Roadbotics, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: J201-CSO1

Description

RoadBotics, Inc. was founded in late 2016 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. The company currently has almost 60 employees, over 200 live customers, and was spun out of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. To date, RoadBotics has raised $11.4 million in venture capital.The company’s team built an interactive online platform, called RoadWay, where road conditions can be efficiently and reliably viewed, assessed, and managed. RoadBotics technology utilizes AI to improve upon current expensive and time-consuming road assessment methods, which include manual visual inspection or the use of sensor vans. The RoadWay platform simply requires the user to upload a map of the roadnetwork being assessed, and the RoadBotics RoadNav and RoadSense apps seamlessly collect road image data using nothing but a smartphone camera. Next, using AI, road network images are analyzed and the assessment results are published on the RoadWay platform. This gives the company’s customers the ability to get a bird’s eye view of the road network in question, get granular with the data collected if desired, make reliable maintenance plans, and even identify individual pavement distresses. RoadBotics has assessed over 160 communities located in 34 US states and 14 different countries. Large US cities that have already found great value using the RoadWay platform include the City of Detroit, MI, the City of Savannah, GA, Charlotte, NC, Bulloch County, GA, and San Diego County.