A modular mobile manipulator that picks, sorts and moves work in warehouses, greenhouses, stores and, one day, on the Moon. It never stops to charge.
A Remus arm docked on a Romulus base. Together they drive to the shelf, pick, and carry the work away.
Romulus moves. Remus works. Docked together they are Octavious, a mobile manipulator. Apart, one base can serve several arms and Dock-Bots.
An omnidirectional underride chassis that drives under any module, lifts it on four pins and carries it. Front LiDAR handles SLAM navigation. A six-chamber battery revolver swaps packs into whatever it docks with.
A lift mast with a two-link SCARA arm and a three-finger, 7-DOF hand. Parked, it runs on its own battery as a fixed station. Docked, Octavious becomes a mobile shelf picker.
Packing tables and box carts built on the Remus footprint. Romulus docks under any Dock-Bot and moves work between stations without fixed conveyors. The dock is the product.
Specifications are design targets for the concept and will change as the prototype is built.
The same Romulus bases, Remus arms and Dock-Bots run every job below. Only the end effector, the racks and the destinations change. Pick a world to load it into the simulation.
Remus pickers ride Romulus down the aisles and pick from two shelf levels into an onboard tote. Sorters pack each item into one of four destination boxes, and Romulus swaps full Dock-Bots out to the dock doors.
Harvesters work the grow tables row by row, picking tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and aubergines. Graders sort by crop into crates, and Romulus carries full crate Dock-Bots into the cold room.
Overnight or in quiet hours, Octavious picks online orders straight from the store shelves. Packers split items into four customer bags, and Romulus delivers them to the collection lockers.
In one-sixth gravity, loaders pull ice cores, regolith samples, minerals and seed stock from supply bays. Sorters crate them for each habitat module and Romulus moves them to the airlocks. Solar power charges the packs.
Arms spend most of their time working in place. Navigation, drive and power only need to be present when something has to move, so a single base can keep several arms productive.
The pick cells run two pickers per base: one unloads at the conveyor while the other is out in the aisle. The sort cell runs three sorters per base, with Romulus handling Dock-Bot swaps and battery service.
We're gathering interest for the first Octavious pilot cells. Leave your email and we'll be in touch as the prototype comes together.