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About Aethon

Aethon, operating as ST Engineering Aethon, is a Pittsburgh-based maker of autonomous mobile robots that automate internal transport inside hospitals and hotels. Its robots haul carts of medication, laboratory specimens, meals, linen, supplies and waste through corridors, elevators and secured doors, so that clinical and service staff spend their time on patients and guests rather than on delivery trips. The best-known platform is the TUG, a heavy-duty towing robot in service for two decades; the current line-up adds the T3 and the ZenaRx, a secure multi-stop robot built for pharmacy deliveries such as medications and IVs. Aethon sells the surrounding capability as much as the vehicle: elevator and door integration hardware, fleet-management software, project management, and a 24/7 connected help desk that monitors deployed fleets in real time.

The company states that its robots run at hundreds of customer sites worldwide and travel millions of miles a year (company-stated), with named users including large US health systems and international hotel groups. Founded in 2004, Aethon was one of the pioneers of hospital logistics robotics; in 2017 it was acquired by Singapore-based ST Engineering and now sits in that group’s land systems business, while continuing to design, build and support its robots in the United States. For partners, Aethon is a proven, single-source option for automating facility intralogistics in healthcare and hospitality, two sectors where reliability and building integration decide success.

Products & services

• TUG autonomous mobile robots for cart transport (medications, meals, linen, supplies, waste)
• ZenaRx secure delivery robots for pharmacy and laboratory transport
• T3 autonomous mobile robot platform
• Elevator, door and building-system integration hardware
• Fleet-management software, project management and 24/7 connected fleet support

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