Vilota joins CORE Start

Vilota, co-founded by Brenton Welford and Huimin Cheng, is on a mission to democratize visual perception and localization, empowering OEMs and integrators to enhance their robotic applications through modular, accessible, and reliable standalone perception systems. Their advanced Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) and Depth Sensing algorithms provide valuable locational data, enabling autonomy, precise positioning, and other perception-based applications.

Satellite positioning is core to many of the applications we use in our personal and professional lives. We rely on positioning for navigation, when checking the weather, or when using Find my Device. It's also used by businesses, emergency services, and even the military to coordinate and track movements of assets, people and vehicles.

With this technology all around us, it might come as some surprise that the operational scope of GNSS critical applications is largely limited to open sky environments. Signals are not able to penetrate reliably through building structures, or suffer from signal attenuation and reflections, making indoor and underground positioning by GNSS unreliable. 

Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) provide an effective solution for localisation both with and without satellite connectivity and is extending the limits of localization for navigation, fleet management, and asset tracking using Visual Locational data.

Brenton Welford, co-founder of Vilota has spent the last ten years building companies which utilise drones, robots, 3D special data, and autonomous vehicles to address some of the big problems in mining, energy, and smart-cities.   

Vilota's dedication to democratizing visual perception and localization, combined with their strategic growth plan, positions them as a promising startup. Through CORE Start, they have the opportunity to establish themselves in the market and build their brand as they work towards revolutionizing the perception capabilities of robotic applications.