Wilder Systems

Wilder Systems builds robots that help manufacture and maintain aircraft for both commercial and government use. The company’s Agile Manufacturing Robot (AMR) is an autonomous system with a light-duty drill unit and a programmable drill process that drills the complex holes required to build airplane wings. The AMR can also drill fuselage, defasten, strip paint and repaint, apply de-icing fluid, perform surface preparation and non-destructive inspection, and wash the aircraft. Wilder’s system can clean an entire plane in an hour, where traditional human labor requires 3-4 people and takes two days. The AMR’s features include a computer vision system, automatic work-piece docking, automated tool changing, and a state-of-the-art safety system that halts the robot if a person enters the designated safety area.

Wilder’s robotic solutions are available under a traditional capex model, as well as a robots-as-a-service (RaaS) option in which customers have access to both the AMR and its accompanying software without purchasing the AMR outright. Wilder’s software scans the aircraft and maps a 3D path as it works, executing quality checks on its own performance and serving up process data to management.