Avalon
Avalon is a software agent that lets one operator command a whole team of robots by voice.
A copy of Avalon runs on every robot in the team. The operator gives an order over the radio, and Avalon turns it into a task for each drone and vehicle. It works at the tactical level, out with the team, and needs no link back to base.
The ultimate robot teammates
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See Avalon run a mission, end to end
A single operator runs a three-drone search using only a push-to-talk radio. The team finds a vehicle, tracks it and answers questions about it, all by voice.
Tactical orchestration for mixed fleets
One agent per stack, holding shared mission context between them.
[ Scroll to continue ]The vehicles themselves
A Group 1 drone, an unmanned surface vessel and a crewed combat vehicle. Three vendors, three buses, three data formats.
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Tactical orchestration for mixed fleets
One agent per stack, holding shared mission context between them.
The systems already in use
Push-to-talk radio, ATAK and Lattice. Operators task every platform from the interface they already work in.
One agent per stack
Avalon Lite, Core and Heavy run alongside the autonomy they serve, and hold shared mission context between them.
Each vendor's own software
Skydio's autonomy, Odyssey's mission software, the Boxer's system interface. Each one speaks for its own platform and nothing else.
The vehicles themselves
A Group 1 drone, an unmanned surface vessel and a crewed combat vehicle. Three vendors, three buses, three data formats.
Intent to platform
Operator intent enters through the command layer, is held as shared mission context, and leaves as vendor API calls and vehicle messages.
Lite
The most compact agent. Runs on low-cost platforms at the tactical edge, where compute and power are limited, turning an operator's intent into machine action on one platform.
- PTT radio, no screen
- One order, its own task
- Acts inside intent alone
- Peer handoff
- Single sensor, onboard
- Typical platforms
- sUAS and man-packable UGV
- Compute
- Jetson Orin NX
Core
The cross-domain team leader. Runs on a platform acting as a hub, orchestrating the Lite agents beneath it and holding the picture so each one stays on its own task.
- PTT radio, tasks its team
- Decomposed across its team
- Reallocates as assets change
- Cross-domain teaming
- Multiple, multimodal
- Typical platforms
- Light tactical vehicles, Group 3 UAS
- Compute
- Jetson AGX Orin
Heavy
The mission command agent, for teams of teams. Runs on crewed and optionally crewed platforms, orchestrating downstream agents and working alongside the crew.
- From inside the platform
- Mission orders across teams
- Resolves competing priorities
- Teams of teams
- Advises the crew
- Fused, several models
- Typical platforms
- Large USV and UUV, Group 4 UAS
- Compute
- AGX Orin or Thor
Ultra
The most capable agent. Runs on high-end platforms or at the center of a tactical element, forecasting how the fight develops and passing that picture upstream.
- Multi-operator or forward crew
- Campaign intent across the force
- Recommends courses of action
- Predictive intelligence
- Supports a command element
- Fused, into your C2 or BMS
- Typical platforms
- Recce and fighting vehicles
- Compute
- Jetson Thor
Questions we get asked
What Avalon does, what it runs on, and what it leaves to the systems already in place.
[ i ] Updated as new questions come in.
An AI agent that runs onboard each robot and sensor in a team. It takes plain-language intent from an operator, decides what its own platform should do, and coordinates with the other agents so the team works as one.
No. Navigation, obstacle avoidance and flight control stay with the platform's own stack. Avalon commands that stack through its published interfaces, such as ROS 2, MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot and DDS.
Jetson-class compute on the platform and a radio link between platforms. Avalon runs in about 25 watts with no cloud service in the loop, and each agent keeps working to the mission if the link drops.
In plain language, over the push-to-talk radio they already carry. There is no command syntax to memorize, and new operators are working with the team within about 15 minutes.
Avalon reports fleet state, detections and task outcomes into ATAK, Lattice and vehicle battle management systems. It feeds the common operating picture rather than competing with it.
Always. Every action is bounded by limits the operator sets, and the operator can override any platform at any time. Ask a platform why it acted and it explains in plain English, with reference to the mission brief.
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Engineers and operators in Austin and Sydney, building robots that take orders over the radio.
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