Autonomous DriveMod Tugger

  • 12,000 lbstowing capacity
  • 4 mphautonomous speed
  • Up to 12 hrsper charge

The Cyngn DriveMod Tugger is a heavy-duty autonomous mobile robot (AMR) designed to take over the most repetitive material handling on your floor, hauling full cart trains through live forklift and foot traffic without flinching. With EasyLaunch deployment, you can see it in action on your floor in under a month, driving down labor costs and keeping material moving.

The Easiest Way to Automate Repetitive Workflows

Autonomous tugger pulling palletized loads on a plant floor
Reduce Operating Costs

Nobody should tow carts all day on a highly repetitive workflow. Give the monotonous job to the DriveMod tugger. It pulls a full cart train, drops the carts at the stop, and takes itself to charge. Your people are freed up to focus on higher value work.

Run With Zero Added Infrastructure

It maps your plant with 3D lidar. No guide wire, no tape, no magnets. When the program changes, the route changes in software.

Keep the Line Fed Reliably

360° sensing tracks the people and forklifts around it and predicts where each one is heading, so the tugger keeps your line fed on a busy floor instead of stopping for everything that moves nearby.

Deploy With EasyLaunch™

EasyLaunch™ puts one tugger on a route you already run, for one monthly payment. We map the route, train your team, and have it running in weeks, not months. No capital project, no long-term commitments.

Running on floors at

  • John Deere
  • G&J Pepsi
  • Coats
  • U.S. Continental
  • Vann Family Orchards

Capabilities That Keep Your Floor Moving

Deploying our intelligent, flexible, heavy-capacity AMR gets your people off the loop and able to focus on more valuable roles that require human judgement.

Tows 12,000 lbs of Carts per Trip

  • One trip moves several loads
  • Another 500 lbs rides on the deck
  • 53" turning radius for tight plant corners

Drops Carts and Sends Itself to Charge

  • Auto-unhitch attachment drops carts at the stop
  • Stack auto-unhitch into a saved mission
  • Go-charge and return-home run automatically

360° Safety Around People and Forklifts

  • 3D lidar watches every direction at once
  • Reacts 3x faster than a human driver
  • Independent Virtual Bumper as a second stop

Control It From Anywhere

  • Control the route remotely in Cyngn Insight
  • Send it from the touchscreen on the tugger
  • Call it over from a tablet on the floor

Safety Technology

Lower operational costs with safe, reliable delivery

The Autonomous DriveMod Tugger confidently navigates high traffic facilities, moving harmoniously among people and other vehicles.

3D lidar point cloud of a plant aisle
01 · Navigation

It Intelligently Handles Obstacles

During deployment, the tugger builds a 3D lidar map of your floor. On each trip it matches what it sees against that map, tracking hundreds of objects at once and weighing thousands of possible paths every second. When a rack shifts or a cart gets parked in the aisle, it works its way around and finishes the delivery.

Autonomous tugger pulling a loaded cart past workstations
02 · Flexibility

Update Your Workflow In The Software

Change the stops, reorder them, or add a new one in the Cyngn software without changing anything on the floor. Flexibly deploy remotely or on the vehicle touchscreen, and take manual control whenever you like.

Tugger controls with emergency stop, touchscreen, and safety light
03 · Stopping

Layered Safety Systems

The 3D lidar tracks people and forklifts and predicts where they're heading. Behind it, an independent Virtual Bumper runs its own stopping checks. Your crew sees what the tugger is about to do before it does it, through color-coded lights and programmable audio cues.

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EasyLaunch™ Deployment

Automate the Back-and-Forth Route Without a Capital Request

With our EasyLaunch™ Program, you get the Autonomous DriveMod Tugger running on your floor in less than a month. See immediate ROI, lift efficiency across the whole floor, and move a driver onto work that needs one—with no capex or long-term commitment to start.

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DriveMod Tugger Overview Booklet

Get detailed specs, the full safety architecture, and case studies in this easy to share PDF booklet.

How EasyLaunch™ Works

One Monthly Payment, Everything Included

Most autonomous tuggers are sold the way any capital asset is sold: buy it outright, defend the number to a committee, then find out whether it works. EasyLaunch™ runs the other way. One payment puts a tugger on one of your workflows with no capital investment, so the floor gives you the answer before you commit to anything bigger.

What's Included:

  • The tugger, a heavy-duty Motrec with an established service network
  • The DriveMod Autonomy system and software
  • Deployment, mapping, and workflow setup
  • Training for the people who'll run it
  • Support and software updates for as long as you have it

No capex. No long-term commitments. Try it on one workflow before you expand.

The Cyngn deployment team on a plant floor with a DriveMod tugger

Book a call and we'll run your trip math: how many trips that route takes now, how long each one takes, and what that adds up to.

The Four Routes We Automate Most

We partner with floors like yours to make automating these common routes simple.

Milk Run Replenishment

The supply loop your team drives every day.

Line-Side Delivery

Keep the line fed without pulling anyone off it.

End-of-Line to Staging

Finished goods keep moving after the line's done.

WIP Transfer Loop

The handoffs between cells that slow the floor down.

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Let's Talk Through Your Route

Answer a few questions about the workflows you run, and we'll set up a quick discovery to call to discuss your options.

What's the purpose of the trip?

Restock several work areas from storage, over and over
Keep a production line fed with parts and materials
Move finished goods off the line to staging or the warehouse
Shuttle work-in-progress between cells or process steps

What can be seen on the route?

Tuggable carts
Palletized loads
Both carts and pallets
Other, a mix of stuff
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How often does this trip run?

Constantly — all shift long
Several times an hour
A handful of times a day
It varies day to day
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Biggest problem with this route?

People stuck hauling instead of higher-value work
Too much traffic on the floor
Inconsistent or unpredictable timing
It just eats hours
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Last step, get your results!

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Customer Deployment Case Study

200 Weekly Forklift Trips Fully Automated 

At U.S. Continental, employees once made 200 weekly trips moving pallets between buildings. Our autonomous tugger now handles the heavy lifting—streamlining operations and boosting efficiency.

4X

More productive than a forklift

25%

Cheaper than a forklift driver

33%

More efficient than a pallet jack
quotation-mark-light-green-01 Before Cyngn, we made 200 forklift trips a week, manually. Now, we move 4 pallets at a time and our staff focuses on value added processes like cycle counts, picking additional orders, and following up on discrepancies.
Dave Hoover VP of Technical Services, U.S Continental Chemical Manufacturer
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Book a 30-min Intro Call

See if the Autonomous DriveMod Tugger is a fit for your use case