4Front Robotics

4Front Robotics is a Canadian unmanned-vehicle-systems (UVS) company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. The company grew out of research by Dr. Alex Ramirez-Serrano and his team into design, navigation, control and perception for unmanned systems, and builds both aerial and ground platforms for environments that are confined, complex or hard for conventional vehicles to reach.

Its main aerial product is the Navig8 family of twin-ducted-fan VTOL drones, offered in gas-powered (Navig8-32, Navig8-56) and electric (Navig8-E09, Navig8-E16) versions for tasks such as pipeline, power-line and bridge inspection, and operation inside buildings, mine shafts or beneath forest canopy. On the ground side, 4Front builds the Cricket pipeline-inspection robot and omnidirectional vehicles for rough outdoor terrain. The company markets its services for pipeline monitoring, search and rescue, power-line inspection, 3D terrain imaging and environmental monitoring.