We are a pioneer in fully adaptive and cognitive mission-level autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence (“AI”), delivering advanced solutions that enable safe, efficient, and scalable autonomy in complex, GPS-denied environments. Our mission is to deliver world-class autonomous robots to data-hungry industries to unlock new insights that drive smarter decisions. Leveraging proprietary Level 4B autonomy software and cutting-edge aerial and ground robotic systems, we empower industries, including mining, construction, critical infrastructure, and defense with real-time 3D mapping, data analytics, and autonomous navigation. Founded in 2014 as a spin-out from the renowned General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory (“GRASP Laboratory”) at the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Vijay Kumar, the Nemirovsky Family Dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Science and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Exyn has developed a robust suite of hardware-agnostic autonomy software that allows aerial and ground robots to navigate and operate without human control, prior maps, or external infrastructure. Our solutions provide customers with the ability to rapidly digitize and analyze challenging environments such as underground mines, warehouses, tunnels, and contested battlefields, while improving safety, efficiency, and decision-making. We are in the market with commercially-available and robustly field tested, full autonomy robots capable of completely self-directed flight and ground navigation in GPS-denied, communication-limited, and dynamic environments. Our platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of robotic form factors, enabling original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), defense agencies, and industrial customers to extend and scale autonomy across diverse mission sets. Our software for localization, autonomous navigation, and 3D map creation is ExynAI. Currently, we package ExynAI software modules within our hardware, Nexys, a modular mapping and autonomy payload that allows users to quickly capture highly accurate, colorized, real-time 3D point clouds in complex, dangerous, or inhospitable environments. Our unique technology is built upon the fusion of multiple sensor inputs that create a highly accurate real-time map, thus enabling autonomous flight and ground operations. Nexys-enabled robots are highly differentiated and robust, making them ideal and practical for complex industrial environments. Our products are designed to serve customers of all sizes and complexity across multiple industry verticals, such as mining, construction, energy, geospatial, critical infrastructure inspection and defense. Whether packaged as Exyn branded products or via software as part of third-party systems, our Nexys product and our ExynAI software platform are easily integrated into existing business systems and processes, making them essential to a wide range of operators. As customers of our software deploy robotic systems at scale, the use of ExynAI enables them to not only save money and improve productivity, but in many cases to avoid needless “hazardous man-hours” and reduce environmental impact, thereby creating significant value across multiple categories. Software ExynAI ExynAI is our proprietary mobile mapping and autonomy software that incorporates industry leading capabilities in simultaneous localization and mapping (“SLAM”), motion planning, and control. It enables autonomous navigation in unstructured, GPS-denied environments while simultaneously capturing a feature-rich, colorized digital twin that can be rendered in real-time. Running on our modular hardware product, the Nexys, ExynAI is a critical tool in the modern surveyor’s toolkit. ExynAI is also built from the ground up to be modular, platform agnostic, and open to third-party data streams, making it highly versatile and extensible. Now, with years of customer operations all across the globe in a variety of environments, we believe it is poised to become a core software component for the mapping and autonomous systems of the future. Specialized modes for ExynAI give users the ability to quickly define mission types and create a high-level mission objective in seconds. The most common example of this is Exploration mode, which is built for venturing into the unknown, and is the most widely used mode by our autonomous navigation users via ExynAI. Operators can simply define an area of interest inside ExynView and then launch a mission for the robot to explore. Once the mission is started, ExynAI takes control to autonomously map the entire area without the need for a connection to ExynView or an operator in control. On the capture and navigation side, ExynAI, when coupled with our SLAM-based light detection and ranging (“LiDAR”) scanning technology, delivers survey-grade 3D models without a pilot. ExynAI is capable of consuming and analyzing a variety of data streams once the appropriate sensors are connected to Nexys while mapping. This can be a vital tool for first responders, for example, looking to capture gas sensor readings while creating a response plan or for simply overlaying Global Navigation Satellite System (“GNSS”) information on a digital twin; other examples of rich data additions are radiation and depth. The Nexys autonomy and mapping ecosystem, which includes Nexys, ExynAI, ExynView and the various accessories and supported systems, is built from the ground up to give operators a modular, mobile tool to collect real world data and transform it into accurate, actionable digital twins. Since 2016, ExynAI has performed thousands of completely autonomous flights traveling around the world, proving our autonomous navigation and mapping can safely complete missions in the most challenging environments where and when operators need it the most. --- Our hardware and software solutions are designed to perform in the most demanding conditions and are built around the capabilities our customers depend on every day: • Precision Mapping: Generate survey-grade 3D maps in real-time, even in GPS-denied or signal-limited environments. • Robust Localization: Reliable and accurate localization performance across challenging environments, including GPS-rich, GPS-denied, high-speed, and complex 3D settings. • Proven Field-Ready Autonomy: Validated across hundreds of deployments and thousands of flights, with demonstrated resilience and reliability in diverse and challenging conditions, including dusty environments and obstacle-rich terrains. • Scalable Solutions: Allows customers to expand their hardware’s capabilities to meet diverse mission needs quickly and efficiently. ExynView ExynView is our proprietary software suite used to plan and execute fully autonomous missions, view real-time point cloud data, and post-process that data into actionable 3D digital models. Surveying professionals can quickly and easily plan autonomous missions through ExynView to send Nexys-enabled robots into areas too dangerous for people to work. Operators can track real-time progress of the mission while communications are in range. ExynView’s robust post-processing capabilities can quickly take a scan from captured to actionable data. Its capabilities include: • refinement, cleanup, and colorization of the point cloud; • Ground Control Points (“GCPs”) or Global Positioning System / Global Navigation Satellite System (“GPS/GNSS”) based georeferencing and anchoring; and • export of georeferenced maps in standard data formats for use in customer workflows. ExynView’s post-processing software transforms Nexys data into actionable 3D models without ever needing to leave the job site. Hardware Exyn Nexys The Nexys product line is a modular 3D mapping solution designed to reduce time to capture data, increase safety, and drive efficiency for challenging, complex, or dangerous environments. Nexys also provides platform-agnostic autonomy, meaning it can be swapped from robot to robot depending on the use case or environment. The ExynAI software is embedded on the Nexys hardware and is able to operate without any offboard communications. Our team is continually validating new robotic platforms and additional sensors to expand the supported ecosystem. Nexys can quickly and easily switch between a variety of configurations — handheld, backpack, aerial robot, terrestrial robot, vehicle, pole and custom configurations. Built with rigorous industrial usage in mind, Nexys may be used in any mapping environment, offering users flexibility and cost efficiency. ExynAI on Nexys creates detailed 3D maps in real time, updating continuously as new data comes in. It delivers reliable, survey-grade accuracy within about one centimeter while capturing about one million data points every second. The full power of Nexys is unlocked with an ExynAI autonomy license, where our industry leading Level 4B autonomy enables drones and ground robots to autonomously navigate and map the most dangerous environments. Our principal executive offices are located in Philadelphia, PA.
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