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A single Aethon robot in the AdventHealth Orlando lab made 40,592 deliveries in a year.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets TUG and Zena RX delivery robots's stage
What the source says
“Advent Health Orlando – Laboratory (Orlando, FL) – 40,592 deliveries”
What it means
TUG and Zena RX delivery robots, from ST Engineering Aethon, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on TUG and Zena RX delivery robots
- Aethon, now part of Singapore's ST Engineering, has worked in hospital deliveries for about 20 years.
- Aethon said its robot fleet at Mercy St. Louis made 297,012 deliveries between June 2023 and May 2024, the most of any of its customers.
- University Health said its logistics staff relied on a fleet of 23 Aethon robots for deliveries.
- Aethon launched Zena RX, a successor to its TUG T2 robot for hospital pharmacies and labs, with 2.6 times the storage space.
- The Sheraton Los Angeles San Gabriel hotel planned to open with eight TUG robots to guide guests and deliver items to rooms, a first of that size for a US hotel. TUG robots were more often seen in hospitals.