Built by the person who flew the missions
Sarthi's founder spent a PhD and postdoc at the Robotics and AI group of Luleå University of Technology building and field-proving autonomy for robots in unknown, infrastructure-free environments, and created the exploration and navigation framework at the core of Sarthi's stack.
The field record
Fully autonomous aerial exploration and mapping of a natural lava tube in Iceland, more than 1 km explored on a single mission architecture.
Autonomous mapping and inspection of rockfall zones after a roof collapse in an operating iron-ore mine in northern Sweden.
Years of underground exploration and waypoint-navigation trials with Nordic mining companies, a mining-equipment manufacturer, and a European potash operator, within EU-funded and industry-funded research projects.
Peer-reviewed publications in field-robotics venues, including journal work on autonomous post-blast gas measurement missions in underground mines.
In the founder's words
“My research career has been about making robots self-reliant in places that offer them nothing: no position, no signal, no map. We proved it works, in a lava tube in Iceland and in ground that had just collapsed in a working mine.
I am building Sarthi because the industries that need that capability most are still sending people instead. I want to be a founder who solves real problems and makes industries safer, not just a software developer with a clever planner.”
The head of the LTU Robotics and AI research group supports the company in an advisory role. Sarthi is currently a solo-founder venture; that fact and its mitigations are stated plainly to investors rather than hidden.
The record is public and checkable.