AutoGuide Mobile Robots hires VP of sales and marketing

AutoGuide Mobile Robots, Chelmsford, Mass., a provider of high-payload autonomous mobile robots, has appointed Mike Harper as vice president of sales and marketing.

Harper previously served as vice president of sales and application engineering at Soft Robotics Inc. and sales director for Festo US. He also has served as the director of sales, Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan for Adept Technologies and the vice president of business development and sales for Bodine Development & Test Systems. Harper holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from East Carolina University.