Intelligence in flight.
AI robotics company
Your aircraft. Our autonomy software stack. Perceive, plan and execute the mission – without GPS, powered entirely by our onboard brain.
Navigation without GPS, onboard planning and modular software designed to adapt across aircraft. Our foundations were tested in competition; richer scene understanding and agentic reasoning are the next layers we are developing.
Map the environment, plan a route and decide on board. Sensor fusion and autonomous planning supported flight through unknown spaces without satellite positioning in the HERMES competition system.
The intelligence lives in software. Clear interfaces connect reusable modules to the aircraft, sensors and onboard computer, keeping the hardware setup lean. In other words: bring your hardware. We build the autonomy around it.
Behaviour trees make mission logic explicit and amenable to formal analysis. Clear interfaces support modular testing, with verification and communication security as engineering priorities.
Our software foundations grew out of autonomy research tested in the field. University of Klagenfurt teams led by our CEO Luca Di Pierno won two international competitions.
Winner · 2026
Stage 2 final at Erding Air Base, August 2026: unknown environments, no GPS, two aircraft flying at the same time. The HERMES team of the University of Klagenfurt, led by our CEO, won with the autonomy and navigation architecture that is the technical foundation of Vasco.
Winner · 2025
Second SAPIENCE competition, Huntsville, USA, July 2025: cooperating UAVs explore and map a disaster area, locate people and deliver aid without satellite positioning. The University of Klagenfurt team led by our CEO won the competition.