Perrone Robotics, Inc.

Founded in 2001 by Paul Perrone and based in Virginia, US, Perrone Robotics, Inc. also known as PRI is a robotics software company that has developed a complete full-stack and real-time capable robotics software platform for autonomous (“self-driving”) vehicles and general-purpose robotics. In October 2016, Intel Capital led an undisclosed amount of seed funding for Perrone Robotics, Inc. In February 2021, Perrone Robotics, Inc.

raised USD 10 million in series A funding led by CapStone Holdings Inc. The company’s CEO is Paul Perrone. The company develops platforms and technology for mobile autonomous robotics. The company’s vehicle independent retrofit kit TONY® (short for “TO Navigate You”), enables the safe and efficient autonomous transit of people and goods in geo-fenced and localized operations.

TONY uses the company’s full-stack autonomous vehicle software platform called MAX® and is designed for the immediate deployment of autonomous vehicles on campuses, residential communities, worksites, and downtown transit applications. The company’s modular framework allows customers to rapidly develop partially and fully autonomous vehicle and robotics applications. The company also offers a portfolio of existing turnkey autonomous shuttles and vehicles pre-integrated with the TONY retrofit kit. The company’s MAX software has been deployed in many autonomous vehicle and robotics applications.

Examples include Neil Young’s LincVolt vehicle, LIDAR-based applications at toll booths on highways to crash testing and crash avoidance robotics systems with a major insurance institute. The company's future strategies include establishing an advanced autonomous vehicle testing facility at the American Center for Mobility in Southeast Michigan to further its market and commercializing the company’s robotics software platform offerings.