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AI · August 18, 2026

Salem Robotics

Deploy autonomous robots for surveys and manipulation tasks

Salem Robotics launched on August 18, 2026 with 77 votes, #533 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

Robot software brain for autonomous surveys, inspections, and manipulation in hazardous facilities. Instead of sending technicians in with handheld detectors and clipboards, an operator draws the route on a dashboard. The robot navigates, opens doors, turns valves, takes measurements, and returns a compliance-ready report with heatmaps and flagged risks. Hardware-agnostic, built on published research by PhD roboticists with a decade at Los Alamos. Deploy on your robot, or we provide one with it.

Plan, execute, and report autonomous inspection, survey, and manipulation missions in hazardous facilities.

No coding required. From a dashboard on your phone or computer, draw the survey route, apply a couple of settings, and the robot takes it from there, opening doors and moving obstacles if it has to, collecting your data along the way. A supervisor or operator opens the dashboard on a phone or a computer and draws the survey route straight onto the facility map. Set the stops, apply a couple of settings, and the mission is ready. No waypoint files, no robotics expertise required. The platform handles the real-world friction along the way, opening doors, working around people and equipment, and moving obstacles out of the path when it has to. It surveys, inspects, and manipulates in the same…from salemroboticsinc.com

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