Alexander Baikovitz, Mach9 co-founder and CEO, said he got into this space while at Carnegie Mellon University. As a robotics student researcher, he worked on infrastructure projects like decontaminating legacy nuclear facilities for the U.S. Department of Energy, and he realized that “a lot of the robotics problems that we were solving were actually hardcore survey and mapping problems.” Which is to say, infrastructure projects are often halted from the beginning — even armed with the best robots to venture into radiation-filled facilities like the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington state — if you don’t have robust data on where things are and the state they’re in.
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