Glossary · Automation & robotics

AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot)

A self-navigating robot that moves goods or performs tasks around a facility without fixed tracks or wires, using onboard sensors to route around obstacles.

AMRs differ from older AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) in exactly this respect: an AGV follows a fixed path — a wire in the floor, a magnetic strip — while an AMR builds its own map and reroutes live around obstacles, which makes a facility layout change far less disruptive to reconfigure.

A fleet-based deployment — a dozen AMRs sharing a floor and routing dynamically — degrades gracefully when one unit goes down for maintenance; the rest absorb the load. That resilience is exactly the architecture question worth checking before assuming any single robot going offline is a crisis.

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