Military Times · Oct 2024
Covers the Army's Sandhills Project and broader robotic breaching efforts, providing context for Hermes Robotics' autonomous M113 breaching vehicle work.
Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Hermes Robotics builds an autonomy retrofit kit that turns existing vehicles into low-speed autonomous platforms. The company first marketed the product for street-sweeping and other fleet retrofits, and later public posts and reporting show the same autonomy package being adapted for military breaching vehicles.
Primary product
Autonomy retrofit kit for low-speed vehicles
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Autonomy retrofit kits / robotics
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (3 sites reported on LinkedIn)
Business model
Hardware retrofit kits
Software-enabled autonomy package
Fleet installation / retrofit services
Autonomous street-sweeping as a service
Funding
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$250K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Apr 2021
Latest amount
$125K
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO - CTO
Founders
Co-Founder
Work & culture
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly standardized; appears to use a hardware retrofit sale plus software fee/subscription after beta, with installation/retrofit services and direct purchase call-to-action on the website.
Differentiators
- —Retrofits existing vehicles instead of building new autonomous platforms
- —Targets low-speed, closed-route operations
- —Street-sweeping / fleet operations are a practical early use case
- —Can be deployed on existing fleets with limited new hardware
- —Shown in public reporting to work without a safety driver in some tests
Technology
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Python
C++
RRT
Customers
Cities
Waste-management companies
Commercial pavement sweeping operators
Municipal fleets
U.S. Army / Sandhills Project
Competitors
VectorZero
Echiev
CIDI
NASN Automotive Electronics
Aurora
Einride
TuSimple
Gatik
PlusAI
Kodiak Robotics
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$5M
Estimated monthly visits
535
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Defense One · Aug 2024
Explains how Hermes Robotics' autonomy kit evolved into the M113-based breaching platform used by the Sandhills Project and notes Herail's estimate that large-scale retrofits could be relatively inexpensive.
LinkedIn post by Guilhem Herail · Aug 2024
Herail shared the Outlaw Breaching Vehicle live-fire update and described the M113 autonomous appliqué kit and remote MICLIC launch capability.
North American Sweeper Magazine · Feb 2022
Discusses Hermes Robotics' driverless sweeping product, early pilots, deployment model, and the shift from beta testing to a hardware plus software fee structure.
TechCrunch · Mar 2021
Early coverage of Hermes Robotics’ street-cleaning retrofit use case, its existing customers, and why retrofitting fleet vehicles was seen as a strong wedge.
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