ABOUT ARG
Embedded systems ODM — from concept to shipped product.
Years in business
Products shipped
Full vertical stack
ARG started with a simple conviction: hardware startups shouldn’t have to choose between moving fast and building it right.
Most companies bringing a new hardware product to market face the same problem — they have to stitch together a design firm, a firmware team, a mechanical shop, and a contract manufacturer, then somehow manage all of them while also trying to build a business. The result is slow, expensive, and full of gaps no one owns.
We built ARG to be the alternative. One team. Full stack. Total accountability.
We’ve been doing this since 2004 — long before “hardware startup” was a common phrase. The founder holds a PhD in electrical and mechanical engineering and has spent two decades solving embedded systems problems across automotive, medical, industrial, aerospace, and consumer markets.
That depth of experience is what lets us move fast without cutting corners.
We’ve seen what breaks.
We know what to build.
You bring us an idea — a napkin sketch, a working prototype, a failing design that needs rescuing. We take it from there.
Mixed signal, power electronics, wireless, FPGA, and sensor interfaces.
Bare metal to RTOS to cloud — cellular, BLE, MQTT, and device provisioning.
Enclosures, gantry systems, motion control, and DFM for production scale.
In-house PCBA, mechanical shop, EOL testing, calibration, and direct fulfillment.
We take care of your product from start to finish and manage the entire lifecycle — freeing you up to innovate without getting bogged down in running a product line.
We’re based at Pennovation Works — the University of Pennsylvania’s innovation campus in Philadelphia — alongside some of the most interesting startups and research groups in the region.
Our facility is fully equipped for electronics prototyping, PCBA assembly, mechanical fabrication, and end-of-line testing — everything needed to take a design from breadboard to box.
Automation Research Group, LLC
Pennovation Works · 3401 Grays Ferry Ave., B200 Suite 305 · Philadelphia, PA 19146
+1.267.819.2816 · info@automationresearchgroup.com
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