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Aethon is a robotics company founded 1967, based in United States, developing 5 robots primarily in the Warehouse AMR category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Aethon has no confirmed funding round on file and has 2 deployments on record, 1 maker-verified.
Shipped
4named customers · 2 tied to a specific robot
1 maker-verified · on 1 robot
- SUNY Upstate Medical University (Upstate University Hospital), Syracuse NY· United States· TUGaethon.com ↗
- UNC Hospitals (UNC Health Care), Chapel Hill NC· United States· TUGnews.unchealthcare.org ↗
Also cited
- Mercymercy.net ↗
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Sheraton LA· United Statestherobotreport.com
- Department of Veterans Affairs· United Statesusaspending.gov
Autonomous mobile robots for healthcare and hospitality
Aethon makes autonomous mobile robots including the TUG and T3/T3XL systems, which transport carts, supplies, linens, meals, and medications in hospitals and hospitality settings. The company is based in Pittsburgh and also operates in Singapore, serving healthcare and hospitality buyers with AMRs designed to move goods and reduce staff transport work.
Company facts
- HQ
- Pittsburgh, United States
- Founded
- 1967 · 59 yrs
- Website
- aethon.com
RoboScore
61.65 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #2 of 42·Hospitality·best robot 70.71 + depth 1.67 + news 0.00 = total 72.38
- #24 of 43·Delivery·best robot 52.18 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 52.18
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Milestones
Aethon launched its Cloud Command Center for remotely guiding TUG robots.
Aethon was established in 1967.
Press coverage
- Aethon vendor profile
Mobile Robot Directory
- T3 Autonomous Mobile Robot
Aethon
- TUG Autonomous Mobile Robots
Mercy
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
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Active products by Aethon
5 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | TUG | Hospitality | Payload 453 kg·Runtime 10 hr | $107.5K | 2022 | 70.7 |
| 2 |  | T3 | Warehouse AMR | Payload 453.6 kg | — | 2015 | 65.4 |
| 3 |  | T3XL | Warehouse AMR | Payload 250 kg·Runtime 12 hr | — | 2017 | 55.0 |
| 4 |  | Zena™ Hospitality Robot | Hospitality | Runtime 10 hr | — | 2024 | 54.8 |
| 5 |  | Zena RX | Delivery | — | — | 2024 | 52.2 |
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