About
Our mission is to reduce human exposure to dangerous environments.
Drover Labs develops hybrid robots, onboard perception, and spatial reconstruction for confined industrial environments. We’re working toward a future where the people responsible for critical infrastructure can understand its condition from outside the asset.
If that resonates with you, we're hiring.
Explore careers →Where it started
From the first flight.
Our first iteration focused on moving between ground and air. That work grew into the platform we’re building today: a tracked robot built to fly, LiDAR-inertial localization, and a reconstruction pipeline that brings physical spaces back as spatial data.
An early milestone / Batch 20
From prototype
to company.
We joined Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 20, building a company around a clear mission: give infrastructure teams a better way to see, measure, and understand the places people shouldn’t have to enter.
See Drover in Batch 20
The team
Founded by engineers who met at NASA.
We built robots for space exploration. Now we’re bringing that experience to Earth’s harshest environments.
PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, leading the SpaceCAL team’s volumetric 3D printing research, demonstrated on a 2024 suborbital flight. His background spans NASA’s Pathways program and embedded hardware–software integration, which he now applies to Drover’s robots.
Ryan Chiang
R&D — Robotics
MS Eng, UC Berkeley. Avionics, PCB design, and hardware bring-up and test on the Drover platform.