The frontier of heavy-lift autonomy.
EyeX’s vision layer grew out of years of frontier aerial and robotics R&D — award-recognised concepts for lifting, moving and rescuing where nothing else can reach. Scroll through the projects and the intellectual property behind them.
GroundUnit-1 — Autonomous Dozer
A tracked robotic dozer built to grade, push and clear ground where putting a person in a cab is slow, costly or dangerous. Its undercarriage slides between a narrow transport stance and a wide working stance, all the heavy mass rides a slim centre spine, and an automotive-grade 350 V battery-electric powertrain drives it silently. EyeX vision and Starlink keep it working — teleoperated or autonomous — far past the last road.
- Variable-gauge undercarriage (1.25–1.85 m)
- Battery-electric 350 V powertrain
- Vision-guided + Starlink teleoperation
- Self-docking auto-charge
Albatross — Maritime Recon Drone
A cable-tethered reconnaissance drone that launches from a vessel’s bow and flies watch overhead — switching between fixed-wing cruise and multirotor hover. A 360° camera and top-down view give the ship constant overwatch and early warning of incoming threats, most of all through narrow straits and chokepoints. Guarded by a protective cage, it descends and lands itself back on deck through computer vision as it nears port.
- Cable-tethered to a bow-mounted station
- Fixed-wing cruise + multirotor hover
- 360° vision & top-down overwatch
- Vision-guided auto-return & deck landing
Sandpiper — Autonomous Beach Cleaner
A tracked shore robot that clears washed-up algae, seaweed and litter off the sand and leaves the beach clean behind it. A perforated sieve-scoop lets sand fall straight back through the bucket and keeps only what shouldn’t be there, while a companion tracked hopper rolls alongside to haul the load away. EyeX vision tells organic drift from plastic and works the whole stretch on its own.
- Perforated sieve-scoop — sand falls, debris stays
- Companion tracked hopper runs alongside
- Vision sorts seaweed from litter
- Battery-electric & fully autonomous
VHL — Vertical Hybrid Lifter
A heavy-lift VTOL aircraft that pairs electric rotors with a turbine generator — endurance and payload far beyond battery-only drones. Conceived and prototyped by a Columbia University team, VHL reached the national finals of the 2016 Columbia University Technology Challenge as one of the most advanced heavy-lift concepts of its time.
- Hybrid electric–turbine powertrain
- Vertical take-off & landing
- High payload, long endurance
- Autonomous flight envelope
Robotic Tug — TugBot
A swarm of compact robotic tugs that magnetically dock to a vessel from several sides and act as distributed thrust. Together they amplify a ship’s power and maneuverability — steering it through narrow channels, tight harbours and shallow inlets that conventional tugs struggle to reach.
- Magnetic multi-point docking (4–5 units)
- Distributed robotic propulsion
- Precision maneuvering in narrow channels
- Electric & fully autonomous
Emergency Rescue Drones
Heavy-lift drones that carry people out of places crews cannot reach in time — wildfire fronts, mountain terrain and dense tropical canopy, where landing a helicopter first means cutting a path. The same lift and vision stack behind EyeX, aimed at getting a person to safety in minutes, not hours.
- Human-rated payload
- Autonomous obstacle & power-line avoidance
- Vision-guided placement
- Reaches where helicopters can’t land
Frontier IP, ready to build
These concepts — sketches, designs and provisional patents — are protected intellectual property. EyeX develops, partners on and licenses frontier aerial and robotics IP for the missions that matter most.
Let’s build the impossible
Whether it’s lift, autonomy or vision — tell us the mission and we’ll show you what EyeX and our R&D can do.
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