Cobalt Robotics (Cobalt AI) · military or security robot
Cobalt indoor security robot
An indoor security robot with more than 60 sensors and a video-call screen that patrols offices, reads badges and alerts human guards.
- Price
- —About $75,000 per year as a service including the robot and remote specialists.
- Height
- 155 cmTaller than 70%
- Weight
- 68 kgHeavier than 14%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 9.7 km/hFaster than 32%
- Battery
- 8 hRuns longer than 55%
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Why it matters
Cobalt indoor security robot is on the market today.
Real-world use
FedEx, Salesforce, Ally Financial (named by Cobalt)
Maker
Cobalt Robotics (Cobalt AI)Company · Palo Alto, California, USASeed led by Bloomberg Beta and Promus Ventures (2017)
How it stacks up
Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Cobalt indoor security robot is taller than 70% of the 10 other military & security that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Cobalt indoor security robot is heavier than 14% of the 35 other military & security that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Cobalt indoor security robot is faster than 32% of the 31 other military & security that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Cobalt indoor security robot runs longer than 55% of the 11 other military & security that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: payload, joints, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Cobalt indoor security robot gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. It patrols buildings on its own, but remote human security specialists watch its alerts and can take over or talk to people through its screen.
- Sensors & vision
- 3D scanners (including a downward cliff scanner), four-camera array with infrared, navigation lidar, thermal, ultrasonic and bump sensors, long-range RFID and badge readers, microphone array, smoke, CO, humidity, temperature and dust sensors
- Compute
- Server-grade computer with an NVIDIA 1080-class GPU plus separate safety and networking computers
- Battery & power
- Lithium iron phosphate, about 8 hours; about 2 hours to full charge, auto top-ups
- AI & software
- ROS-based; remote human security specialists answer alerts via video screen
- Other details
- 68 kg, 155 cm tall; 3.2 km/h patrol speed
From the maker
Cobalt indoor security robot is the only machine from Cobalt Robotics in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedAbout $75,000 per year as a service including the robot and remote specialists.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Security service at about $75,000 a year
- Customers and pilots
- FedEx, Salesforce, Ally Financial (named by Cobalt)
News
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- Cobalt unveils indoor security robot
Palo Alto start-up Cobalt launched its indoor security robot with about 60 sensors and a video screen, backed by Bloomberg Beta.
TechCrunch
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Cobalt indoor security robotCobalt Robotics |  K3KnightscopeSame job: indoor security patrol · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2017-03-01 | 2016 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | 155 cm | — |
| Weight | 68 kg | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | 9.7 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | 8 h | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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