The robotics startup behind autonomous robot guard dogs, Asylon, has revealed raising a 26-million-dollar series B investment round to increase production, speed up R&D, and roll out its security robots to new commercial and industrial locations around the world. The funding indicates increasing interest in autonomous systems incorporating AI, built in accordance with physical safety applications.
Asylon was established in [Year], in order to manufacture four-legged robots with onboard AI vision, thermal imagery, and object tracking. Such machines have abilities to patrol fences around perimeters, detect intruders or threat, and notify the security teams in real-time. They move through difficult terrain, factories and large campuses through a combination of autonomous route planning and GPS-aided mapping and become force multipliers to those individuals that are conducting security operations.
These investors were some of the leading hardware and robotics-oriented funds, as they are confident that the autonomous security market can grow fast. Using this funding, Asylon intends to accelerate production, expand its software development organization, and implement quality and safety measures so that it can roll them out to the broader market in logistics, energy, and critical infrastructure.
The pilot of the guard dogs developed by Asylon has already been run on a few partner facilities such as industrial campuses and solar plants, proving the ability to provide constant monitoring of the perimeter with an option to be notified in case of trespassing and to check conditions on the premises such as heat spots or the presence of unauthorized individuals. When one pilot location deployed the system, they recorded a 40 percent decline in security incidents within weeks of deployment due to quicker detection and notification of intervention.
The robots have multimodal sensors, which consist of LIDAR, thermal, and visual cameras with objective to create a proper model of the situational awareness. They are able to identify humans in the dark, vehicles and suspicious movement patterns and report it to the control centers dashboards as alerts with video subject and geolocation data. Under the autonomy of autonomous autonomy, getting back to the charging points and arranging covering with other on scene robots is involved.
The Series B financing of Asylon will also push the company AI R&D transformation process. In new iterations, the inclusion of edge-based threat classification will allow the robots to make the decision on the course of action themselves whether to either investigate or report to the authorities. The company is also investigating swarm behaviors – in which groups of robots secretly exchange data and in a coordinated fashion act over vast spaces- decreasing overhead and increasing effectiveness of coverage.
There is great promise in the industry to the eyes of analysts. The number of security agencies that are collaborating with robotics firms is also on the increase as a means to complement their human guards, management risk and minimize long term expenses. Autonomous guard dogs have the capacity to deal with monotony of patrols at dangerous or hard-to-reach areas, thereby freeing human teams to deal with tough or delicate tasks. Asylon is making a move to be one of the leaders in the security robotics market that is estimated to grow to more than 10 billion dollars by the year 2027.
The sustainability is met with a challenge. The major adoption barriers to roving robot implementation include regulatory acceptance, the attitude of the masses and moral protection. Asylon is overcoming these through partnering with local regulators and social responsibility experts to initiate stringent privacy measures, open reporting, and community dialogue so guard robots operate within the limits of the law and according to the human rights standards.
Besides this, it is also onboarding enterprise customers and commencing stress testing on the Internet on the grid to confirm the durability, uptime, and safety of robots in real-life weather and terrain conditions. The team growth will be extended to robotics safety certification specialists, field support teams and security operations liaisons.
Lastly, the conclusion that Asylon has recently secured $26 million Series B, which will bring it to large-scale deployment. The company has the ability to change the definition of perimeter protection as it has the proven effect in the trials programs and vision of future advanced AI-based security autonomy. With the increasing number of autonomous security systems in the market, the guard dogs of Asylon may become a common terminology at any sensitive installation worldwide.
