take on more of the yard. We will share more as the deployment scales.