XOTAR Corporation develops advanced robot perception and control technologies empowering robots with the visual intelligence required to perform meaningful and valuable autonomous missions in support of challenges facing businesses, consumers and governments. The company engineers embedded software, electro-opto-mechanical systems, as well as complete robotic systems. XOTAR's first product will enter the marketplace in late 2011.
Today’s robots and autonomous systems largely fit into two categories, remotely controlled platforms, and systems with highly task specific programming. Both of these categories significantly limit the deployment scale of robots. Remotely controlled robots require a human trained relative to the robots sensing and control functions as well as the tasks the robot is to perform. This works feasibly for specialized task domains like hazardous environments, defense systems and robotic surgery, however, the deployments are limited to applications that can afford the full time human being required for sensing and control. Often times, several trained humans are required for remote supervision of a single robot on a single mission. This era of robotics technology does not scale well. The key to unlocking economic feasibility is intelligence, and the core of that intelligence is visual perception.
Initially, XOTAR’s technologies will be applied to Intelligent Security Systems and Autonomous Systems, including ground, aquatic and aerial vehicles with applications in agriculture, manufacturing automation, aerospace, defense, security and consumer electronics.
