Copper Robotics provides a Physical AI operating system that lets robotics teams define their robot architecture statically and execute code deterministically, enabling exact replay of behavior on workstations for fast debugging. Built in Rust, the OS delivers up to 100× lower latency than ROS2 and 10× higher lossless logging throughput, offering deep observability across autonomous aerial, driving, humanoid, space, and underwater platforms.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Developing and deploying autonomous robots is challenged by unpredictable runtime behavior, limited observability, and high latency in existing middleware, making debugging and certification difficult.
Solution
Copper Robotics offers a Physical AI operating system designed to make robot software deterministic and fully described before deployment. The platform enables engineers to statically define robot architectures, ensuring that behavior can be replayed exactly on workstations for rapid issue resolution. Built in Rust, the OS provides low-latency execution—claimed to be up to 100× faster than ROS2—and high-throughput, lossless logging for comprehensive runtime insight. By breaking robot behavior into fine-grained components without performance penalties, teams can iterate safely and meet certification requirements more efficiently.
Target Audience
Primary customers are robotics engineering teams building autonomous aerial systems, self‑driving vehicles, humanoid robots, space exploration robots, and underwater autonomous platforms.
Features
- 100% statically described robot architecture for compile-time validation and deterministic execution
- Deterministic replay capability allowing developers to reproduce and debug issues on a workstation
- Rust-based implementation delivering memory safety and a clear path toward safety certification
- Up to 100× lower latency compared to ROS2, supporting fine-grained behavior decomposition
- 10× higher logging throughput with zero data loss for full observability of runtime data
- Open ecosystem with APIs and tooling to integrate across autonomous aerial, driving, humanoid, space, and underwater platforms