I build efficient spatial intelligence for robots to perceive, navigate, and act together, envisioning a future defined by collaborative autonomy.

Coordinated drones can divide large fields, share crop and weed observations, and redirect effort toward emerging hotspots. The EU-funded SAGA project explored this approach for faster weed mapping and more targeted field treatment.

A cooperative fleet can divide bridges and rail corridors into inspection zones, capture complementary viewpoints, and synchronize findings. The EU Drones4Safety project developed a collaborative swarm system and tested it in bridge and railway inspection cases.

The August 2026 Nepal–Tibet glacier collapse triggered a catastrophic flood with severe loss of life. At Blatten in 2025, surveillance and hazard assessment enabled residents to evacuate nine days before a rock–ice avalanche destroyed much of the Swiss village; no resident died.

Blatten was not monitored by cameras alone. On the evacuation day, ground-based interferometric radar was installed in the valley to track movement; a camera installed on the glacier’s eastern moraine the day before the collapse captured its final acceleration. Across the far larger, remote Himalaya, collaborative drones could complement satellites and selected ground sensors by repeatedly mapping difficult slopes and sharing changes for earlier risk assessment.