What We Do
Aethon is focused on automating the transportation and delivery of materials within an organization. We call this internal logistics process “intralogistics”. Our product, TUG, automates intralogistics by autonomously transporting and delivering materials within organizations.



Your Challenges
Moving material inside organizations is the “last mile” for logistics. Material movement wastes significant resources and creates inefficiency.

Benefits of Automating Intralogistics with TUG
- Reduce labor costs by eliminating the tasks related to material movement. Automatically picks up and drops off carts.
- Improve worker safety by eliminating the movement of heavy loads or repetitive strain
- Create collaborative automation by connecting islands of automation as the TUG moves materials directly to where needed
- Support LEAN manufacturing by eliminating material movement waste
- Enable “Industry 4.0” automation through the integration of autonomous robotics and process flow
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TUG Delivers

Robust Navigation & Locomotion
TUG has a robust navigation system with an omni-directional locomotion drivetrain. This allows the TUG to navigate in ways other autonomous robots or AGVs cannot. It is able to work alongside people and navigate around obstacles to ensure delivery is continuous and unimpeded.

Different than an AGV
There are differences between TUG and and AGV.
This chart summarizes some of the key distinctions.
Integrating Into Production Process & Facilities
The TUG and its enabling technology allow you to integrate it directly into your production workflow, building systems and IT systems. It’s more than a robot. It allows you to connect islands of automation, provides a collaborative automation technology to assist your workforce, controls and responds to the facility and integrates to your existing MES system.

Delivery Methods:
The TUG is able to support a variety of delivery methods:
Integration into Facility:
The TUG seamlessly integrates into your facility. This enabling technology allows TUG to out-perform other transportation technology.

Supporting Change & Process Improvement Initiatives
Supporting LEAN production
TUG improves LEAN processes by addressing several “waste” areas:
- Reducing inventory by streamlining material flow
- Eliminating employee movement and material handing by delivering materials
- Reducing wait time through more predictable material movement
Industry 4.0 Transformation

Industry 4.0 is a transformation of manufacturing processes and automation that unites sensors, information technology and robotics. The TUG autonomous mobile robot is a proven “today” technology that will support the factory of tomorrow.
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