LightCortex is the safety-critical flight brain for autonomous machines — delivering confident navigation where GPS can't reach, and a provably-safe response the moment perception becomes unreliable.
Modern drones depend on GPS to know where they are. When the signal is denied, degraded, or spoofed, they drift, get lost, and crash — without warning. This is the single largest barrier to scaling autonomous flight beyond visual line of sight.
Warehouses, factories, mines, tunnels — zero GPS coverage.
Multipath and signal loss between dense structures.
Intentional jamming and GPS spoofing.
Smoke, dust, collapse — where autonomy matters most.
LightCortex runs on the drone's existing compute and delivers three tightly-coupled capabilities that turn probabilistic autonomy into a certifiable safety case.
Fuses onboard vision and inertial sensing into a robust position estimate — with no dependence on GPS.
Continuously estimates how much to trust its own perception — knowing it is becoming unreliable before error blows up.
When confidence drops, a mathematical safety filter guarantees a safe response instead of flying blind.
“Standard autonomy gets lost and hits the wall. LightCortex knows it's losing confidence — and recovers safely.”
Everyone is racing to make the autonomy policy smarter. Almost no one is building the provable-safety and calibrated-trust layer beneath it. That's our position.
Formal guarantees on geofence, obstacle, velocity and altitude — that survive perception failure.
Calibrated confidence on every estimate, not just a raw pose. Trust becomes measurable.
Software-first, validated on existing drone SoCs. No new hardware to deploy.
