Fix complicated damage
with robots.
Ultri Robotics builds physical AI that reads damaged geometry and restores it. Our autonomous cells scan a damaged panel, collision or hail, work each dent with force-controlled pulls, and verify each repair against the undamaged panel around it.
The problem
Everything about a damaged car is software.
Except the repair.
Estimating, imaging, claims: decades of software sophistication wrapped around a repair that is still one skilled human with a rod.
The humans are there. What varies is the quality of the work. Many technicians work on contract, moving from storm to storm, and the repair a car gets depends on who the shop can call.
The result is a market that runs on who you know: months of backlog after a storm, estimates nobody can verify, and shops squeezed on cost.
The product
The Ultri Robotics Cell.
One mobile robot takes a dented panel, door ding or hail-struck hood, from scan to sign-off without a technician on the tools. No tunnel, no overhead rail, no CAD model of the car. A deflectometry head on its mast maps the surface to tens of microns and measures each dent against the panel around it, a force-controlled arm works each dent from the front side, and the cell rescans until the panel passes.
The original paint never breaks: no filler, no respray, no color match. And because the cell measures everything it touches, every repair comes with the record to prove it.
How it works
One loop: scan, pull, verify.
The cell works a panel the way a technician does: measure, touch, measure again. It never guesses and it never gets tired.
Scan
A deflectometry head maps the panel and measures each dent against the undamaged surface around it.
Pull
A force-controlled arm makes one corrective pull. The model decides where to touch the panel and how hard.
Verify
Rescan the same spot. If the surface has not converged on target, pull again until it passes.
Learn
Every panel makes the system better. What one cell learns, every cell knows.
Safer, cheaper, and faster than crews traveling storm to storm. The cell runs day and night, and it improves with every panel it touches.
Year-round market
Built for collision repair. Every day.
- Damage
- Collision dents and door dings within PDR limits
- Panels
- Doors, fenders, quarters, hoods
- Paint
- Intact and preserved
- Cadence
- Every day, no season
- Operators
- Body shops, dealer reconditioning, fleets
Collision repair does not wait for weather. Every day, in every market, cars arrive at body shops and dealer reconditioning lanes with dents from parking lots, low-speed collisions, and trade-ins. Each one is fixed by hand, and each one is a claim with a clock on it.
The same cell that clears a hail queue works a collision dent with the same loop: scan, pull, verify. It repairs from the front side, so the panel stays on the car. No remove-and-install, no filler, no respray. A repairable panel stays off the replace list.
Every repair ships with a before-and-after scan that drops straight into the claim. Collision is the base load. Hail is the surge. One cell runs both.
- Damage
- Hail strikes, shallow dents
- Panels
- Hoods, roofs, decklids
- Paint
- Intact and preserved
- Volume
- Storm scale, thousands of repairs
- Operators
- Hail catastrophe teams and fleets
Storm season
Built for hail season.
One storm can dent every horizontal panel on ten thousand cars. Crews fly in, regional backlogs stretch for months, and insurers total cars that could have been saved.
Ultri Robotics cells deploy where the storm hits and work the queue around the clock. No travel, no fatigue, no triage. Panels in, passed surfaces out, at storm scale. When the storm clears, the same cells go back to collision work.
Contact
Talk to Ultri Robotics.
Ultri Robotics is a robotics company. The founders bring time inside CCC Intelligent Solutions, the claims and estimating platform the US collision industry runs on, and robotics research at UC Berkeley.
Body shops, dealers, and hail catastrophe teams
Tell us about your backlog: the dents in the queue, the panels headed for replacement, the storm-to-storm math. Pilot conversations are open.
REQUEST A DEMOPDR and force control specialists
If you are an elite PDR technician or you work on force control, we are recruiting the first hands this system learns from.
Our mission
Rebuild anything humans create.
Everything people build eventually gets damaged. Machines that can see the damage, know what the object is supposed to be, and restore it will change what it costs to keep the physical world running. We are starting with cars. We are not stopping there.