The Robotics & AI House

Profile

The Robotics & AI House builds the surveillance chain as connected parts rather than a single sealed product. At the platform end sit a 3.6 kg backpack-portable surveillance quadcopter with 50 minutes of endurance and a 21 kg tethered drone that stays up for 12 hours on ground power. In the middle sit the sensors: a family of gyro-stabilised EO/IR gimbals from 750 g to 5.2 kg with stabilisation accuracy better than 150 microradians, long-range EO/IR pan-tilt cameras that detect a person at 10 km by day, a thermal weapon sight and a helmet-mounted vision system for military working dogs. Underneath sit the electronics that most drone programmes import without thinking: an edge flight controller with dual redundant IMUs, a dual-band GNSS module accurate to 1 m CEP, a 300 A current sensor calibrated to ±0.039% and a 100 A power-distribution board, all speaking DroneCAN and running ArduPilot or PX4. On top sits AI video analytics: runway debris detection down to 7 mm, perimeter surveillance, aircraft tracking and recognition, and man-overboard detection, trained on RGB, infrared and point-cloud data and deployed at the edge.

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Positioning

This maker covers the full airborne surveillance chain: unmanned platforms, the gyro-stabilised EO/IR sensors they carry, the flight-control and power electronics inside them, and the AI video analytics that turn camera feeds into alerts. A buyer can take the whole chain or any layer of it, and each layer runs on open standards: ArduPilot, PX4 and DroneCAN rather than a proprietary lock-in.

Why through Unstrat

A surveillance programme usually means one vendor for the drone, another for the camera, a third for the analytics, and an integration argument between all three. Through Unstrat, the chain would arrive already integrated, from one accountable team, without the political exposure a major-power surveillance supplier carries.

Portfolio in depth

The range divides into four layers that most vendors sell separately. Platforms: a 3.6 kg surveillance quadcopter, carbon fiber and aluminium, 50 minutes of flight, 5 km range, BVLOS-ready, carried in a backpack; and a 21 kg quad co-axial tethered drone that draws power down a 120 m extendable tether and holds station for 12 hours, with 10 to 12 minutes of battery reserve if the tether drops. Sensors: seven gimbal models from a 750 g dual-sensor unit to a 5.2 kg cooled-MWIR system with a 275 mm zoom and a 5 km-class laser rangefinder, all stabilised to better than 150 microradians; two 12 kg IP66 pan-tilt EO/IR cameras for fixed and vehicle masts, one with a 50 mm fixed thermal lens and one with a 15-75 mm thermal zoom, both detecting a person at 10 km on the day channel; a shutterless 640x480 thermal weapon sight under 880 g with six hours of runtime; and a dual-camera helmet mount for military working dogs with night vision, GPS and a 1 km non-line-of-sight video and audio link. Electronics: an H7-class flight controller with dual IMUs, an aviation-grade dual-band GNSS compass module with 1 m CEP, a 20-bit current sensor calibrated to ±0.039% of full span, and a 100 A power-distribution board, all DroneCAN, all supported in ArduPilot and PX4. Analytics: edge-deployed computer vision for runway foreign-object detection at 7 mm, automated aircraft tracking and friend-or-foe recognition, perimeter and critical-area surveillance, suspect-vehicle tracking, wildlife monitoring and man-overboard detection.

How an engagement runs

The first conversation establishes which layer of the chain the buyer actually needs, because the answer is rarely all of it. A force with existing drones may need only gimbals and analytics; an airfield may need cameras, masts and the FOD-detection stack with no aircraft at all; a drone programme may need the flight-control electronics and nothing visible from outside. Requirements then get specified against the operating environment rather than the brochure: which detection, recognition and identification ranges the terrain and climate actually demand, which frequencies and datalinks the spectrum plan allows (alternative datalink and frequency ranges are supported on request), and what the analytics must integrate with, since the video systems are built to work with existing camera networks rather than replace them. Demonstration follows in the buyer's conditions, not the factory's. Delivery includes ground-control stations, operator and maintainer training, and custom firmware development where a programme needs the electronics adapted. Because the whole stack runs open standards, the buyer's engineers can extend it rather than petition for changes, and sustainment runs through one accountable channel with export controls and end-use approvals observed throughout.

What buyers weigh

Surveillance procurement fails in predictable places, and buyers who have been through it weigh four things. First, stabilisation and range figures under real conditions: a gimbal specified at 150 microradians and a DRI table quoted against defined target sizes can be verified in a trial, and should be, because optics is a field where brochure numbers and delivered numbers part company easily. Second, openness: a drone stack locked to a proprietary autopilot leaves the buyer renegotiating with one vendor for every change, whereas ArduPilot, PX4 and DroneCAN mean the electronics can be maintained, extended and audited by the buyer's own people. Third, the analytics question every camera project eventually asks: who watches the screens? Alert-driven video analytics with low false-alarm rates is the difference between a surveillance system and a wall of unwatched monitors, and it should be tested against the buyer's own footage. Fourth, political exposure: airborne surveillance is exactly the category where a major-power supplier's export gates, data-handling terms and diplomatic weather matter most, and an independent, non-aligned source removes that variable from the programme.

Why route it through Unstrat

Unstrat is the authorised global representative and distributor for the capabilities on this page. Each one is already in service with a track record behind it, so what reaches you has done the job elsewhere. You are not the test bed for a fresh startup.

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