Mercurius Technologies

Making dumb robots smart

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

And that's a wrap on @fdotinc canopy

[Connor Raymer @pericleshimself]

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Day 9 building Odysseus — autonomous navigation that actually adapts to real-world environments.

We’ve got an early version live, pushing cloud GPUs and starting to onboard early users. The goal is simple: make navigation reliable, scalable, and usable for any robot.

Built in SF, surrounded by builders. More info will come soon.

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

[1/2] DAY 8 of building Odyseus - Intelligent Navigation for any robot builder

Today an early version of the platform is live (maxing out cloud GPUs) will be sending access credentials to our Early Access waitlist.

No better place to be building this than in SF and @fdotinc .

[Connor Raymer @pericleshimself]

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DAY 8 of building Odyseus – AI navigation service for any mobile robot. Camera, a Raspberry Pi/Jetson, WiFi – that’s it.

Built out of @fdotinc

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

[1/2] DAY 8 of building Odyseus - AI Navigation as a Service for any mobile robot, just need a camera, a raspberry pi and a WiFi connection.

Today will be a short one again:
> rearchitected our backend (no more giant monolith)
> made streaming from the simulation smoother for faster iteration (the jump from 50x to 10x is crazy)
> Made the Unreal Camera and movements closer to the real raspberry pi

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

[1/3] DAY 7 of building Odyseus - AI Navigation as a service for any mobile robot without any fancy sensors or expensive hardware, just a Raspberry pi, a camera and a connection to the cloud.

Building out of @fdotinc

[Connor Raymer @pericleshimself]

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Day 7 — Odyseus progress.
Turning autonomy into a cloud service: any mobile robot, powered by a single RGB camera + onboard compute.
No LiDAR. No expensive sensor stack.

Built in @fdotinc

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

DAY 6 of building Odyseus: AI Navigation as a Service for any robot, without any fancy sensors, only a raspberry pi, a camera, and a connection to the cloud

Building this crazy idea out of @fdotinc

[Connor Raymer @pericleshimself]

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Day 4 building AI Navigation-as-a-Service

Goal: any robot navigates using just
• Raspberry Pi
• a camera
• cloud compute

No LiDAR. No expensive sensors.

Today:
• rebuilt the AI pipeline
• upgraded to DA3 Metric depth
• tested zero-shot VLM landmark navigation

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

DAY 4 of building AI Navigation as a Service for any robot without any fancy sensors or hardware but a raspberry pi, a camera, and a connection to the cloud

Building out of @fdotinc

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

DAY 3 of building the intelligence layer to give any robot sophisticated navigation with inexpensive hardware and minimal number of sensors.

Today we put it on a raspberry pi

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

[1/3] I built lots of robots and drones curing college, sadly most were just a mechanical system with basic motion not much intelligence.
DAY 2 of building a software to make it extremely easy to add intelligent navigation to any robot, with just a camera, and cheap hardware.

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

Beautiful weather today

Doing some preliminary flight tests with Mercury

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

New and improved Mercury fresh off the assembly line:

> Removed 1.3 lbs of weight
> 5 minutes of extra flight time
> Added Temperature Sensor
> Increased wheel traction
> Easier battery swapping
> 2.5x driving torque

Had to use old Mercury for spare parts

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

Hardware founders be like: spare no expense

Finally got around to adding the #1 sensor request by first-responder teams and SAR orgs that are interested in testing out Mercury.

Major upgrades coming soon, stay tuned.

[Connor Raymer @pericleshimself]

The #DJI era is dead, and honestly, good riddance. 🇺🇸

While the "advocates" and hobbyists cry to Congress about the ban, we built the evolution they weren't smart enough to engineer. They’re terrified of their fleets becoming paperweights, but those single-mode drones were already obsolete toys.

Meet Mercury. It doesn’t just hover, it transforms. It drives through the rubble and tight gaps where standard drones get stuck and run out of battery. It’s American-engineered for total freedom, taking off when you need it and driving when you don't.

If your drone only flies, it’s half a tool. Whether you’re a First Responder or a hobbyist tired of restricted "Made-in-China" junk, the choice is clear. Stop waiting for a software update to ground your rig and get the hybrid tech that actually works.

#DJIban #DroneBan #drones #startups

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

The U.S. just banned #DJI drones. So we didn't just build a replacement; we built an evolution.

Meet Mercury, a drone that doesn’t just fly. It transforms to drive, adapting to tight spaces and rough terrain where standard drones fail.

To be used for first response, SAR, inspection, or just for fun—Mercury will go farther, and operate for longer.

Single-mode drones are a thing of the past.

#DJIban #DroneBan #PublicSafety #DroneAdvocacy

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

Don't build what everyone else is building, make something new, make something crazy.

Meet Mercury the first multi-modal robot-drone capable of flying, driving and carrying 1kg of payload.

We started to design it a month ago and built it during the #blueprint program @fdotinc, yesterday we showcased it at the Blueprint Festival

It was great to see the amazement of people that would see it transform and couldn't believe it, even better when they doubted it could fly and then checked out the video.

I've never liked to just build regular robots or regular drones, there's people already doing that, so why not stand out with something that's straight out of science fiction.

And this is just us getting started ...

[Alvaro L @L42ARO]

Our first delivery with a hybrid flying-driving robot:
>It drove half a km
>It transformed into flight mode
>It took off
>Gotta work on flight control

The future of drone delivery won't drop a package, it'll hand it to you

Btw @redbull wanna sponsor?

@fdotinc
@MercuriusDrones

[Mercurius Technologies @Mercurius_Tech]

@prasenx Robotics, it's as clear as water