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Quanta is an independent robotics laboratory in New Arden. We design our own platforms, run them until they fail, log the failure, and ship the lesson to the whole fleet by morning.
Four platforms, all designed and machined in-house. Spec sheets below are measured, not aspirational.
DEPLOYED
Six-axis manipulator
Fourth revision. Learned to fold a shirt in 2024, to fold it well in 2025. Currently unloading dishwashers at partner sites and keeping notes.
| AXES | 6 |
|---|---|
| REACH | 940 mm |
| PAYLOAD | 12 kg |
| REPEATABILITY | ±0.02 mm |
| CONTROL LOOP | 1 kHz / EtherCAT |
| MASS | 38 kg |
FIELD TRIALS
All-terrain research rover
Eleven-hour endurance, four independent drive pods, one incident involving a hedge (resolved). Mapping the Foundry Walk quarry since March.
| DRIVE | 4 × independent pods |
|---|---|
| TOP SPEED | 1.8 m/s |
| ENDURANCE | 11 h |
| PAYLOAD BAY | 40 L |
| SENSING | LIDAR + stereo + IMU |
| INGRESS | IP54 |
DEPLOYED
Autonomous quadrotor
Onboard visual-inertial odometry, no GPS, no excuses. Flies the lab perimeter every morning at 06:10 and files a report nobody asked for.
| ROTOR SPAN | 620 mm |
|---|---|
| MASS | 1.4 kg |
| FLIGHT TIME | 34 min |
| WIND LIMIT | 12 m/s |
| AUTONOMY | Onboard VIO |
| NAVIGATION | GPS-denied |
ALWAYS ON
Fleet learning cluster
The only platform that never leaves the building. Replays every grasp, fall, and near-miss from the fleet overnight; the robots wake up slightly better.
| NODES | 24 |
|---|---|
| ACCELERATORS | 96 |
| STORAGE | 2.4 PB |
| INTERCONNECT | 800 Gb/s |
| SIM THROUGHPUT | 40k episodes/day |
| COOLING | Rear-door liquid |
RA-01
Grasping things that were not designed to be grasped. Deformables, transparents, the lab mug with the broken handle.
RA-02
Wheels where wheels work, legs where they do not. Recovery behaviors trained on 40,000 simulated falls and eleven real ones.
RA-03
Maps that survive moved furniture. Long-horizon localization without GPS, beacons, or wishful thinking.
RA-04
Every robot’s worst moment becomes every robot’s training data. Nightly consolidation across the whole fleet.
RA-05
Closing the gap between the physics engine and the physics. Domain randomization with a grudge.
RA-06
Force limits, intent signaling, and the hard problem of standing politely in a corridor. Certified before clever.
We build in batches of eight. Small enough that every unit gets torqued by a person who cares, large enough that the fixtures pay for themselves. Machining, harness, and calibration happen within forty meters of the researchers who will file the bug reports.
The line runs two weeks per quarter. The rest of the time it is a repair bay, which tells you most of what field robotics is.
Okafor, Lindqvist, Marsh · Proc. CoRL
Marsh, Tran · Field Robotics Letters 11(2)
Lindqvist, Adeyemi, Okafor · Proc. RSS
Tran, Marsh, Whitlock · HRI Workshop on Shared Spaces
Okafor, Whitlock · Quanta Technical Report QTR-041
Preprints on request. QTR series available under NDA, except QTR-041, which is mostly an apology to a shirt.
We deploy with partners whose problems are boring, repetitive, and therefore perfect. Pilots run 90 days with our engineers on-site.
Five open positions. We hire people who fix the thing before writing the ticket, then write the ticket anyway.
| ROLE | TEAM | TYPE | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer, Manipulation | RA-01 | Full-time | New Arden |
| Perception Scientist | RA-03 | Full-time | New Arden / hybrid |
| Field Test Lead, Rover | RA-02 | Full-time | New Arden + quarry |
| Machinist & Fabricator | Workshop | Full-time | New Arden |
| Research Intern | Any | Summer 2027 | New Arden |
Apply with something you have built: join@quanta.example