Ascento Timeline

Events

• 2024-11-12 - Product Launch - Ascento introduces Guard 2.0 for critical-infrastructure patrol - Guard 2.0 provides eight hours of battery life and improved front, side and rear vision for large-perimeter monitoring. Customer deployments span data centres, pharmaceutical campuses, manufacturing sites and logistics facilities. Ascento introduced Guard… - source: linkedin.com
• 2023-09-12 - Funding - Ascento raises $4.3M pre-seed round - Wingman Ventures and Playfair Capital led the round, with participation from robotics founders and non-dilutive support from Innosuisse and ESA BIC. The financing supported fleet growth and expansion of the sales and operations team. - source: techcrunch.com
• 2023-09-12 - Product Launch - Ascento launches autonomous outdoor security robot Ascento Guard - The robot was designed for perimeter checks, parking control, thermal-anomaly detection and other repetitive patrol tasks at large outdoor sites. The Robotics-as-a-Service package combined the robot with an encrypted operator application and autonomous… - source: itbusinessnet.com
• 2023-04-11 - Deployment - Securitas trials Ascento security robots at an SBB site - The trial had run for several months and covered repeated outdoor patrols at the railway facility. Ascento clarified that Securitas was testing the system and that Swiss Federal Railways was the trial site rather than a direct customer. - source: ictjournal.ch
• 2020-05-23 - Research Publication - Ascento team publishes two-wheeled jumping-robot research - The prototype combined fast wheeled travel with obstacle-clearing jumps in mixed indoor environments. The paper documented the mechanical architecture and controllers that preceded Ascento’s commercial security-robot work. The ETH Zurich team behind Ascento… - source: arxiv.org