Meet WALBOT.

Physical AI for the world's toughest, most hazardous environments.

Software that perceives, plans and acts in the physical world, taking on the work that is most dangerous and demanding for people. Today, WALBOT finishes surfaces. Next, the same stack moves through the field.

WALBOT is an autonomous mobile robot with a collaborative arm, built to paint, sandblast and coat surfaces on-site, across variable-geometry parts and large structures. It takes over the work that is hardest on people, and does it 2–3× faster, at consistent quality.

Built for the work people shouldn't do

In aerospace, naval, energy and construction, finishing is still done largely by hand. It is repetitive and physically punishing, skilled finishers are scarce, and the results vary from one pass to the next.

It is also a health problem. Prolonged exposure to solvents and abrasives drives nervous-system damage, "painter's syndrome," skin conditions and musculoskeletal injury. WALBOT removes people from that environment entirely.

Autonomy at the core

WALBOT perceives the surface in front of it, generates the finishing trajectory automatically, and executes it, no teaching the robot point by point. An omnidirectional mobile base positions the arm anywhere around the part; machine vision and autonomous navigation build a live map of the workspace.

The collaborative arm works safely alongside people, with up to 15 ft of reach and an advanced application head for paint, abrasive blasting and additives. The result is finishing that is faster than a skilled operator and far more consistent in film thickness.

What WALBOT applies

One platform for the surface-finishing jobs that are hardest, and most hazardous, to do by hand.

One robot, three ways to run it

A very large global market

Surface finishing is not a niche. Coating and protecting what the world builds, aircraft, ships, energy infrastructure and buildings, is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and it grows every year.

Where WALBOT works

Civilian and defense

The autonomy that finishes commercial parts carries over to defense. WALBOT applies protective and specialty coatings and runs abrasive surface prep on defense aerospace, naval and ground assets, in the depot or in the field, keeping crews out of hazardous coating environments while holding finishes to spec.

Our dual-use work reaches beyond finishing: we are also developing autonomous all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) for operations in difficult and dangerous field environments, the same Physical AI stack, on the move.

From lab to the field