Titan Robotics

TITAN Robotics, Inc. is an American industrial-robotics startup headquartered in Coraopolis in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area (Pennsylvania). The company was founded in late 2014 by Carnegie Mellon University faculty to commercialize award-winning technology developed at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) for aerospace robotics applications. Early development was funded in part by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and in 2016 the technology was formally transferred from CMU/NREC to TITAN.

The core of its offering is The Titan Controller — a proprietary integrated hardware-software ecosystem implementing an adaptive-autonomy paradigm for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing. Instead of classical robot programming, the operator uploads a 3D part model and tunes a process recipe (force, speed, coverage), and the system — using machine vision, force sensors and dynamic online motion planning — aligns to the real part and executes the task in real time, without re-teaching or hard fixturing. The company claims to achieve Level IV+ industrial autonomy.

TITAN's primary applications are surface processing and repair in the aerospace and defense industries: laser paint removal, cold spray, radome repair, sanding and painting. A key partner is the U.S. Air Force, for which TITAN modernizes aircraft maintenance. The company expanded from a single depot to multiple locations, opening offices in Utah (2018) and Georgia (2024). The company is private.