Applications

Aerospace Robot

An aerospace robot is a robotic system built for aerospace manufacturing or space operations, spanning large-envelope drilling and riveting arms for airframes, automated fiber placement machines for composites, and space systems such as the Canadarm2 manipulator on the ISS and planetary rovers like Perseverance. The domain imposes extreme requirements: tight tolerances over very large parts, radiation-hardened electronics, and operation under multi-second to multi-minute communication delays.

Why it matters for physical AI

Long communication latencies make space robotics a proving ground for onboard autonomy, and aerospace assembly's precision-at-scale demands push the limits of calibration, metrology, and learned compensation.