Upgrade your robots with intelligence and autonomy!

Karelics Brain

Karelics Brain is a customizable software solution for robots, enabling full autonomy in challenging environments. Built on ROS 2, it equips robots with essential skills and supports various sensors. This all-in-one solution eliminates the complexity of managing multiple software packages and allows flexible feature activation based on your needs.

Robot skills brought by Karelics Brain

Advanced SLAM

Karelics Brain Advanced SLAM: a custom solution for navigation in complex environments like construction sites. Our system combines 2D and 3D Lidar-based SLAM with stereo camera-based Visual SLAM, ensuring detailed mapping and precise localization.

Robust localization

Karelics Brain ensures precise robot localization by integrating wheel-based odometry with sensors like LIDAR and cameras. Additionally, static anchors like AR tags offer further accuracy, guaranteeing your robot’s navigation reliability in any environment.

Autonomous Navigation

Karelics Brain’s Autonomous Navigation: robust traversal, obstacle avoidance, and safe interaction with humans. Our system uses sensor data and efficient path planning to ensure autonomy in complex environments, with custom recovery behaviors for tight spaces.

Custom task and mission management

Our Custom Task and Mission Management feature enables users to create complex missions by chaining simple tasks, ensuring control and feedback to the fleet management system. Built on ROS architecture, it acts as an API for robots, handling conflicting commands effortlessly.

In-depth robot health monitoring

Karelics Brain In-depth Robot Health Monitoring offers real-time statistics, feedback, and notifications on your robot’s status, compiling essential data for optimal operation. Leveraging the ROS 2 diagnostics suite, it streamlines customization for efficient monitoring.

Elevator integration

Karelics Brain offers out-of-the-box industrial elevator integration, empowering your robots to interact with elevators in diverse environments such as construction and mining. Our solution enables robots to autonomously call elevators using custom APIs, navigate within them, and efficiently access various levels, fostering truly autonomous operations.

Multi-floor mapping and navigation

Enable your robots to navigate multi-level structures with precision. From mapping each floor to autonomously transitioning between levels via stairs, slopes, or elevators, our system ensures efficient and adaptable navigation, unlocking new possibilities for robotics deployment in diverse environments.

BIM model integration – mapping

Merge BIM with robotics for efficient construction and mining. Skip mapping with existing BIM models, visualize tasks, and ensure project progress aligns with plans. Say goodbye to redundancy, hello to efficiency!

Map versioning

Say goodbye to outdated maps with our one-click update feature, managed conveniently through the user-friendly Karelics Cloud UI. Keep your robots navigating with precision in dynamic environments like construction sites.

Virtual walls, No-go zones & Virtual areas

Define virtual boundaries and zones effortlessly with Karelics Brain. Outline areas with virtual walls to ensure robot recognition, mark no-go zones for avoidance, and designate virtual areas for points of interest. Accessible via an API endpoint for easy integration into any fleet management system.

Teleoperation via physical joypad

Seamlessly control your robots using a Bluetooth controller, allowing for intuitive maneuvering and speed adjustments. With a consistent controller interface across all robots, users can effortlessly navigate various robot models without the hassle of relearning controls, enhancing operational efficiency in challenging environments.

Gesture detection and control

Detect hand gestures in real-time from your robot’s camera feed, with pre-set commands like “Go there,” “Come here,” and “STOP.” Customize gestures for tailored tasks like “Follow me” or “Paint that wall.” Elevate human-robot interaction on construction sites with Karelics Brain’s Gesture Detection and Control.

Voice recognition and control

Interact with your robots using voice commands, with the flexibility to add custom commands tailored to your specific tasks. With support for custom wake words, you can personalize your interaction experience, empowering efficient and intuitive communication with your machines.

Audio-visual indications

Stay connected to your robot’s status even when away from the main interface. Utilizing the robot’s speakers and lighting system, this feature provides intuitive audio and visual cues, notifying you of key updates such as task status, battery levels, and more.

Human detection, following, and avoidance

Utilizing cutting-edge AI algorithms, our solution ensures the safety of both robots and humans on construction sites. Robots equipped with Karelics Brain can effortlessly recognize and interact with humans, autonomously navigating around them for enhanced safety, or even following them when necessary.

360 Photo-Documentation skill

By integrating the Insta360 ROS driver with advanced task management and navigation capabilities, our software enables robots to autonomously capture 360-degree photos from challenging locations, synchronizing them to our cloud platform for instant access and viewing. Effortlessly gain comprehensive insights into your project!

Device-specific drivers

Integrate diverse sensors and devices with our ROS 2 driver packages. Supported devices include Lidars, motor controllers, depth cameras, and more. Need support for a specific device? We’ll develop a custom ROS driver for you!

Easy integration with fleet management solutions

Integrate your robots powered by Karelics Brain with fleet management platforms. Leveraging the robust foundation of ROS 2, Karelics Brain offers custom API endpoints for comprehensive data synchronization, including maps, laser scans, health statuses, task history, and more, ensuring efficient coordination and control across your robotic fleet.

Want a custom skill?

If you have a different skill in mind that you would like to add to your robot, Karelics Brain provides the best foundation for doing that.

Take advantage of the existing upgrades that Karelics Brain already brings and get the most out of it by creating a custom functionality to fit exactly what you need.

Whether it is a new type of navigation mission, an extra type of data you want to gather from the world, monitoring and searching for damages or other points of interest, we can make it for you and provide it bundled with Karelics Brain.

Use Karelics Brain as you need it!

If you have bare metal…

We bring you full autonomy for your robot!

Everything your robot needs for being truly smart is provided by Karelics Brain.

SLAM, Navigation, Mission Management, and more will be all provided in one complete package!

If you already use ROS2 but want to extend it with some skills we provide, or you need a fleet management

Build on the things you already have and extend the functionality of your robot

Voice recognition, Human detection and avoidance, Gesture recognition and control… pick what suits your needs and upgrade your machine with Karelics Brain.

Easy integration with Karelics Cloud
fleet management solutions

Usability and extensibility are the core values of Karelics Brain.
You can integrate the robots running on Karelics Brain with a fleet management platform.
Brain is fully built on top of ROS 2, and it exposes custom API endpoints for all the relevant data you want to send to the fleet management system.
With Brain and through the fleet management system, all the data is synchronized between all robots: Map, laser scan, health monitoring statuses, driven path, task history, and much more.

Karelics Cloud is the simplest way to manage all your robots running on Karelics Brain!

Robots that are already operating
on Karelics Brain

JLA-e 5/12

by JUNG Hybetechnik

Sampo

by Robauta

Antero 3

by Robauta

Spot

by Boston Dynamics

X30

by Inmotion Robotic

Leo Rover 1.8

by Leo Rover

Panther

by Husarion

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Our mission

To integrate smart, autonomous robots into our daily lives.
To push autonomous robot helpers to all the major industries.
To make all kinds of robots work seamlessly together, towards accomplishing complex tasks.
To stretch the boundaries of robotics by contributing to existing research topics and open-source projects.

Issues in Unlocking Robot Intelligence

Choose only what is necessary

Robot skills

Advanced SLAM

Robust localization

Autonomous Navigation

Multi-floor mapping

Mission management

Health monitoring

Elevator integration

Virtual areas

Gesture detection

Voice recognition

360 Photo-Documentation

More skills...

Build on top of ROS 2

It is ROS 2-based, with additional custom components and configurations, bringing to your robot different skills that is essential for safe and autonomous operation.

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Containerized Components

All the individual components that are enabling each essential new skill for your robot are containerized.

YOU decide what you want to enable with the power of Karelics Brain!

Sensor Compatibility

It works by default with a wide range of sensors (cameras, 2D and 3D lidars, Ultrasonics, GPS, UWB sensors, ToF sensors, etc.) and allows the quick integration and support of new devices.

We can write a ROS driver for your sensors if we don’t have it.

Different robot movement kinematics supported

It currently supports different kinds of ground mobile robots, regardless of their mode of traction. Whether your robot has legs, wheels or tracks, Karelics Brain will work with them. Custom types of motion (holonomic, head-first, slow driving in tight spaces) can be defined.

Robots that we already support