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Dumb modules.
One smart brain.

A Titan machine is a brain plus attachments. Hardware modules — wheels, legs, sensors, speakers, radios, batteries, the hand — are deliberately cheap, dumb, and swappable, because all the intelligence lives in the brain. Ten module types, one rule: I/O with a connector, zero smarts on board.

The Split

Intelligence is expensive.
Centralize it once.

Putting smarts in every peripheral makes every peripheral expensive, fragile, and unupgradable. Titan splits the machine three ways instead — and only one of the three needs to be intelligent.

The Brain

Makes every decision.

The compute unit running Titan Core OS. Fuses every sensor into one picture, runs the models, plans the mission, commands every actuator. All intelligence, one place, updated over the air.

Skills

Software, loaded in.

What the brain knows how to do: map, localize, plan, decide, grasp, run a patrol. Each skill is one signed registration — easy to load, swap, or leave out.

Hardware Modules

Deliberately dumb.

Wheels, legs, sensors, speakers, spotlights, microphones, radios, the hand. Near-zero onboard intelligence — so they stay cheap, interchangeable, and replaceable in the field in minutes.

Hardware Modules

Cheap parts.
Expensive picture.

A module is I/O with a connector: signal out, commands in, health reported. The brain merges every sensor stream it's given into one fused picture — so adding a $40 infrared camera makes the whole machine smarter, without a line of firmware.

LOCOMOTION

Wheels · Legs · Rotors

Drive trains, leg assemblies, and rotor sets carry no autonomy of their own — they execute velocity and gait commands from the brain and report encoder state back.

Commodity actuators, sourced from multiple vendors
Field-swappable in minutes — a broken leg is a part, not a repair program
The brain's motion layer retunes per body; the mission logic never changes
SENSING

Cameras · IR · LiDAR · Microphones

RGB and thermal-infrared cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic, microphones — each module just streams calibrated signal. Understanding happens in the brain, which fuses every stream into one picture.

More sensors = a more accurate fused picture, not more firmware
Overlapping modalities cover each other — lose LiDAR, vision and radar carry on
Add a new modality and the fusion layer absorbs it; no per-sensor intelligence to maintain
EMITTERS

Speakers · Spotlights · Beacons

Announce, illuminate, signal. An emitter is a switched output with a health report — the decision of when to speak or light up is always the brain's, and always audited.

Zero onboard logic — safe to source cheaply
Driven through the same command channel as every actuator
Patrol announcements, SAR signaling, delivery notifications — same hardware, different skill
COMMS

Radios · Cellular · Satellite

Link hardware is swappable per deployment — Wi-Fi on a closed site, cellular in the field, satellite beyond coverage. The brain classifies whatever link it gets and picks the operating mode.

One link-health contract regardless of radio
Multiple radios can back each other up like any redundant pair
Comms-denied is an operating mode, not a hardware failure
DISPERSED SENSING

Module ESP — Extended Sensor Pods

Droppable sensing pods with no locomotion at all: a machine disperses them along its mission and they watch continuously — cameras and probes holding position between fleet passes.

Placed and recovered by machines; deployment is a mission task
Days-to-weeks dwell with low-power profiles and optional solar
Reports mesh through passing machines into the same fleet picture
POWER

Battery Packs · Solar Panels

Power is the one dependency every robot shares, so it's modular too. Battery packs are swappable units a machine can carry as spares — and hand its own to another. The solar panel module keeps outdoor units topped up between missions.

Hot-swappable packs — a dead battery is a part change, not a recovery operation
A hand-equipped machine drops a fresh pack into a battery-dead unit: field rescue as a mission task
Solar module extends outdoor endurance and unattended dwell time at zero marginal cost
MANIPULATION

Module 1T3F Hand

The hand is the proof of the model: an underactuated tendon mechanism with no intelligence of its own. Snap it onto an ISO-9409 mount and the brain loads the grasp skill; remove it and nothing else changes.

Grasp sequencing, force limits, and every actuation live in the brain
Per-digit force enforced against the hand's rated ceiling
Battery rescue: carries spare packs and revives a dead teammate in the field
Third-party arms on the same mount speak the same contract
COMPUTE

Accelerator Packs

The brain itself can take a spare: an accelerator pack adds inference headroom for heavier on-device models. In a model-first OS, more compute is a module away — not a new machine.

Bigger VLA or vision+LLM composition on the same platform
Sized per mission: patrol runs lean, inspection carries the heavy model
Same swap story as every other module — a part, not a rebuild
CARGO & PAYLOAD

Lockers · Tanks · Winches

What the machine carries is modular too: lockable delivery compartments, liquid tanks for spraying, winches for aerial lowering. The mission profile knows which payload it has; the payload knows nothing.

Lockable compartments open on brain command at the dropoff — audited
Tank level and winch state are just telemetry channels
Same chassis runs delivery Monday, spraying Tuesday
TOOLS & IMPLEMENTS

Task Tools

Task-specific implements — brushes, cutters, probes, task grippers — mount downstream of the wrist via the tool-changer. Dumb by design, driven by the brain's skill for that task.

Tool-changer mount: swap implements between missions, not machines
A soil probe or gas sensor is a tool and a telemetry source at once
New tool = new skill registration, zero firmware
INTERACTION

Displays · Buttons · Indicators

Where machines meet people: a status display, an acknowledge button, delivery confirmation. Pure I/O — the brain decides what to show and how to respond, and logs every interaction.

Recipient-facing confirmation at the dropoff
On-machine status legibility for people sharing the site
Every human interaction lands in the audit chain
Redundancy, Both Ways

Spare parts and spare skills.

Because modules are dumb, doubling one is cheap: two cameras fuse into a better picture, two radios back each other up. Because skills are registered, doubling one is a single registration: a standby localizer or a conservative fallback planner, with an arbiter deciding who's active and every switchover audited.

Doubling a sensorFused automatically
Doubling a skillOne registration
Every switchoverAudited, with cause
Safety executorNever a candidate