The Spatial System of Record for Physical AI

Shared spatial intelligence for robotics,

automation, and defense.

Increasing Robot Density

You increase the number of robots to improve throughput. At first, it works.

Then robots begin to conflict at shared paths. Intersections become unpredictable. Small layout changes ripple through the system. Throughput plateaus—and in some cases, drops.

Engineers and integrators get to work:

  • “We need more buffer zones.”
  • “Let’s add rules to avoid conflicts.”
  • “We’ll handle multi-vendor coordination in the FMS.”

These fixes work for a while. Then layouts change, new robots are added—and the same costly problems return:

  • stalled robots
  • manual intervention
  • degraded throughput
  • growing operational complexity

Why does this keep happening?

The Coordination Gap

It happens because each system is operating on its own map of the same environment, each with a different view—with no shared reference to reconcile them.

As a result, systems make conflicting decisions about the same physical space. Coordination breaks down—not because the systems are wrong, but because they are not aligned.

As robot density increases, these conflicts stop being isolated. They become the limiting factor on throughput.

  1. In Practice

The fleet manager, vision system and robots each act on a different view of the same scene.

The Spatial System of Record

AWE solves this problem at the root

Using spatial measurements derived from vision systems, sensors, and telemetry, AWE establishes a persistent, GPS-independent coordinate frame across the operational environment.

As the environment changes—objects move, layouts shift—the spatial frame evolves with it, maintaining alignment across all systems over time.

Instead of isolated maps, every agent operates from a single, continuously updated spatial record.

  1. Shared Spatial State: AWE

All systems are aligned and coordinating in real time.

Scale Automation With Confidence

What This Enables

Higher Automation Density

Add more robots without introducing coordination failures

Flexible Operations

Change layouts and workflows without reprogramming or drift

Resilient Flow

Maintain throughput in dense, multi-agent environments

Rapid, Repeatable Commissioning

Keep simulation and physical deployment aligned without repeated manual recalibration

Become a Design Partner

For teams increasing robot deployments or operating in multi-vendor environments.

We are selecting a small number of design partners to validate this system in real-world living lab environments at the Waterloo RoboHub and Area X.O.

Automation Leads and Plant Operators

Increase robot density and change workflows without introducing coordination failures.

Systems Integrators

No safety recertification. No control loop changes. Deploy once, repeat across your client base.

Robotics Companies

Give your robots a shared spatial reference so they can coordinate reliably across systems.

Proven in Real Environments

Built on 14 years of spatial systems work—across mixed reality, large-scale location tracking, and physical AI.

Selected Clients and Partners

Research Partners