03 / Area of Work

Autonomous Systems & Robotics

As machines become more autonomous, the engineering challenge shifts from simply making them act to making their behavior observable, verifiable, and adaptable to the physical world.

QuantumWorks develops software infrastructure for runtime assurance, mission-level reasoning, embodied sensing, and robotic intelligence.

Runtime assurance
MissionGuard
Embodied sensing and intelligence
EPC

Technical approach

  • Runtime assurance for autonomy
  • Mission contracts and contract validation
  • Fleet-level behavior monitoring
  • Fault detection with auditable evidence
  • Tactile and proprioceptive sensing research
  • Robot observability
  • Simulation and scenario sweeps
  • Human-supervised autonomy

Systems

Work in this area.

MissionGuard

Prototype

A fleet can fail a mission while every vehicle in it looks healthy.

MissionGuard checks black-box mission-autonomy outputs at runtime against declared mission contracts. When a course of action violates a contract, it raises a fault card with evidence and a concrete mitigation hook. A check-engine light for autonomous mission fleets.

  • Runtime Assurance
  • Mission Contracts
  • Course of Action
  • Fault Cards
Learn more about MissionGuard

EPC

Research

Robots see the world but barely feel it.

EPC is a robotics research architecture inspired by biological nervous systems: distributed peripheral sensing, locally encoded contact events, proprioception, and central predictive control, unified by an embodiment-independent somatosensory event schema.

  • Tactile Sensing
  • Proprioception
  • Embodied AI
  • Robot Observability
Learn more about Embodied Predictive Cortex

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