Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company that develops and deploys DriveMod autonomous vehicles for material handling operations. The company's core focus is industrial automation, specifically DriveMod Tuggers and Forklifts designed for factories and warehouses across North America. These are deployed production systems serving manufacturing, logistics, aerospace, and automotive industries - not research prototypes or pilot programs.
The DriveMod platform addresses material handling workflows in structured industrial environments. Engineers at Cyngn work on the full stack of autonomous vehicle development, spanning perception, motion planning, controls, and integration with existing warehouse management systems. The technical challenges involve navigating dynamic factory floors with human workers, coordinating multi-vehicle operations, and achieving the reliability standards required for continuous production environments.
As a publicly-traded company with under 100 employees, Cyngn operates with the resource constraints typical of a smaller organization while maintaining the reporting requirements and financial transparency of a public entity. The engineering team deploys systems directly to customer sites across North America, working closely with company leadership including CEO Lior Tal. The scale of deployment and the operational focus on real-world material handling distinguishes the company's engineering work from purely research-oriented autonomous vehicle development.