Ascento AG · military or security robot
Ascento Guard
A two-wheeled, legged security robot that patrols outdoor sites autonomously with thermal and infrared cameras and docks itself to recharge. It grew out of an ETH Zurich student project (Ascento, around 2017-18) whose first version could jump.
- Price
- —robotics-as-a-service, hired by the hour; no list price
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 5.0 km/hFaster than 16%
- Battery
- 8 hRuns longer than 55%
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Why it matters
Ascento Guard is on the market today.
Real-world use
Patrolled outdoor warehouses, factories and pharma campuses; logged more than 3,000 km in 2023 and was tested by Securitas in Switzerland.
Maker
Ascento AGCompany · Zurich, SwitzerlandAbout $4.8M raised in total by late 2024, including a $4.3M pre-seed in 2023
How it stacks up
Against other military & security that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Ascento Guard is faster than 16% of the 31 other military & security that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Ascento Guard runs longer than 55% of the 11 other military & security that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, payload, joints, price.
Public attention
A hidden gem: a recent robot with full published specs that gets little attention so far.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheel-legs
- How it runs
- Supervised. It patrols set outdoor routes and recharges by itself, while a security operator watches its alerts and decides how to respond.
- Actuators & motors
- Two wheeled legs with fall recovery
- Sensors & vision
- Thermal, RGB and infrared cameras, spotlights, microphone, speaker and GPS; Guard 2.0 adds a higher-resolution thermal camera
- Battery & power
- Over 8 hours; autonomous charging
- AI & software
- Autonomous patrol with alarms passed to a remote operator; sold as a service
- Other details
- Top speed about 5 km/h
From the maker
Ascento Guard is the only machine from Ascento AG in the atlas.
Watch Ascento Guard
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedrobotics-as-a-service, hired by the hour; no list price
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Leased as a service; fleet size not published
- Where it is sold or used
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Customers and pilots
- Large outdoor warehouses, manufacturing sites and pharma campuses (unnamed)
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Ascento Guard 2.0 launched
Second generation adds brighter spotlights and better day and night cameras.
The Robot Report - Ascento Guard launches with $4.3M round
Swiss startup launched its two-wheeled patrol robot and a pre-seed round.
TNW - Swiss security robot on patrol
Euronews reported Ascento robots patrolling Swiss sites for six months.
Euronews
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Ascento GuardAscento AG |  K5 (5th generation, K5v5)KnightscopeSame job: security patrol · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2023-09-12 | 2023-12-13 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 164 cm |
| Weight | — | 190.5 kg |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | 5 km/h | 4.8 km/h |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | 8 h | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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