Robotics
systems
for Africa
Mercury Labs is building the robotics company Southern Africa needs: autonomous machines, AI systems, and engineering infrastructure designed for local industries, local constraints, and regional scale.
Robotics for industrial and field operations.
AI perception, control, and automation.
Engineering teams built around deployment reality.
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A full-stack robotics company for the region.
We work across the layers that decide whether robotics succeeds outside the demo: machine design, embedded systems, AI models, deployment operations, and long-term support.
Autonomous robotics
Robotic systems for field work, logistics, labs, and industrial environments where reliability matters more than spectacle.
AI perception and control
Computer vision, sensor fusion, planning, and model pipelines that let machines understand, decide, and act in real operating conditions.
Engineering from prototype to production
Mechanical, electronics, embedded software, and cloud systems designed together so prototypes can become maintainable products.
Southern African deployment
Systems shaped for local infrastructure, supply chains, climates, skills, and service models across the region.
Engineering
Sensor payloads, embedded systems, and rugged machine design.
Agriculture
Autonomous field robots built around Southern African farms.
AI operations
Telemetry, perception, simulation, and control in one loop.
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From hard problem to working machine.
The operating model is practical by design. We move from site constraints to prototype, from prototype to measured pilot, and from pilot to deployable system.
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Map the physical problem
We start with the site, task, safety case, maintenance reality, and economics before locking in hardware or AI architecture.
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Build the integrated system
Hardware, embedded control, data, simulation, and model evaluation move together so every subsystem has a measurable job.
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Deploy, learn, and scale
Pilots become operating loops: instrumented machines, serviceable components, feedback from users, and clear paths to regional scale.
Focus
Applied autonomy
Robots and AI systems for industries where better sensing, safer automation, and local engineering capacity can change the economics.
Method
Test before scale
Simulation, field trials, telemetry, and service feedback are treated as core product infrastructure.
Constraint
Local conditions
Connectivity, power, dust, terrain, spares, operator training, and support models shape every design choice.
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Built with operators, researchers, and builders.
Mercury Labs partners with teams that need robotics to work in the messy middle between research promise and operational reality.
Robotics research collaborations
Industrial automation pilots
AI perception and control systems
Embedded hardware prototypes
Field deployment programs
Engineering strategy for automation
Working principle
Build for the terrain, not the pitch deck.
We help teams turn hard physical workflows into machines, software, and operating systems that can be tested, repaired, trusted, and scaled.
04 Contact
Build the next generation of robotics from Southern Africa.
Share the workflow, the site constraints, the people involved, and the outcome you need. We will help map the robotics, AI, and engineering path from first prototype to field deployment.
Best for
Industrial operators, research teams, manufacturers, logistics groups, agriculture, energy, mining, and founders building automation for Southern Africa.