Rocos
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Rocos was a New Zealand-based robotics software company founded in 2017 by co-founder and CEO David Inggs. Its cloud platform let customers build and manage robot fleets — connecting, monitoring and controlling anything from rolling rovers to Boston Dynamics robots — with a cloud backbone linking robotics to AI, third-party APIs and visualization. It raised about $1.44 million. In August 2021 it was acquired by DroneDeploy.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
David Inggs founded Rocos in New Zealand as a cloud platform for robot fleets.
- Acquired
DroneDeploy acquired Rocos to combine aerial drones and ground robots for job-site automation.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
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In August 2021, San Francisco-based DroneDeploy announced it had acquired Rocos.
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The deal let DroneDeploy's customers in construction, energy and agriculture deploy and orchestrate both aerial drones and ground robots on their job sites — moving toward complete job-site automation.
- 03
Rocos co-founder David Inggs became DroneDeploy's head of ground robotics.