Varia Robotics owns and operates 24/7 amphibious patrol robots that identify, herd, and clear Canada geese from airports, golf courses, and corporate campuses — without handlers, habituation, or take authorization.
The customer pays monthly. Varia Robotics owns and operates the robot 24/7. Below the cost of a dog service — with coverage a dog service structurally cannot provide.
Varies patterns algorithmically to prevent habituation. Self-homes to charging dock. No handler on-site, ever.
YOLOv8 on Jetson Orin Nano — 15ms inference per frame. Chases geese; ignores raptors, songbirds, and protected species.
Follows flocks everywhere — grass, mud, gravel, ponds, retention basins. No tipping axis. IP65+ weather rated.
Fleet-wide behavioral learning over 5G. OTA pattern updates push improvements from every site to every robot globally.
$1,200/mo vs. $3,000–$4,000/mo for border collie services — with 24/7 coverage a dog service cannot provide.
Storms et al. (2022, J. Royal Society Interface): autonomous predator robot — zero detected habituation over a multi-week field trial.
Proven deployments: US Army · US Navy · Petrobras
per unit · 57–67% gross margin · $15K verified OEM BOM · drops to $11K at 50+ units/yr
per unit · 85%+ gross margin · includes 5G, OTA updates, monitoring · compounds with every site
Edge inference at $400. 5G outdoor coverage ubiquitous. The enabling stack is production-ready.
Zero fully autonomous, 24/7, all-weather, amphibious, AI-powered bird-deterrence systems in market today.
Day-1 pilots from GuardBot's existing demonstrator inventory under the OEM agreement.
April 2025 Opinion M-37085: non-lethal autonomous deterrence requires zero federal take authorization.
Full financial model, GTM, cap table, and competitive landscape.