Clearpath Robotics

Clearpath Robotics company profile

Clearpath Robotics builds mobile robot platforms for research, development and autonomy testing. Its land, air and sea robots give universities and companies rugged hardware for navigation, perception, manipulation and field-robotics experiments.

Facts

Segment: Industrial
Country: Canada
Website: https://clearpathrobotics.com/

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Summary

Market context

Its platforms are widely used as development hardware for ROS-based autonomy, field robotics and mobile manipulation, making Clearpath an important bridge between robotics research and deployable systems. Public manuals and integration pages cite Intel and Jetson compute options, UR arms on Husky mobile manipulator configs, and supported SICK / Velodyne sensor accessories.

Products

Dingo
Husky A300
Jackal UGV
Ridgeback
TurtleBot 4
Warthog UGV

Facts

Website: https://clearpathrobotics.com/
HQ: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Segment: Industrial

Unmanned ground vehicles and autonomous mobile robot platforms for research and industry

Clearpath Robotics designs and manufactures unmanned ground vehicles and autonomous mobile robot platforms. Its Husky, Jackal and Warthog UGVs serve research applications, while the OTTO Motors line provides industrial AMRs. Acquired by Rockwell Automation in 2023 for approximately $600M, Clearpath has been a key contributor to the ROS community.

Target environment: Research labs, industrial facilities, field robotics test sites, warehouses and manufacturing environments.
Deployment model: Robot platform manufacturer model, supplying UGVs and AMRs for research and industrial use, supported by autonomy software, integration services and a global ROS community.
Customer context: Researchers, universities, industrial operators, warehouse managers and robotics developers in over 40 countries.
Workflow context: Autonomous navigation, mobile manipulation, field robotics research, industrial material transport, ROS development and custom robot integration.
Commercial maturity: Clearpath is commercially mature with established product lines, a global customer base and acquisition by Rockwell Automation.
Market position: Established UGV and AMR platform manufacturer with a strong ROS ecosystem presence and industrial adoption through OTTO Motors.
Adoption constraints: Industrial customer procurement cycles, integration complexity, research-to-production gap, competition and sensor and software compatibility.
Adjacent context: Unmanned ground vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, ROS ecosystem, research robotics platforms and warehouse automation.
Source confidence: high

Events

2026-06-03 - Research Publication - VASO paper evaluates formally verifiable physical-AI skills on Clearpath Jackal - The VASO paper introduces a self-evolving robot-skill method that turns formal-verification counterex…
2026-05-13 - Research Publication - Safety-constrained RL paper validates reachability-checked navigation on Clearpath Jackal - The paper combines CVaR-constrained reinforcement learning with post-training reachability…
2026-05-07 - Research Publication - GA3T dataset uses Clearpath Husky for air-ground traversability research - The GA3T paper presents a real-world multi-robot perception dataset collected with a Clearpath Husky UGV and…
2025-12-10 - Research Publication - YOPO-Nav paper benchmarks visual navigation on Clearpath Jackal trajectories - YOPO-Nav uses one-pass exploration videos and 3D Gaussian Splatting graphs for visual navigation without…
2025-10-30 - Research Publication - Heterogeneous robot-collaboration paper runs real-world missions with Clearpath Jackal - The paper proposes a grounded generative-intelligence framework for heterogeneous robot teams…
2025-09-30 - Research Publication - Kinodynamic-planning paper reports off-road field experiments with Clearpath Warthog UGV - The paper studies kinodynamic motion planning across inconsistent world models for mobile ro…
2025-09-16 - Research Publication - Zero-to-autonomy paper tests online dynamics adaptation on Clearpath Jackal - The paper presents an online dynamics-adaptation method that updates function-encoder coefficients from s…
2025-08-03 - Research Publication - HALO paper deploys human-preference reward learning on Clearpath Husky - The HALO paper introduces an offline reward-learning method that turns human navigation preferences into a vis…
2024-10-17 - Research Publication - Researchers publish jailbreaking study for LLM-controlled robots - The paper evaluates jailbreaking risks for LLM-controlled robots using a Jackal UGV platform.
2024-09-30 - Research Publication - VLM-GroNav evaluates physically grounded outdoor navigation on Clearpath Husky - The VLM-GroNav paper combines vision-language models with physically grounded proprioceptive signals f…
2024-07-26 - Research Publication - ROS 2 Nav2 agricultural-navigation paper validates real-time costmap updates on Husky - The paper extends the ROS 2 Navigation Stack with depth-camera classification and real-time loc…
2024-07-13 - Research Publication - Speech-Guided Sequential Planning for Autonomous Navigation using Large Language Model Meta AI 3 (Llama3) - The paper studies speech-guided sequential planning for autonomous navigati…
2024-05-28 - Research Publication - Sensor-Based Distributionally Robust Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments - We introduce a novel method for mobile robot navigation in dynamic, unknown environmen…
2024-05-03 - Research Publication - ROS2swarm - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors - The paper presents ROS2swarm and includes Jackal UGV experiments for swarm robot behaviors.
2024-02-15 - Research Publication - Behavioral-entropy exploration paper evaluates Clearpath Warthog UGV in ROS-Unity simulation - The paper introduces generalized behavioral entropy as an exploration objective for auto…
2023-09-05 - Acquisition - Rockwell Automation signs agreement to acquire Clearpath Robotics - Rockwell Automation announced a definitive agreement to acquire Clearpath Robotics, describing the company as a leader in au…
2023-03-14 - Product Launch - Clearpath Robotics launches Husky Observer - The system paired the Husky base with autonomous navigation and sensor integration.
2023-03-07 - Research Publication - One-4-All: Neural Potential Fields for Embodied Navigation - The paper evaluates neural potential fields for embodied navigation with a Jackal UGV.
2022-09-19 - Research Publication - Loc-NeRF: Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields - The paper localizes a Jackal UGV using Monte Carlo localization with neural radiance fields.

Team

Matt Rendall - Co-Founder - Founder row explains Clearpath's origin as a field robotics and mobile robot platform company before the OTTO Motors and Rockwell Automation acquisition path.
Ryan Gariepy - Co-Founder - Adds technical founder context for Clearpath's mobile robot platforms, research robots and industrial AMR lineage.

Supply chain relationships

Luxonis - Perception hardware supplier - Luxonis supplies OAK cameras for Clearpath Robotics.
MicroStrain - MicroStrain inertial sensors and ROS drivers - MicroStrain established a ROS partnership with Clearpath Robotics for IMU/GNSS/INS support on Clearpath robot platforms.

Relationships

Rockwell Automation - acquired_company - Rockwell Automation acquired Clearpath Robotics to expand its autonomous mobile robot and production logistics portfolio.
acquired_company - Clearpath Robotics has a public acquisition relationship with Rockwell Automation (acquirer).

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