Revolute Robotics’ hybrid mobility robot features a durable exoskeleton and customizable payloads for inspection and surveillance tasks. | Source: Revolute Robotics
Revolute Robotics, a startup building fully autonomous ground and aerial robots, yesterday said it has raised $1.9 million in funding. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company plans to use the proceeds to accelerate deployments across inspection, security, and defense applications.
“Drone and rover advancements have made remote inspection a reality, but the complexity of each inspection requires teams to deploy multiple robotic solutions for each unique application,” stated Collin Taylor, Revolute’s co-founder and CEO. “Our hybrid aerial-terrestrial capability allows for a single solution to cover multiple uses, like the Swiss Army Knife of robotic inspections. One robust system instead of several niche platforms, which is not only cheaper, but easier to implement and extract actionable insights from multiple data streams.”
Revolute was founded in 2020, but its technology has been in the works since 2017. Co-founder Sahand Sabet built hybrid aerial/terrestrial robots for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory before dedicating his Ph.D. to the subject.
Revolute robot can handle a variety of payloads
Revolute’s robot can drive on the ground to extend battery life and fly when it needs to get around obstacles. The company claimed these capabilities enable longer inspections in larger areas compared to traditional drones. In addition, the robot can navigate confined, complex, and GPS-denied spaces where existing inspection and surveillance robots cannot access.
The company designed its system to be a multi-tool for robotic inspection of facilities and sites. It supports visual, thermal, gas, and radiation detection, lidar mapping, and ultrasonic testing for oil and gas, power, chemicals, construction, mining, and other industries.
Security teams use the Revolute robot to patrol areas of interest, monitor perimeters, and respond to threats. Defense teams can deploy it for base patrol, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), vehicle inspection, and search and rescue. The platform also supports swarm coordination, customizable payloads, and autonomous navigation.
Already, the team has learned lessons from early deployments. “Some things we have learned include: the need for a robust navigation system that can steadily fly in confined spaces, and the importance of multiple sensors to collect multiple data types depending on the job (lidar, visual, thermal, gas, ultrasonic) as our robot is viewed as a multi-tool – it must be able to perform multiple jobs well, not just one specific type of job,” Taylor said.
“Above all else, we have also been learning/validating the need for our robot in areas where humans are still performing dangerous workloads because no other robots can perform the job,” he continued.
Revolute participates in MassRobotics Accelerator
ANIMO Ventures and Ascend led the round, which also included participation from several high-profile angel investors.
“Revolute is building the future of field robotics,” said Antonio Osio, general partner at ANIMO Ventures. We believe Collin and his team created a system that will become the go-to tool for inspecting the world’s most critical and least accessible assets.”
On top of the venture funding, Revolute was recently selected for the MassRobotics Accelerator, receiving $100,000 in nondilutive funding and access to top robotics advisors.
Revolute said it is currently preparing for pilot deployments with several large enterprise customers, including one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers. Several inspection service providers have also joined the growing waitlist.
The company plans to grow its team and support product development, early revenue generation, and scaling operations.
“Our goals for 2026 are to continue pilot deployments with select customers and launch our flagship product before the end of the year,” Taylor told The Robot Report.
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