Peer Robotics

Peer Robotics develops collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material movement in manufacturing and logistics facilities. Its robots are designed to operate alongside people rather than in fenced or fixed automation cells: operators can teach a robot a facility layout and route by physically walking or pushing it through the site, an interaction the company compares to pushing a shopping cart, and can redirect a robot mid-route by placing their hands on it. The AMRs use lidar- and camera-based navigation, support autonomous charging, and provide external power and I/O ports.

The product line includes the RM250 (250 kg payload), the RM500 (500 kg payload) and the newer Peer 3000 platform. Packaged solutions cover pallet movement (American, European or custom pallets), movement of a customer's existing trolleys without asset or infrastructure changes, trolley tugging from autonomous pickup to drop-off of tug trains, bin and kit delivery between staging areas and assembly lines in closed-loop cycles, and machine tending. A web dashboard provides real-time fleet visibility and control, data-driven insights and role-specific interfaces for shop-floor workers and supervisors. Earlier configurations reported in 2022 included a unit carrying roughly 205-250 kg with speeds up to 1,500 mm/sec and about 16 hours (two shifts) of runtime. The company states its products are CE and ISO certified and that further certifications are in progress.

Founding story

The company was founded in 2019 by CEO Rishabh Agarwal and CTO Tanya Raghuvanshi, and was part of the STANLEY+Techstars accelerator, through which it received $300,000. The founding premise, as described by the CEO, is that manufacturing has lagged sectors such as banking, healthcare and services in technology adoption, and that robots are best suited to dull, repetitive physical tasks while humans retain faster and more flexible decision-making.

Business model

Peer Robotics sells collaborative mobile robot hardware together with a fleet dashboard and packaged material-movement solutions, positioning itself as a solutions partner rather than a hardware-only vendor. A core element of the model is removing the systems-integrator layer: the company notes that integrator or specialist engineering deployment costs can reach up to roughly 70% of an automation project, and its robots are intended to be deployed and redeployed by a customer's own frontline staff without specialist training.

Traction

As of September 2022 the company reported three customers in India and one in the U.S., five additional robots shipping to India, the U.S. and Germany, and 13 employees. A third-party profile listed 32 employees as of the most recent data. The Peer 3000 platform received the iF Design Award 2026.

Latest developments

Peer Robotics has introduced the Peer 3000 collaborative mobile robot platform, which won the iF Design Award 2026, and markets the RM250 and RM500 AMRs alongside solutions for pallet, trolley, tugging, bin and machine-tending workflows.