Quadrupedal robots for inspection, security, and military operations
Ghost Robotics manufactures legged autonomous robots (Q-UGVs) designed for unstructured terrain in industrial, infrastructure, military, and energy sectors. The tech stack is deeply embedded—C/C++, ROS 2, simulation frameworks (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo), SLAM (ORB-SLAM, Cartographer), and real-time control (FreeRTOS, EtherCAT)—reflecting the mechanical and perception complexity of quadruped locomotion. Active hiring is engineering-heavy (6 roles, mostly senior/mid-level) focused on advanced control, state estimation, and computer vision, signaling effort to close the gap between research prototypes and field-ready systems.
Ghost Robotics develops rugged quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (Q-UGVs) for inspection, asset management, security, and scientific work across industrial manufacturing, mining, oil & gas, infrastructure, and military applications. The company operates two product lines: VISION series for commercial and industrial use, and WRAITH series as a hardened military variant. Founded in 2015 and based in Philadelphia, the company is privately held and backed by institutional and angel investors. With 51–200 employees, Ghost Robotics is scaling engineering capacity to address field reliability and performance challenges in complex real-world environments.
Core languages: C/C++, Python. Simulation and robotics: ROS 2, Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet. Perception: ORB-SLAM, Cartographer, GTSAM, MoveIt. Real-time control: FreeRTOS, EtherCAT, STM32. Also: CUDA, OpenCL, Linux, Altium for hardware design.
Next-generation legged robotic platform, advanced control architectures, state estimation pipelines, SLAM and localization, computer vision integration, payload communication and deployment, automated diagnostics, and perception system performance evaluation.
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