Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots
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Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots.
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We give existing mobile robots the task-specific intelligence to carry out surveys and physically interactive inspections in hazardous industrial facilities.Here's a video of it running on real robot hardware with a few words from us: https://youtu.be/U_228h3NE7cWe came to Salem through robotics research at UT Austin and a combined 15 years working in nuclear, including about 10 years developing and deploying autonomous robots at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Over the last five years, we kept running into the same gap: robot hardware had become very capable, but making a robot carry out a complete industrial procedure still required a surprising amount of robotics work and manual intervention.The part that interested us most was manipulation.
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