Cyngn Deploys 4 DriveMod Tuggers at Northern California Orchard Processor
Cyngn has deployed four DriveMod Tuggers at Vann Family Orchards’ northern California processing facility to automate raw material transport between storage and processing areas. This rollout extends the company’s autonomous material-handling footprint into the agricultural processing market and follows a prior deployment with the largest independent Pepsi bottler.
1. DriveMod Tugger Deployment at Vann Family Orchards
Cyngn has installed four DriveMod Tuggers at Vann Family Orchards’ large-scale processing site in northern California, automating the movement of raw materials between storage and processing lines. Each tugger can haul up to 12,000 lbs indoors and outdoors, integrating with existing infrastructure to replace a portion of manual forklift operations.
2. Operational Benefits and Workflow Integration
The automated tuggers maintain human labor for loading and unloading while ensuring consistent throughput, enhanced safety and improved asset utilization. The hybrid workflow supports continuous material flow critical for keeping high-volume agricultural processing lines running without manual transport bottlenecks.
3. Expansion into Agricultural Processing Market
This deployment marks Cyngn’s first commercial DriveMod integration in agricultural processing, building on its recent success with a major Pepsi bottler. California’s $61.2 billion annual agricultural output highlights the sizeable addressable market as labor shortages and volume growth drive demand for autonomous material-handling solutions.