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Robot arm capturing 3D scans of physical products
A secure data connection from a Universal Robots arm capturing 3D scans of products to a cloud-based AI for defect and fraud detection.
Use cases
Machine data, put to work
Real projects from the MerkleBot team — connecting robots, sharing equipment, storing visual data and financing automation.
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Equipment sharing in a public laboratory
By supporting Boston Dynamics Spot SDK we allow any developer globally to remotely program a robot we own, located in the lab in the Bay Area.
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Affordable storage of visual data
Mobile robotics company is saving up to 10x on storage of large datasets of videos and visual data by backing up the archive to decentralized storage network.
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Robot-as-a-service powered by data
We connected the data feed from an industrial arm to a financing source to power a novel robot-as-a-service business model.
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Telescope service in Atacama desert
A team of astronomers in Chile enabled additional revenue stream and community-building tool by connecting telescope data.
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Robot arm capturing 3D scans of physical products
A secure data connection from a Universal Robots arm capturing 3D scans of products to a cloud-based AI for defect and fraud detection.
Challenge
High-resolution 3D scans had to travel from the production floor to a cloud AI model without exposing raw data or slowing the line.
Solution
The MerkleBot Agent packages each scan with robot pose and product metadata, encrypts it, hashes it and streams it over a resumable pipeline to the inference service. Results flow back into the same index.
Result
Every inspection is traceable from scan to verdict, and the team can re-run new models on the historical archive at any time.
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Equipment sharing in a public laboratory
By supporting Boston Dynamics Spot SDK we allow any developer globally to remotely program a robot we own, located in the lab in the Bay Area.
Challenge
Developers wanted to learn the Spot SDK, but very few have physical access to a quadruped robot.
Solution
A booking and sandbox layer lets a developer upload code, run it on the real robot under supervision and safety limits, and watch live video and telemetry. Each session is recorded and indexed.
Result
A real robot became a shared, programmable resource for a global developer community — the model behind our Remote Robotics Lab service.
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Affordable storage of visual data
Mobile robotics company is saving up to 10x on storage of large datasets of videos and visual data by backing up the archive to decentralized storage network.
Challenge
Camera-heavy mobile robots generated a fast-growing video archive that was expensive to keep in a hyperscaler and rarely accessed.
Solution
Hot data stayed in the existing cloud for training, while the long-tail archive was encrypted and backed up to a decentralized storage network with content addressing and multi-provider redundancy.
Result
Up to 10x lower storage cost for the archive, with every file still verifiable and retrievable on demand.
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Robot-as-a-service powered by data
We connected the data feed from an industrial arm to a financing source to power a novel robot-as-a-service business model.
Challenge
Southie Autonomy Works, a no-code AI robot deployment company, needed an industrial arm (Mitsubishi Electric RV-7FRL) for a contract-packaging client — without upfront CAPEX.
Solution
Smart Lease connected the arm's usage data to a financing source and offered a flexible as-a-service payment plan, giving the team time to deploy and validate the software.
Result
The equipment arrived on time, costs stayed aligned with the client's income, and the automation project could prove its ROI before scaling.
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Telescope service in Atacama desert
A team of astronomers in Chile enabled additional revenue stream and community-building tool by connecting telescope data.
Challenge
An autonomous telescope under the dark skies of the Atacama desert sat idle for much of the time, and its operators wanted to involve a wider community.
Solution
We connected the telescope to a booking service: users anywhere could choose an astronomical object and request an observation, with weather-aware availability and automatic delivery of the resulting image.
Result
A new revenue stream and a community-building tool for the astronomy team, powered by connected equipment data.
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Where MerkleBot fits
Manufacturing
Cycle data, quality inspection images and controller logs from arms and cells.
Logistics & warehousing
AMR navigation logs, pick events and camera archives at scale.
Drones & agriculture
Flight logs, multispectral imagery and field telemetry from UAV fleets.
Research & education
Shared robots and instruments with recorded, reproducible sessions.
Inspection & energy
Legged and crawler robots capturing thermal, acoustic and visual data.
Smart buildings & IoT
Sensor networks, cameras and gateways streaming into one platform.
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