Philadelphia-based robotics company Asylon announced Tuesday that it raised a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures, and the GO PA Fund.
Asylon began as a drone company for securing facilities. It’s best known for a drone that has a robotic arm that can change its own batteries.
But it also has a robotic guard dog service called DroneDog. Asylon takes the famed Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot and modifies it for guard work and to integrate with its command-and-control Guardian software. Asylon offers the drones, dogs, and software as its robotic security as a service (RaaS).
A site can be secured with ground patrols via robot dogs and flying cameras that cover more areas than stationary cameras. DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs. And they can perform almost dog sniffing-like tasks such as detecting gas leaks or dangerous chemicals.