HawkWorks Autonomy + perception intelligence
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HawkWorks

Autonomy + perception

Autonomy.
With awareness.

HawkWorks is an AI platform for drones, robots, vehicles, and industrial systems. It connects mission planning, onboard perception, and autonomous decisions so systems can perceive, decide, and act together.

Discover the capabilities

01 / Mission planning

Start with
the mission.

Turn an instruction or alert into a sequenced mission. Specialized agents interpret intent, select tools, resolve dependencies, and check constraints before issuing commands, with tiered confirmation for safety-critical actions and handoff when needed.

02 / Onboard perception

See the scene.
Understand it.

Process camera input onboard to detect and track objects, map their locations, and interpret the scene. Vision-language models add descriptions, activity recognition, anomaly explanations, and change detection that connect visual observations to decisions.

03 / Adaptive navigation

Connect perception to movement as a mission develops. Follow targets at a configured distance, add investigation waypoints when anomalies appear, and combine depth estimates with sensor data to adjust routes around obstacles as speed changes.

04 / Model deployment

Intelligence,
at the edge.

Carry fleet data through quality checks, model training, evaluation, and optimization for target edge hardware. Introduce updates through a progressive canary rollout, monitor system health, and roll back when deployment failures are detected.

05 / Fleet coordination

Many systems.
One objective.

Coordinate drones, robots, and vehicles through shared state and observations. Break objectives into dependent tasks, allocate roles using battery, position, and capability, and combine local formation rules with distributed voting for mission decisions.

06 / Operational insight

Every mission
has a story.

Ask questions across telemetry, events, sensor records, and mission reports. Agents formulate queries, correlate sources, and assemble evidence for investigations, while anomaly detection and fleet trends inform maintenance advisories and operational no-go alerts.

07 / Compactness

Compact.

Blades, arms and landing gear tuck around the body. Scroll to fold, then reverse to unfold this illustrative airframe.

One platform.
Four connected layers.

Connect the hardware collecting observations to the intelligence deciding what happens next. HawkWorks brings perception, planning, and fleet operations into a shared software architecture.

Safety throughout the mission.

Assess visibility, wind, precipitation, temperature, and battery endurance together. Track telemetry for unusual behavior, classify incidents, and use trends across operations to inform maintenance and mission decisions.

Hardware
Controllers, companion computers, sensors, and communications.
Perception
Object detection, tracking, and scene understanding from vision-language models.
Intelligence
Specialized agents, mission planning, and dynamic routing connect observations to actions.
Fleet & mission
Coordination, shared decisions, telemetry, and analytics connect the wider operation.

Solutions

Autonomy in the field.

Energy & infrastructure

Solar arrays, wind farms, and power networks stretch across terrain that can be difficult to inspect from the ground.

Connect power-line inspection, solar and wind monitoring, and visual defect detection with mission planning and shared observations from the field.

Mission planning
Operator intent
Perception
Detection & tracking
Navigation
Obstacle avoidance
Coordination
Shared observations
Deployment
Fleet updates
Insight
Mission investigation
The white HawkWorks drone inspecting tilted solar panels over detailed desert ground, with dry mountain terrain beyond the farm.
Solar inspection · 3D concept
Scene credits

Illustrative solar installation on modeled California terrain. Elevation from Mapzen Terrain Tiles, including USGS elevation sources, with registered USGS/USDA NAIP imagery for distant surface color. Scanned ground, vegetation, and daylight from Poly Haven (CC0). The farm layout, grading, and flight route are authored for this demonstration.

Across industries

Awareness across
the terrain.

Perception, navigation, and shared observations — from the valley to the ridgeline.

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Three points. One shared view.
Illustrative terrain scan.

From intent
to insight.

Mission planning, perception, navigation, deployment, coordination, and analysis — one connected story.

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HawkWorks · Illustrative autonomy and perception capabilities. Drone and visual overlays are illustrative.

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