The only autonomous robot designed to work
inside aircraft cargo holds.
100,000 narrow-body flights take off every day. 70 to 80% of them are still loaded by hand, with workers crawling into 1.1 m holds and lifting 30 kg bags in extreme heat. CargoCobra is the first fully autonomous system designed to take that work off human shoulders. No human inside the hold. No aircraft modification.
OEM-validated · Government-backed · Singapore-built
Baggage handling hasn't changed in 70 years.
Inside the belly of every narrow-body aircraft, two humans crawl through a 1.1 to 1.3 m hold and stack bags by hand, flight after flight, in 45 degree heat. It is the highest-injury role in aviation, and the last manual bottleneck in the entire turnaround.
USD 18 billion annual market. 100,000 flights x 365 days x ~USD 500 average. Zero deployed automation works inside the hold without human help or aircraft modification.
CargoCobra. Built for the cargo hold. Nowhere else.
Every dimension, joint and sensor designed around one constraint: fitting and working inside a B737 or A320 belly. Drops in via the existing belt loader. No retrofit, no human, no aircraft modification.
AI machine vision
Real-time detection and pose estimation for every bag, soft, hard, oversized or fragile, inside the hold.
VLA model control
A vision-language-action model orchestrates the robot end to end. No brittle scripts, no per-bag teach points.
Adaptive suction gripper
Validated in the OEM POC. Handles 30 kg suitcases and tagged-fragile items with the same gentle grip.
Telescopic transport
Patent-pending screw-in-screw mechanism solves the geometric constraints of narrow-body holds in 1.1 m clearance.
Precision motion
Mecanum-driven omnidirectional base. Centimetre placement accuracy across the entire hold volume.
Drop-in deployment
Rolls onto the aircraft from the existing belt loader. Zero changes to ground equipment or to the aircraft itself.
OEM-validated. Patent-protected. Government-backed.
No human inside hold
The robot is the only thing in the cargo bay during loading. Eliminates the injury risk entirely.
No aircraft modification
Works on the existing fleet of 30,000+ narrow-bodies. No certification, no weight penalty, no retrofit programme.
OEM partnership
Paid POC completed and signed off in Sept 2025.
Patent protected
PCT international filing. ISR confirms all 20 claims novel and inventive, across 8 distinct concepts.
Talk to us about CargoCobra.
Whether you run ramp operations, lead a ground handling business, buy ground support equipment, or want to learn more about the project, reach out directly.