Andrews Cooper
US engineering consultancy founded 1999; ~200 engineers; custom manufacturing automation, robotics integration, and embedded engineering in Pacific Northwest.
Andrews Cooper is a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy founded in 1999 by Neal Andrews and Steve Cooper, formerly mechanical engineers in HP's medical division in McMinnville, Oregon. The firm employs approximately 200 engineers across offices in Bothell (Seattle area), Corvallis, Portland, and McMinnville in Oregon, plus teams in Silicon Valley. The company serves clients from early-stage innovators to Fortune-scale organizations working in regulated, high-stakes environments.
Core service lines include: (1) Custom Automation & Robotics — design and build of custom manufacturing automation, precision vision systems, advanced motion control, and robotics integration from benchtop pilots to fully automated production lines; (2) Product Development — full electromechanical product development covering mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, and test engineering; (3) Integrated Engineering Teams (IET) — expert engineers embedded directly inside client organizations for staff augmentation on complex programs.
Andrews Cooper specializes in sectors including MedTech (regulated medical device manufacturing), consumer electronics, robotics hardware, aerospace, and industrial automation. Key capabilities include system architecture, custom manufacturing automation, precision assembly, inspection systems, life testers, reliability test systems, performance validation platforms, and automation roadmapping. The company is a member of A3 (Association for Advancing Automation) and has participated in Automate trade shows.
Historically, the company grew from 5 employees in 2005 to 15 by 2010, exceeded 100 by 2020, and reached nearly 200 by 2025. Clients span MedTech OEMs, consumer electronics firms, and industrial manufacturers requiring custom first-of-their-kind automation solutions that off-the-shelf platforms cannot fulfill.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Custom Manufacturing Automation
Custom automated work cells and manufacturing lines for precision assembly and process automation
Robotics Integration & Development
Robotic product development integrating sensing, actuation, controls and embedded software
Custom Test & Lab Equipment
Purpose-built life testers, reliability test systems and data acquisition/validation platforms
Contact Andrews Cooper
WEBSITE
https://www.andrews-cooper.com/PHONE
+1 971-287-4065HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
1999
Primary Role
System Integrator
Company Size
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Primary Region
North America
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
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Funding Total
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Underactuated Robotics Russ Tedrake — RSF Specialist Shelf · Book S3 of 6
Legged robots fall over for control reasons, not mechanical ones. Tedrake's free MIT 6.832 notes explain why, and what a controller must do about it.
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The reference that treats planning as a subject in its own right: configuration space, sampling-based methods, RRT. Free online, dual difficulty 4/5-2/5.
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Siciliano's single-narrative counterpart to the Springer Handbook: kinematics through force control and visual servoing in one consistent notation. 4/5.
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Six of ten benchmark universities teach kinematics from Craig. Frames, transforms and D-H parameters: the language vendor manuals already speak.
Probabilistic Robotics Thrun, Burgard & Fox — RSF Top 10 Robot Education Textbooks · No. 7
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The book the field agreed to make free: full preprint PDF, video lectures and open code from the authors. Screw theory and kinematics, taught rigorously.
Autonomous Mobile Robots Siegwart, Nourbakhsh & Scaramuzza — RSF Top 10 Robot Education Textbooks · No. 3
AMR and AGV fleets are the biggest robot service market. Siegwart decodes the vendor manual: odometry, localization, cost maps.
