From the outside, Sherpa looks like a big drone that sprays buildings.
From the inside, what we are really building is a robot brain that can do hard physical work in places that are hostile to normal drones and robots. That brain lives on air and ground frames, drives a set of specialized tools, and gets smarter every time a robot runs.
None of this was quick. It took years of trial, mistakes, and iteration on real jobs to get to something a safety manager will approve and a contractor will trust.
What follows is the part you do not see when you just look at a photo.
(We put a lot of our content on YouTube Channel and encourage you to watch a few videos to see our technology in action.)
The core product is LucidOS, our robotics operating system. It runs on multiple frames and lets us plug in different tools without starting from scratch each time.
Most drones have a simple life. Light camera payload. Open sky. Clean GPS. Lots of space from anything that can interfere.
We pointed at the opposite problem. Heavy tools. Urban canyons. Glass and steel. Power tether. Working within inches of the surface you are not allowed to hit.
To make that work we had to build our own stack.
This is what lets Sherpa sit a short distance off a facade, in a noisy RF environment, with a live fluid payload, without wandering.
We are not trying to keep a GoPro smooth. We are trying to keep a moving nozzle in the right place while a pump is pushing up to four thousand four hundred PSI through it.