Cobalt Robotics

Cobalt Robotics, which markets its product as Cobalt AI, offers an AI-powered physical security monitoring platform built around what it calls AI Handlers: per-incident-type automations that ingest an event, reason across connected systems, decide on an action, and execute it. Handlers cover incident categories including door forced open, tailgating, gun detection, unauthorized entry, person down or fall, and trespassing or loitering. For a door-forced-open alarm, for example, the platform cross-references video, badge logs and device health to identify a root cause such as a faulty request-to-exit sensor, then clears the event or escalates it while creating a service ticket and sending notifications.

The platform is organized into modules: Monitor (real-time AI Handlers), Video Intelligence (detection of weapons, falls, trespassing, loitering and unattended objects on camera), Investigator (cross-site event search and filtering with linked video, thumbnails and audit trail), Metrics (clearance rates, response times, alarm rates, top offender doors and root cause distribution), and a no-code visual Workflow Builder for automated response chains. Cobalt positions the product as a layer over existing infrastructure rather than a replacement, and states that it can be deployed at the edge, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration, contrasting this with competitors offering a single deployment model.

Business model

Cobalt provides a software platform that layers over a customer's existing access control, video management, elevator, ticketing and communication systems, integrating with them rather than requiring an infrastructure overhaul.

Traction

The site states that 80% of physical access control system alarms require investigation but not escalation and that AI Handlers automatically investigate more than 80% of events, and cites a sample door-forced-open case auto-resolved in 12 seconds of total handling time. It reports a root cause breakdown of 51% device issues (request-to-exit sensors, door contacts, device faults) and 28% human error (valid badge after a door forced open, door held open).