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Robotics + Data Company
One platform: a machine that works, and a system that learns.
Northline is built as two tightly-coupled products — an autonomous ground robot and the data infrastructure behind it. The robot performs the task. The platform turns every minute of operation into structured, reusable intelligence.
01 Positioning
The robot is the data-collection endpoint of a larger system.
Conventional service robots are sold as appliances. Northline machines are sold as instrumented nodes: each one continuously maps terrain, records environmental conditions, and benchmarks its own performance.
That data flows back to a central platform where it improves planning models, validates new behaviours in simulation, and ships back to the fleet as over-the-air updates. The more we deploy, the smarter every machine becomes — a compounding advantage that a single-asset competitor cannot match.
02 System Architecture
Perception to actuation, with a telemetry spine through the middle.
03 Sensor Stack
Eleven sensors, fused to see through winter.
- Rotating LiDAR128-channel · 120 m
- Primary 3D structure and obstacle field, retuned to reject snow return and airborne particulate.
- Imaging radar4D · 200 m
- Velocity-aware sensing that holds up in whiteout, fog, and blowing snow where optics degrade.
- Thermal + RGBdual-band · 60/80 m
- Pedestrian and heat-signature detection, day or night, with redundant visual confirmation.
- RTK-GNSS + IMUcm-grade · 200 Hz
- Centimetre positioning and dead-reckoning continuity through GNSS-denied gaps.
04 Telemetry Platform
Operations you can see, measure, and trust.
Every unit streams position, sensor health, traction, energy, and task progress to a single operations layer. Supervisors monitor the fleet in real time, set geofenced work zones, and trigger remote safe-stop. Nothing about a deployment is a black box.
05 Machine-Learning Pipeline
Field data becomes fleet capability — on a loop.
06 Autonomy Roadmap
From supervised winter ops to a multi-domain fleet.
Phase 01 — Supervised autonomy
Blackweaver runs defined work zones under remote supervision. Teleassist on exception. Full telemetry capture from day one.
Phase 02 — Conditional autonomy at scale
One operator supervises multiple units across a site. Behaviour library hardened against winter edge cases via the Ontario beta cohort.
Phase 03 — Cross-domain transfer
The same autonomy stack extends to inspection, mapping, and property maintenance — proven by the data flywheel built in winter.
Phase 04 — Continental fleet network
A self-improving fleet operating across climates and tasks, with a field-data corpus that compounds into a durable moat.
See the platform run this winter.
Beta cohort sites get hands-on access to the operations layer and the data their site generates.