Frequently asked questions

Northstrike Robotics builds the operating system that takes independent autonomous machines and runs them as a single force a human can command.

No. Northstrike Robotics is a software company. We build the coordination layer that runs on autonomous platforms and gets them working together. The value sits at the group level. Whatever hardware a customer brings, we work with it.

Individual autonomous machines already know how to fly themselves and drive themselves. What they cannot do alone is act as a single force that hands off jobs when units are lost and keeps going when the operator link drops. Our platform is the layer that gives them that.

Defense, security, and enterprise operators who run autonomous fleets at scale and need them to hold up under hard conditions.

Most multi-vehicle systems put a central controller in charge of the fleet. Knock that controller out and the fleet stops. Our platform works the other way. Every unit in the force carries the same coordination role, so there is no controller to find. Everything else the system does, from working through jamming to scaling up to a thousand units, comes from that one choice.

Each unit carries everything it needs to coordinate. Nothing depends on a server or a ground station to stay running. Cut the force off from command and the machines carry on with what they were doing. Take out any unit, including the one currently running the mission, and another picks up the role.

Operations continue. Leadership in the force is a role that any unit can hold, and when the unit currently holding it is lost, the next one takes over. The mission keeps going. There is no specific machine an adversary can destroy to collapse the force.

Yes. Jam a single unit and it carries on with its assignment until it can rejoin the network. When an area gets jammed, the force routes around the dead zone, and a thinner channel keeps the operator in contact when full telemetry stops working. Heavy jamming slows the force down without halting the mission.

Lose units mid-mission and the rest keep going. The survivors pick up the dropped assignments on their own. No operator has to stop and rebuild the plan.

Yes. On command, two groups that took losses can merge into one force and continue. A scattered group does not stay scattered.

The same system runs one machine or a thousand. Growing the fleet does not change how the operator works with it. Nothing in the middle has to scale up to support more units.

Operators give objectives. The machines work out who does what. The same goes for any subset of the force, picked by the operator. If the operator link drops mid-mission, the force keeps going on the last objective it was given.

Coordinated operations across the mission spectrum: surveillance and reconnaissance, force protection, perimeter defense, counter-UAS operations, electronic-warfare coordination, escort, search and rescue, and interdiction support. The same system runs all of them. The operator picks the mission and the platform configures to fit it.

Our operating system runs on compute carried by each unit. Nothing has to talk to a ground station or a cloud for the force to coordinate. The current build runs on commercially available edge hardware.

Our platform is built to run on autonomous vehicles a customer already operates. Any platform with a flight or drive controller, air or ground, can host the operating system within sensor and size limits. We do not rebuild the autonomy that's already on the vehicle. We add the layer that makes it operate as part of a commandable force.

Yes. A single force can include air and ground vehicles in the same operation, as well as platforms with different speeds and different sensors. Our operating system works with each platform's characteristics and runs the mixed group as a single coordinated unit.

Software is the product today. A hardware module is on the roadmap, which puts our operating system onto autonomous platforms a customer already owns.

That's the design intent. A customer who already operates an autonomous fleet can bring it into a coordinated force instead of replacing it. The specifics depend on the vehicle. We cover them with you directly in a briefing.

The operator is always in command. What the machines do autonomously is execute the objectives they have been given. The operator decides what the force does and authorizes each action. The operator can change the mission or call it off at any point.

Yes. Northstrike Robotics is Canadian-built. Allied operators run the system themselves, on their own infrastructure, and the capability stays with them.

A centralized system has a built-in weak point: the controller. An adversary who finds it can bring down the whole force. Our platform works the other way. There is no controller. Every unit carries what it needs to keep operating, so an adversary has nothing to knock out that would collapse the force.

Yes. We walk serious partners through what the platform does, in briefings and in live demonstrations. Hardware demos are planned for the near term. The internals stay proprietary.

Request a briefing through the site. We work with defense, security, and enterprise partners. The conversation is shaped around what platforms you operate and what you need to do with them.