Rocket Platform

MIG/MAG, TIG, and Plasma. Arc-rated optics handle all common processes from low-current TIG at 80A to high-current MIG spray transfer at 350A+. The computer in the set merges the two exposures into one image in real time.

The camera captures two frames at different exposures, and the computer in the set merges them in real time. You see both the bright arc and the dark surroundings simultaneously — no detail lost in either. The processing runs in software, so it improves with updates.

Yes. Rocket Retina is power-source-agnostic. It works with Fronius, Lincoln, Miller, ESAB, Kemppi, OTC Daihen, or any other brand. No lock-in to any specific equipment manufacturer.

Yes. Every recording includes full WPS-style parameters (process, material, current, voltage, wire, gas, travel speed). This makes each recording a traceable quality record supporting ISO 3834, EN 1090, and EN 15085 documentation requirements.

The camera comes in two sets. The RocketWelder Set: Rocket Retina camera, Rocket Neuron AI computer, monitor and software. The vision-only set: Rocket Retina camera, an Intel-based mini PC and a monitor, for live preview and recording without AI. In both you choose the enclosure, direct or mirrored, and the protective glass is included. Installation and commissioning at your station are quoted in the offer.

Up to 100m with a CAT7 Ethernet cable. Single cable carries both video and power (PoE) — no separate power supply needed at the camera.

Tool-free replacement. Slide out the old window, slide in the new one. Spare windows are available as consumables — standard maintenance for any welding environment.

The camera takes two exposures per frame — a short one that captures the pool border without blowout, and a long one that captures the surroundings. Both are merged in real-time, so you see the full picture in one image. The processing runs in software, so it improves with updates.

Absolutely — that is what the vision-only set is for. We redesigned how a welding camera is built — no special cooling, no pumps, proper enclosure included out of the box. Plus you get all the digital capabilities for free: recording, viewing from other devices on the network, and lossless transmission. The entire signal path — camera to computer to monitor — is fully digital. No analog degradation, no signal loss.

Yes — Rocket Retina is built for continuous exposure to a MIG/MAG arc, not just for a short demo. IP65 on both Standard and Mirrored enclosures, a compact 35 × 35 × 122 mm body that fits torch-mounted, fixture-mounted, or robot-end-effector setups, and an interchangeable protective window that takes spatter hits as a consumable (tool-free swap). On cooling: traditional welding cameras try to capture the full arc-to-surroundings dynamic range from a single frame. To do that they rely on older, specialised silicon sensors with very high dynamic range — those sensors run hot and have to be liquid-cooled to stay within spec near the arc. Rocket Retina takes a different path: an industry-grade CMOS sensor captures two sequential exposures, and modified optics, integrated illumination, and software running on the computer in the set merge them into one HDR image. The heavy lifting is done off-camera, so the camera body stays thermally lean — no fans, no pumps, no cooling liquids. The practical payoff: fewer failure modes (no pump to fail, no coolant to leak or go stagnant), no coolant hoses to route into the cell, and maintenance reduces to swapping a protective window.

Usually not. Path adaptation handles the usual case: you teach the path by hand once, the camera memorises how it looks, and on every new part it finds the taught points and the program is recomputed. That absorbs the 2–5 mm scatter between parts of one series, on bigger parts. Real-time correction is an option for two cases: the part distorts under heat as the weld progresses, or the part moves during welding. The camera then corrects the torch 10 to 25 times a second. Both run on the Rocket Neuron in the RocketWelder Set; the vision-only set has no AI and does neither.

No. Welding is our first and deepest vertical. But the platform is general-purpose. Any workflow that involves a camera, a vision model, and industrial hardware (robot, PLC, or both) can run on Rocket Welder. Quality inspection, measurement, assembly verification — the same platform, same tools.

A compact edge computer with GPU that runs the Rocket Welder platform. Mounts on DIN rail at the machine. Industrial-grade, air-gapped capable. NVIDIA GPU available for high-performance vision inference at 25+ FPS. Camera input, vision processing, your program, robot and PLC control — all run on this one device.

ABB IRB series via EGM (250 Hz feedback) and Fairino cobots (direct TCP control). Both accessed through a unified IRobot interface — swap robot brands without rewriting your program. Universal Robots and KUKA support is planned.

No. You teach the cobot by hand, as you would any cobot, and you need to know your welding process. For the program logic you work with an assistant: Claude, connected through our MCP connector. It writes programs, edits them and generally helps. The programs are C# underneath, and you can read and change them. Operator training takes one day.

You teach the path by hand. On each new part the camera finds the taught points; with a laser distance sensor our SDK returns them directly in robot coordinates — no manual calibration math. The program is recomputed from those points: that is path adaptation. As an option, real-time correction runs the vision model and your program on every frame while the robot moves and pushes corrections continuously.

Yes — at runtime. Everything runs on the Rocket Neuron at the station: vision processing, recording, robot and PLC control, all on-premises, no cloud required. The only piece that needs an internet connection is the assistant: Claude works online. Once your program is deployed, the shop-floor stack runs fully offline. Updates can be pushed via USB or local network.

Claude is the assistant; we provide the MCP connector that links it to your station. Through it Claude lists, reads and writes the station's programs, and reads the robot's position and joints, the camera image, the connected devices and the PLC tags. You ask; it writes, edits and helps. It never runs the robot — that is always you, at the station.

One day. We train your operators at your station, as part of installation and commissioning.