The story of our company started with a simple problem: how to deliver e-commerce parcels quickly and conveniently without forcing people to queue for hours at the post office or wait for a courier at home. Fast forward to today and we are still tackling this challenge, but our products and technologies as well as customers’ habits have changed over time.
Cleveron 355 was launched by a Swedish home furnishing retailer that wanted to use oversized parcel lockers to enhance customer proximity. This customer-focused solution was recognised in five categories and won the Omnichannel Retail Initiative of the Year at the Retail Technology Innovation Hub Awards.
We launch a modular outdoor parcel locker, Cleveron 355, for oversized goods
Cleveron appoints Per Klavsen as a new CEO
We launch Cleveron 354 the world’s first battery-powered parcel locker with 24/7 monitoring
Sweden’s largest retailer ICA, kicks off a pilot project
We create the world’s first digital agency concept in partnership with Telia
We create an augmented reality tool to remotely guide the installation of our lockers
We launch the Cleveron 351 parcel locker designed for small businesses
We launch the world’s first two-temperature food robot
We set up the Cleveron Academy in cooperation with the Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences
We launch the world’s first home parcel locker
We introduce the prototype of our first delivery robot
Walmart announces plans to install Cleveron’s robotic parcel lockers in its stores across the US
Inditex installs the first Cleveron 402 robotic parcel locker in its ZARA store
We introduce the world’s largest robotic parcel locker Cleveron 402
US retailer Walmart starts piloting our robots
We open a new office and development centre in Viljandi
Cleveron is registered as a company name
We invest in the creators of the future and feel passionate about fostering the development of tech-savvy young people. Our support for IT, robotics and technology education is manifold. We equip schools with resources and consult universities on curricula development.
We are one of the lead sponsors of the annual AHHAA RoboBattle competition that promotes science and technology education. RoboBattle is a unique robotics, engineering and mechanics competition in the Baltic and Nordic countries.
We believe that resources should be used sustainably. We help global retailers automate click & collect solutions for parcels and work every day to ensure that our parcel delivery lockers are sustainable and have the smallest footprint possible. We want to create a better tomorrow.
We develop and manufacture innovative technology for package delivery automation and invest a lot of time and resources into product development – therefore, all our products are protected by intellectual property rights.
In total, we have filed more than 200 applications in more than 30 target countries, combining various intellectual property rights, including but not limited to: copyrights, patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, service marks.
In 2010, we registered our trademark in the European Union, which was also Cleveron’s first registration with the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
A more detailed list of Cleveron’s current patents and utility models can be found in the FAQ section at the bottom of this page.
Cleveron was founded in 2007 by Arno Kütt, Peep Kuld and Indrek Oolup.
In 2000, Cleveron’s owners set up online store ON24 to sell furniture. In the early years, the company struggled to partner with logistics companies to deliver goods to customers. This led to the establishment of a dedicated logistics department in 2006, which soon became a separate company under the name SmartPOST. In 2007, the legal name of the company was registered as Cleveron. The aim of the company was to develop and sell hardware and software for parcel lockers and to set up SmartPOST’s own locker network. In 2010, SmartPOST’s locker network, the entity using it to provide logistics services, and the brand name were sold to the Finnish company Itella. After selling SmartPOST, the company pivoted to the name Cleveron, which had been registered previously, and focused on the development of parcel locker technology to make life easier and more convenient for end-customers.
The Cleveron 200 series (home parcel lockers):
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The Cleveron 300 series (parcel lockers):
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The Cleveron 400 series (vertical and horizontal robotic parcel lockers):
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The Cleveron 500 series (food robots):
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Other series:
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The Cleveron Academy was created in cooperation with the Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences. The first class of the Academy started in autumn 2019. The Academy was founded with the aim of offering higher education in the development of robotics software, which was unique in Estonia at that time. The first class of the Academy accepted 20 students interested in robotics software development.
The Academy’s classrooms are located in Cleveron’s office, giving students the opportunity to see a technology company at work on a day-to-day basis. The students’ main project is the development of autonomous vehicles. In 2022, the Cleveron Academy became the Clevon Academy, following the demerger of Cleveron’s autonomous vehicles unit, which now operates as a separate company under the name Clevon.
Clevon is the autonomous vehicles unit that separated from Cleveron in 2021. It is now an independent company. Clevon develops and manufactures autonomous, energy-efficient robotic delivery vehicles that are environmentally friendly and contribute to a climate-neutral environment.
Click & collect is an e-commerce model where the customer makes a purchase from an online store and collects the parcel from the store. This model is used by the world’s largest retailers to deliver goods to their customers. It has the advantage of free delivery, meaning that the end-customer does not have to pay extra for transport. Cleveron’s robotic parcel lockers offer an automated click & collect solution for retail, where end-users can collect their parcels within 10 seconds.
