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Tennant Company

Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC) is a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of industrial and commercial floor cleaning machines and autonomous mobile robots, with $1.29…

Founded
1870
HQ
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Status
public (NYSE: TNC)

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Tennant Company: 2 models, 2 deployments across 1 region. 2 sources back the record.

Overview

Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC) is a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of industrial and commercial floor cleaning machines and autonomous mobile robots, with $1.29 billion in 2024 sales and approximately 4,500 employees. Tennant partnered exclusively with Brain Corp to accelerate robotic floor cleaning innovation, generating $85M in annual robotics sales with $27M in autonomous mobile robot sales in Q1 2025 alone. The company has manufacturing operations throughout the world and is a leader in the commercial cleaning robotics market.

Verified record

Verified deployments
2 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Focus

Floor-cleaning-equipment maker

Stage

Publicly traded on NYSE under ticker TNC

Robot

X4 ROVR is its first purpose-built autonomous robotic scrubber

Technology

Designed from the ground up for Brain Corp's BrainOS

CEO

David W. Huml (President & CEO since March 2021)

Revenue

$1.29 billion (2024)

Robotics sales

$85M annually ($27M Q1 2025 AMR sales)

Employees

approximately 4,500

Robotics partner

Brain Corp (exclusive technology agreement)

Data & sources

Web sources

2

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Partnerships

Every company Tennant Company has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1 total1 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Brain Corp1× joint6 total

Most recent

  1. with Brain Corpoperating

Tennant Company on the deployment map

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Tennant Company, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What are commercial cleaning robots and how do they work?
Commercial cleaning robots are autonomous floor scrubbers, vacuums, and mopping machines deployed in airports, shopping malls, warehouses, hospitals, and office buildings. The category divides along a platform axis: BrainOS-powered robots (Tennant AMR, SoftBank Robotics Whiz) license autonomy software from Brain Corp, while own-stack makers (Avidbots, Gausium, Karcher, LionsBot) develop their navigation internally.Read the full explainer →
What is Brain Corp BrainOS and which cleaning robots use it?
Brain Corp is a San Diego-based AI company founded in 2009 that develops BrainOS, an autonomy software platform licensed to commercial cleaning robot OEMs. Tennant Company and SoftBank Robotics are the two largest BrainOS partners at commercial deployment scale. SoftBank Group is a major Brain Corp investor. BrainOS powers both teach-and-repeat (Whiz) and full-SLAM (Tennant T16AMR) autonomy modes.Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (1)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Tennant Company.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Tennant Company in third-party press

Peers

149 peers across 2 segments. Every Tennant Company competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

service(144)

113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%

cleaning robot(5)

  • Avidbotsdirect competitor(reported)
    moderate
  • Gausiumdirect competitor(reported)
    moderate
  • ICE Coboticsdirect competitor(reported)
    moderate
  • Karcherdirect competitor(reported)
    moderate
  • LionsBotdirect competitor(reported)
    moderate