Company profile
Perrone Robotics
Perrone Robotics provides vehicle-independent autonomous-driving kits and turnkey passenger or cargo vehicles. Its TONY platform supports factory-fit and r...
Facts
- Segment
- AUTOMOTIVE
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Founded
- 2003
- Website
- https://www.perronerobotics.com/
About Perrone Robotics
TONY is a modular autonomy kit designed to integrate with vehicles from different manufacturers and technology stacks. Perrone combines onboard compute, sensing, drive-by-wire interfaces and its MAX software platform to automate passenger shuttles, buses, cargo vehicles and specialist machines. Customers can procure the stack as a retrofit or as part of a turnkey vehicle configured for a defined operating domain.
Commercial deployments focus on geofenced service across campuses, downtown routes, parks, logistics hubs and public-transport networks. The company supplies both passenger and cargo configurations and supports the validation, integration and fleet work required to move from a vehicle platform to an operating autonomous service. Perrone sits at the autonomous-driving infrastructure layer because TONY is the reusable system spanning multiple third-party vehicle bodies.
Summary
Type: Autonomous-driving provider
Core: TONY autonomy kit
Function: Automate road and site vehicles
Audience: Transit and fleet operators
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Perrone Robotics marks one year of Detroit CONNECT autonomous transit operations — 2025-11-12
- Perrone Robotics and NEORide win SMART grant for six Ohio bus retrofits — 2025-05-21
- CapStone equity investment backs Perrone Robotics expansion — 2021-02-12
- Intel Capital leads Perrone Robotics Series A investment — 2016-10-24