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Zena RX
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CommercialUnited StatesFully autonomous

ST Engineering Aethon · working robot

Zena RX

Successor to the TUG T2 pharmacy robot, with side lidar, longer run time and obstacle handling Aethon says is eight times faster.

Price
—Not published
Height
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Weight
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Payload
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Speed
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Battery
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Why it matters

Zena RX is on the market today.

Real-world use

Hospital pharmacies and laboratories; no named sites in the launch release

Timeline

First shown
2024-04
Released
2024
Launched

Maker

ST Engineering AethonCompany · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Public attention

How much public attention Zena RX gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. Hospital staff load it and choose a destination; it drives the halls and rides elevators by itself.
Sensors & vision
Side-mounted lidar units plus Aethon's new navigation system, which the company says localizes and avoids obstacles eight times faster than before
Battery & power
Runs about 10 hours continuously, longer with opportunity charging
Materials & build
All-metal cabinet with physically latched doors
AI & software
Touchscreen interface; biometric and PIN access control so only authorized staff can open compartments
Other details
Four independently locking compartments (can be merged into two) with over 10,000 cubic inches of space, 2.6 times the TUG T2 pharmacy robot it improves on; can call elevators.

From the maker

Zena RX is the only machine from ST Engineering Aethon in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Where it is sold or used
ST Engineering Aethon, Pittsburgh, United States
Customers and pilots
Hospital pharmacies and laboratories; no named sites in the launch release

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Aethon launches Zena RX hospital robot

    ST Engineering Aethon launched Zena RX as a successor to its TUG T2 for secure delivery of medicines and lab specimens.

    Newswire

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

Newswire ST Engineering Aethon launches Zena RX ST Engineering Aethon Aethon

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