AutoGuide Mobile Robots company profile
AutoGuide Mobile Robots developed high-payload autonomous mobile robots for manufacturing and warehouse material handling. Its Max-N tugger and pallet systems automated movement of heavy loads, with the business later acquired by Teradyne and integrated into the MiR mobile-robot portfolio.
Facts
- Segment: Warehouse Logistics
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2013
- Website: https://www.autoguide.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Facts
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Supply chain relationships
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Sources
Summary
AutoGuide Mobile Robots developed high-payload autonomous mobile robots for manufacturing and warehouse material handling. Its Max-N tugger and pallet systems automated movement of heavy loads, with the business later acquired by Teradyne and integrated into the MiR mobile-robot portfolio.
Market context
AutoGuide is part of the AMR market consolidation story around heavier-payload logistics automation.
Facts
- Website: https://www.autoguide.com/
- HQ: Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States
- Founded: 2013
- Segment: Warehouse Logistics
High-payload AMR lineage inside Teradyne’s robotics portfolio
AutoGuide Mobile Robots developed high-payload autonomous mobile robots for material transport, including heavy-duty tuggers and pallet workflows. After Teradyne acquired AutoGuide in 2019, the company became part of the broader AMR consolidation story around MiR and industrial logistics automation.
- Target environment: Manufacturing plants, warehouses, distribution operations, assembly lines, heavy-payload transport routes and industrial material-handling environments.
- Deployment model: Acquired AMR company model built around high-payload autonomous vehicles, tugging systems, pallet movement and integration into Teradyne’s robotics portfolio.
- Customer context: Manufacturers, warehouse operators, logistics teams, material-handling integrators and enterprises needing heavy-duty autonomous transport.
- Workflow context: Tugging, pallet movement, material transport, fleet operation, industrial navigation, route automation and heavy-load movement between work areas.
- Commercial maturity: Legacy AMR company with relevance through high-payload product history and Teradyne/MiR market consolidation.
- Market position: Heavy-payload AMR specialist absorbed into a larger industrial robotics portfolio.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depended on industrial-site integration, payload requirements, safety validation, fleet software, customer ROI and competition from broader AMR vendors.
- Adjacent context: AutoGuide, MiR, Teradyne Robotics, high-payload AMRs, autonomous tuggers, pallet movement and industrial logistics automation.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2022-10-06 - Org Change - MiR and AutoGuide merge into a single AMR company under the MiR name - MiR and AutoGuide were merged into one AMR supplier under the MiR name by Teradyne.
- 2021-03-15 - Partnership - AutoGuide signs strategic partnership with Applied Integration - Applied Integration announced a strategic partnership to resell and integrate AutoGuide's mobile robots.
- 2020-10-06 - Product Launch - AutoGuide launches an autonomous high-bay robotic forklift - AutoGuide introduced an autonomous mobile robot designed to automate racking and picking in high-bay warehouses.
- 2019-11-14 - Acquisition - Teradyne completes the acquisition of AutoGuide Mobile Robots - Teradyne completed the acquisition of AutoGuide Mobile Robots and formally added the company to its automation portfolio.
- 2019-10-21 - Acquisition - Teradyne to Acquire AutoGuide Mobile Robots for $165 Million - Teradyne will acquire AutoGuide Mobile Robots for $165 million, with potential additional payments based on performance.
Team
- Rob Sullivan - President & CEO
Supply chain relationships
- deployment_partner - Applied Integration partnered to resell and integrate AutoGuide AMRs.
Relationships
- Teradyne - acquisition - Teradyne to Acquire AutoGuide Mobile Robots for $165 Million
- Teradyne - parent_company - Teradyne completed its acquisition of AutoGuide Mobile Robots.
- Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) - technology_partner - Teradyne merged MiR and AutoGuide into one AMR business under the MiR brand.
Context tags
- Warehouse AMR builder - Peer Group
- Factory AMR builder - Peer Group
- Internal logistics AMR transport - Workflow
- Warehouse AMR OEM - Stack Layer
- Factory internal transport - Workflow
- Factory material flow - Customer Environment
- Warehouses - Customer Environment
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