We build autonomous robots for real-world physical work
One robot platform — autonomy, safety and fleet software — carried into the places where the work is heavy, repetitive and outdoors
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- #Field-robotics
- #Safety-first
- #Fleet-software
- #Prototype-to-production
Software complete and validated in simulation · first prototype in build
Dover, Delaware · Working worldwide
M200 Construction Mule
An autonomous material-transport robot for construction sites: ~200 kg payload, tasked in plain language, coordinated as a fleet, built around a safety architecture where no AI output can reach the stop decision.
Software complete · prototype build starting
See the robots→ACR-1 Quadruped platform
A four-legged platform for the ground wheels cannot serve — stairs, debris, unfinished floors. Simulation-first by design: no physical build until measured milestones pass.
Research · simulation only
See the robots→Not products · not announced · domains we are studying
Agricultural drones
Aerial work over fields — the same autonomy, safety and fleet layers applied to a domain with its own airspace rules and its own evidence to earn.
Unmanned marine vehicles
Surface craft in the water-taxi class: autonomous transport where the road is water. Early study of the domain, nothing more.
Other field robotics
Wherever repetitive physical work happens outdoors, at scale, near people — the platform's natural range. Each candidate must prove itself before it becomes a program.
A robot is mechanics, autonomy and operations — or it is a demo
AtaForge is not a software agency with a robot on the website. We build the machine and everything that makes it useful on a working site: the chassis, the autonomy, the safety chain, the fleet software and the report that lands in the owner's inbox.
Robotics engineering
AtaForge designs and manufactures AI-powered robots — autonomous mobile platforms, robotic cells, and vision-guided arms — from mechanical design and embedded firmware through to the perception models and fleet software that run them.
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- #Vision-guided-arms
- #ROS-2
- #Edge-AI
- Mechanical & hardware design
- Chassis, drivetrain, and enclosure design through CAD, tolerance analysis, and DFM review — then bring-up on real prototypes instead of renders.
- Embedded control
- Real-time firmware on STM32 and Jetson-class compute: motor control loops, sensor fusion, safety interlocks, and OTA-updatable device software.
- Perception & autonomy
- Computer vision, SLAM, obstacle avoidance, and pick-and-place planning. Models trained on your process data and quantised to run on-device at the edge.
- Fleet & operations software
- Web dashboards for tasking, telemetry, remote diagnostics, and utilisation reporting — so a fleet of ten robots needs one operator, not ten.
One stack under every machine we build
A construction carrier, a legged platform and — one day — an aerial or marine machine are different bodies over the same foundations. Building that platform once is what makes a second domain credible instead of a slogan.
Autonomy & perception
Mapping, localisation, obstacle handling and task planning that run on the machine itself — evaluated in simulation against thousands of runs before any hardware moves.
Safety architecture
An independent, hardware-level stop chain that never depends on AI. People always have right of way; the certification path is designed in from day one, not bolted on.
Fleet & operations software
Task allocation across many robots, live monitoring, offline-tolerant field apps and automatic daily reports — the layer that makes a robot useful to a business.
Mechanics & embedded systems
Parametric mechanical design, drivetrain and power architecture, and certifiable embedded control — the physical half, engineered by the same team as the software.
From factory floor to production system
No open-ended retainers and no black box. Each phase ends with something you can inspect: a document, a machine, or a running system.
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Technical discovery
Two weeks on site and in the data. We map the process, the constraints, the regulatory surface, and the number that has to move.
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Prototype
A moving machine, a working model, or a clickable system on real data — early enough that changing direction is still cheap.
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Engineer to production
Hardening, integration, safety and compliance work, test coverage, and the documentation your auditors and operators will ask for.
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Deploy & operate
Rollout, operator training, telemetry, and a support agreement — with full source, schematics, and weights handed over to you.
Straight answers
Still unclear on something? Ask directly — [email protected].
What does AtaForge do?
AtaForge is a robotics company. We build autonomous robots for real-world physical work — the mechanics, the autonomy software, and the fleet systems that operate them. Our first application is material transport on construction sites.
Do you have a robot working today?
Not yet, and we say so plainly. The software platform is complete and validated across thousands of simulation runs; the first physical prototype is being built now. Every figure we publish is labelled simulation until the yard says otherwise.
Why can one company address several robotics domains?
Because the hard part is shared. Autonomy, safety architecture and fleet software are the same underneath a construction carrier, an agricultural drone or an unmanned surface vessel. Building that platform once is what makes a second domain credible — and each new domain still has to earn its own evidence.
What is the M200 Construction Mule?
Our first product: an autonomous material-transport robot for construction sites, ~200 kg payload, tasked in plain language and coordinated as a fleet. It is in the prototype build phase, on a CE certification path.
Where is AtaForge based?
AtaForge Inc. is registered in Dover, Delaware, United States, with AtaForge Europe Ltd. in Malta — one engineering organisation, working worldwide.
How does a conversation start?
With a technical call. Tell us the material-flow or field-robotics problem you have; we will tell you honestly whether it is something we can help with today or a domain we are still exploring.