Crossm Systems was founded with a single objective: to build autonomous hardware that actually performs in the real world, outside of controlled demo environments.
The drone industry is split between consumer toys and inaccessible military-industrial monoliths. Meanwhile, most "AI" companies in the space are just building wrappers around cloud APIs, completely dependent on perfect connectivity and GPS.
In the real world—in industrial inspections, emergency response, and defense—you rarely have perfect conditions. If you lose GPS or cell service, standard drones fall out of the sky or trigger a blind return-to-home.
We are engineering systems from the silicon up to solve this. We write our own firmware. We train our own perception models. We deploy them directly onto edge compute modules strapped to airframes we assemble ourselves.
Our systems don't need the cloud to think, and they don't need satellites to navigate. They rely on local vision, SLAM, and inertial odometry. We are building machines that are truly autonomous.
We don't sell concepts. If it's on our site, it has flown. We prioritize working hardware over slick marketing renders every single time.
A drone that needs a 5G connection to process obstacles isn't autonomous; it's just a remote peripheral. All our critical inference happens on-device.
We don't believe in proprietary lock-in. Our software stack is built on ROS2 and standard Linux, making it transparent and extensible for our partners.
Where we design, code, and assemble.