Machines Become Cognitive

Deploy secure, safe AI systems that understand real-world operations, accelerate engineering workflows, and power smarter cognitive decisions.

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//About us

URCA is a Physical AI startup building cognitive systems that can perceive, understand, reason, and act in real-world environments. From cognitive drones to smart perception systems and agentic engineering platforms, URCA transforms advanced AI into practical technologies for mobility, infrastructure, and industrial operations.

//Three pillars of Physical AI

VLM

Vision Language Models

AI systems that perceive, understand, and reason through vision and language, benchmarked against SOTIF performance and ISO 26262 ASIL safety classifications.

perceptionSOTIFASIL-DOODO analysis

VLA

Vision Language Action

Models that link perception to certifiable action, with traceable, validated decisions for vehicles, robots, and industrial machines.

action policytraceabilityHARAV&V

VQA

Visual Question Answering

Auditable visual AI that explains environments, enabling regulators, operators, and safety engineers to verify behavior during certification reviews.

explainabilitycertificationaudit trailquery

VLM

Vision Language Models

AI systems that perceive, understand, and reason through vision and language, benchmarked against SOTIF performance and ISO 26262 ASIL safety classifications.

perceptionSOTIFASIL-DOODO analysis

VLA

Vision Language Action

Models that link perception to certifiable action, with traceable, validated decisions for vehicles, robots, and industrial machines.

action policytraceabilityHARAV&V

VQA

Visual Question Answering

Auditable visual AI that explains environments, enabling regulators, operators, and safety engineers to verify behavior during certification reviews.

explainabilitycertificationaudit trailquery

//System Architecture

Safety by Design

Define risks, intended use, constraints, and failure boundaries from the start

Validation & Red Teaming

Stress test models with edge cases, adversarial scenarios, and performance benchmarks.

Compliance & Traceability

Map evidence to requirements with clear documentation, audit trails, and approvals.

Secure Deployment & Monitoring

Deploy with guardrails, access controls, continuous monitoring, and incident response readiness.

//Our Products

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ARCHAgentic V-Cycle Platform

An agentic engineering platform built to accelerate the ASPICE V-cycle for automotive and mobility teams, compressing workflows from months into hours.

Workflow Acceleration: Speeds up ASPICE processes and V-cycle compliance seamlessly.
Automated Safety Analysis: Generates and structures critical HARA and TARA security workflows.
Requirements Engineering: Streamlines documentation, full traceability, and verification artifacts.
Engineer Elevation: Designed to elevate engineering productivity, not to replace human talent.

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ARCHPlatform

2/3

SQRCognitive Drone

An autonomous aerial intelligence layer that goes beyond remote-controlled flight to understand missions, perceive environments, plan actions, and execute real-world tasks with minimal human intervention.

Mission Understanding: Interprets natural language commands and converts them into clear drone objectives.
Visual Perception: Uses vision-based intelligence to understand terrain, objects, obstacles, and operational context.
Autonomous Planning: Builds mission paths, adapts to changing environments, and decides the next best action.
Physical-World Execution: Performs inspection, monitoring, navigation, and field operations through AI-assisted autonomy.

SQRDrone

3/3

CognitiveCamera

IRISCognitive Camera

A next-generation perception layer that goes beyond passive surveillance to convert visual data into actionable operational intelligence.

Behavioral Recognition: Understands and analyzes movement, flow, and human behavior in real time.
Contextual Understanding: Parses complex environment contexts rather than just counting data.
Anomaly Detection: Tracks security events and triggers immediate situational awareness.
Traffic & Facility Intelligence: Optimizes crowd insights for public spaces, infrastructure, and smart environments.

//Target Deployment Sectors

Automotive OEMs & Tier-1 Suppliers

ADAS and autonomous vehicle programs facing the ISO 26262 certification bottleneck. Buyers: Chief Safety Officer, VP Engineering, ADAS Lead. The 18-month certification cycle — ends here.

Industrial Robotics & Automation

Companies deploying VLA models in manufacturing and logistics where liability is real. CTOs and robotics engineering leads who need certifiable AI action policies for physical systems in live environments.

Government & Defense

Public and private organizations advancing national AI priorities and requiring sovereign, verifiable Physical AI capabilities for critical systems and infrastructure.

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