What Aurrigo International does

Aurrigo International plc is a Coventry, UK-based public company (AIM-listed since 2022 under ticker AURR) that designs, engineers and manufactures autonomous airside vehicles and supporting software for international airports, airlines and ground handlers, alongside a heritage Automotive Technology division established in 1993 (trading as Richmond Design & Marketing) that supplies design engineering, ECU/electronics, wire harnesses and electric vehicle development services to premium vehicle OEMs and Tier 1 manufacturers.

The Aviation Technology division is built around an integrated product stack: the Auto-DollyTug (autonomous baggage/cargo tractor with bi-directional sideways drive and 360-degree tank-turn), Auto-Cargo (16,500kg total payload heavy-lift vehicle), Auto-Shuttle (10-seat road-legal passenger shuttle, with the Mk2 winter-ready Level 4 variant), Auto-Pod (4-passenger low-speed pod), Auto-Dolly (autonomous baggage dolly), Auto-Sim (3D digital-twin simulation platform driven by airport flight schedules) and Auto-Connect (cloud/MEC-hosted, cyber-resilient fleet management and data visualisation platform mandated for all vehicle customers and integrated via APIs with airport BHS, flight schedule, ULD tracking and lateral assignment systems). The stack fuses LiDAR, 360-degree cameras, GPS/IMU and AI-driven perception and planning, developed in-house under ISO 26262 and SPICE safety processes.

Aurrigo generates revenue across multiple streams: hardware sales via multi-year framework contracts (£6.28m Ultra Global for 25 AGVs; £4.5m supercar programme; £1m Teesside), recurring software contracts for Auto-Sim and Auto-Connect at international airports, Automotive Division wiring harness and engineering services, grant-funded R&D (Innovate UK, CCAV, CAM Pathfinder), licensed ground handling services at East Midlands Airport, and a newly launched international licensing and hub programme (December 2025) in which partners provide working capital and market access in exchange for Aurrigo's IP and technical expertise. Customers include Swissport, UPS, Royal Schiphol Group / KLM, Changi Airport Group, Aviation Solutions B.V., CVG, Ultra Global, Tees Valley Combined Authority and Teesside International Airport, with a 110-person workforce supported by offices in Coventry, Ottawa, Cincinnati and Singapore.

Name

Aurrigo International

Legal name

Aurrigo International plc

Website

https://aurrigo.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Autonomous Airport Ground Support Equipment

NAICS

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511), Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing (33632)

SIC

Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812), Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, Nec (3728)

akta.pro primary industry

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) & Autonomous Land Platforms (IMABAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Airport Ground Support Vehicles (Tugs, Baggage Tractors, Deicers) (IMAHAIAF), Automotive ECUs/Control Modules & Embedded Electronics Manufacturing (IMACAJAC), ADAS Compute & Control Units Manufacturing (Domain Controllers/ECUs) (IMACAMAG)

Keywords

• Autonomous ground support equipment
• Airport baggage handling
• Autonomous passenger shuttles
• Fleet management software
• Automotive engineering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Coventry

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Autonomous vehicle hardware sales: One-time / multi-year framework hardware sales of autonomous vehicles (Auto-DollyTug, Auto-Cargo, Auto-Shuttle, Auto-Pod) to airports, ground handlers, vehicle OEMs and shuttle operators. Example deals include the £6.28m Ultra Global contract for 25 AGVs and the £4.5m supercar electrical-sets framework. Revenue recognised on delivery milestones.
2. Auto-Sim® & Auto-Connect® software: Software contracts for Auto-Sim digital-twin simulation and Auto-Connect fleet management/data visualisation platform, including multi-year live contracts at international airports and licensing via partnerships (e.g., Aviation Solutions BV network of 60+ airports).
3. Automotive Division contracts: Multi-year framework contracts supplying high-performance electrical systems, wiring harnesses and design/engineering services to premium vehicle OEMs and global Tier 1 manufacturers. Automotive division contributed a resilient orderbook in 2024 alongside the £4.5m supercar contract.
4. International licensing & hub programme: New revenue stream from international hub-and-licensing model launched 2025: Aurrigo contributes proprietary IP, technical expertise and operational know-how in exchange for partners providing working capital and market access in North America, South East Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
5. UK government grant-funded R&D and pilots: Grant-funded project work via Innovate UK, CCAV, CAM Pathfinder and similar programmes (£0.7m Sunderland Auto-Shuttles, £482,020 Auto-Cargo, £1m+ across four projects in 2025) used to fund pilots and de-risk commercial deployment.
6. Managed / ground-handling services: Licensed ground-handling services (under Airports (Ground Handling) Regulations 1997) at East Midlands Airport to support deployment of autonomous ground service equipment, with intention to secure additional licences at other airports.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Core offering

Aurrigo designs, engineers and manufactures autonomous electric ground support equipment for airports, including the Auto-DollyTug, Auto-Cargo, Auto-Shuttle, Auto-Pod and Auto-Dolly vehicles, together with the Auto-Connect cloud-based fleet management platform and Auto-Sim 3D digital-twin simulation tool. A separate Automotive Technology division supplies design engineering, ECU/electronics, embedded software development, electric vehicle development and wire-harness manufacture to premium vehicle OEMs and global Tier 1 manufacturers.

Product overview

Aurrigo International plc operates a two-division portfolio: an Aviation Technology division delivering a tightly integrated platform of autonomous airside vehicles and supporting software for baggage and cargo handling, and a heritage Automotive Technology division (trading as Richmond Design & Marketing / RDM, established 1993) supplying design engineering, ECU/electronics, software, electric vehicle development and wire harness manufacturing to premium vehicle OEMs and Tier 1s. The aviation portfolio is built around the Auto-DollyTug® autonomous baggage/cargo tractor, Auto-Cargo® heavy-lift cargo vehicle, Auto-Shuttle® 10-seat passenger shuttle (including the Mk2 variant), Auto-Pod® 4-passenger pod, Auto-Dolly® baggage transport dolly, Auto-Sim® 3D digital-twin simulation platform, and Auto-Connect® cloud-based fleet management and data visualization platform that orchestrates the autonomous fleet via native APIs to airport IT systems (flight schedules, BHS, ULD, lateral assignment). The Automotive division offers Software Development, Electric Vehicle Development, Wire Harness Design and Manufacture, Design and Development, Electronics, and Richmond Design and Marketing services. Together these products form a verticalized smart-airside stack spanning simulation (Auto-Sim), fleet orchestration (Auto-Connect), autonomous vehicles (Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug, Auto-Cargo, Auto-Shuttle, Auto-Pod), and customer-side support/training products like the VABO VR training layer built on Unity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Auto-DollyTug®: All-electric, autonomous baggage and cargo tractor that combines baggage tractor and airport dolly functions in one vehicle, with bi-directional sideways movement and 360-degree rotation.
• Auto-Cargo®
• Auto-Sim®
• Auto-Shuttle®
• Auto-Connect®
• Auto-Dolly®
• Auto-Pod®

Products and services

• Auto-DollyTug® All-electric autonomous baggage and cargo tractor combining the functions of a baggage tractor and airport dolly in one vehicle. Carries one ULD onboard while towing up to four conventional dollies or two cargo dollies, with bi-directional sideways drive, 360-degree tank-turn rotation, automated ULD loading/unloading via integrated robotic arms and a lithium-ion 88V battery. Mandatorily managed by Auto-Connect and deployed at Changi, Stuttgart, Schiphol, Zurich, Teesside and CVG.
• Auto-Cargo® Largest autonomous airside vehicle in Aurrigo's range, designed as a zero-emission alternative to diesel dockside truck-plus-dolly combinations. Fully electric with twin 18.4kW motors, four-wheel steering, 4,500kg onboard payload (cargo pallet or two ULDs) and the option to tow an additional 12,000kg trailer (16,500kg total). Available as fully autonomous or manually driven; functions in rain above 50mm/hour via in-house software algorithms.
• Auto-Sim® Flight-schedule-driven 3D digital twin simulation platform for airports. Creates a digital twin of airside operations to visualise, optimise and plan deployment of autonomous vehicles and manual GSE, deriving service 'missions' for every arrival/departure and supporting baggage/cargo-driven data models, configurable via database and web GUI, and runs in a browser. Also powers Aurrigo's VABO VR training layer.
• Auto-Shuttle® Ten-seat (eight-seat Mk2) fully electric, road-legal autonomous passenger shuttle. 30bhp electric motor, up to 30mph and 120+ miles of range, automatic wheelchair ramp, LiDAR and sensor suite. Mk2 variant is winter-ready, Level 4 autonomous with ASL/LSQ sign-language avatar integration via Deaf AI. Deployed at Cambridge, Prague, Solihull/Birmingham Airport, Ottawa (Kanata North), Kirkwall (Orkney), Celtic Manor PGA event, and airside for VIP/crew movements.
• Auto-Connect® Cyber-resilient cloud-based fleet manager and data-visualisation platform for Aurrigo's autonomous vehicles, hosted on Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) or on-site at the airport data centre. Connects to airport IT systems via native APIs or direct database connections (flight schedules, lateral assignments, ULD numbers, BHS status). Provides Web Admin portal and smartphone app for job requests, assignment, state of charge, ULD identifiers and operational reporting. Mandatory for all Aurrigo autonomous vehicle customers.
• Auto-Dolly® Rechargeable, battery-powered autonomous baggage transportation solution using LiDAR and multiple sensor technologies. Designed to reduce baggage and cargo loading/unloading times, improve movement efficiency, health and safety, cut manpower and reduce overall operating costs. Manufactured using existing automotive and aviation parts for supply chain resilience.
• Auto-Pod® Electric, zero-emission autonomous vehicle for transporting up to four passengers (320kg onboard payload) on off-highway shared spaces such as campuses, tech parks, stadiums and aged care communities. 48V 10kWh lithium battery, up to 8 hours run time, manual or autonomous modes (24 km/h manual, 15 km/h autonomous); operating range -10°C to +45°C. Used in the Kirkwall AutoLink trial.
• Software Development (Automotive Division) In-house software development services covering embedded controllers, mobile apps, automated driving systems, fleet management and simulation for the automotive industry. Engineers experienced in ECU hardware/software design, with testing and safety aligned to SPICE and ISO 26262 functional safety standards.
• Electric Vehicle Development End-to-end development of next-generation low-carbon, zero-emission vehicles, including electric and hydrogen-powered projects. One-stop shop for electrical systems, drive train systems and fuel cell interfaces, with in-house wiring systems, control electronics, prototyping build hall and small-scale production facilities at Coventry headquarters.
• Wire Harness Design and Manufacture Specialist design, development and manufacture of high and low voltage wiring harnesses for bespoke, low-volume and high-volume applications, manufactured at Coventry UK facilities. Operates to the IATF 16949 global automotive quality standard with PPAP, FMEA, IMDS and REACH compliance. Awarded the £4.5m supercar programme framework in 2026.
• Design and Development 30+ year heritage supplying the automotive industry with concept, design, development and production solutions for vehicle OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and niche vehicle providers. Covers vehicle concept, livery and full programme delivery.
• Electronics (ECU Design) Design, development and supply of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) for the automotive sector and other industrial applications. Capabilities span ECU hardware and software design, redesign of existing ECUs to reduce cost and improve efficiency, control modules, exhaust control flap modules, and bespoke turnkey ECU solutions.

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability12 records

Feature9 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Oxa (formerly Oxbotica): UK-based autonomous vehicle software company focused on industrial and commercial deployments, co-member with Aurrigo of the Airside Automation Group alongside IAG, Heathrow, CAA and others. Overlaps directly on autonomy stack for airside/industrial applications.
• EasyMile: France-based autonomous shuttle and tow-tractor developer (EZ10, TractEasy) competing in the same airport baggage/cargo tractor and passenger shuttle space as Aurrigo's Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Shuttle.
• TLD (Alvest Group): Global leader in airport ground support equipment (taxi-bots, belt loaders, tow tractors, dollies) and parent of Charlatte, a long-standing direct competitor to Aurrigo's Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Cargo in airport baggage/cargo handling.
• JBT AeroTech: Major US-listed supplier of airport ground support equipment (tow tractors, belt loaders, deicers, cargo loaders) and gate equipment, directly competing with Aurrigo's autonomous airside vehicle portfolio in the same airport procurement cycles.
• Textron Specialized Vehicles (TUG / Safeaero): Manufactures TUG and Safeaero brand baggage and cargo tow tractors used by airlines and ground handlers globally, directly overlapping Aurrigo's Auto-Dolly and Auto-DollyTug product category.
• Navya: French autonomous shuttle maker (Autonom Shuttle, Autonom Tract) active in airport, campus and city deployments, directly comparable to Aurrigo's Auto-Shuttle and Auto-Pod product lines.

Emerging players

• Fusion Processing: UK-based autonomy and computer-vision company (CAVstar) co-member of the Airside Automation Group with Aurrigo, building driver-assistance and autonomous driving systems for buses and commercial vehicles - overlapping on autonomy stack integration for airside applications.
• 2getthere: Netherlands-based autonomous people-mover and freight-vehicle provider (GRT, ParkShuttle) with deployments at airports and business parks, comparable to Aurrigo's Auto-Shuttle and Auto-Pod autonomous passenger and freight solutions.
• May Mobility: US-based autonomous shuttle operator and technology provider with deployments on city and campus routes, competing in the same autonomous passenger shuttle category as Aurrigo's Auto-Shuttle and Auto-Shuttle Mk2.

Broad incumbents

• Goldhofer Airport Technology: German manufacturer of heavy-duty airport ground support equipment including cargo and baggage tractors, with the scale, service network and global installed base that Aurrigo is attempting to disrupt with Auto-Cargo and Auto-DollyTug.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds28 records

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