Since 2007, C2-I Engineering has put robotic systems into the active surf zone, the contaminated estuary, and the mined shoreline, the boundary where most platforms stop. Fielded by the U.S. Marine Corps, the UK Ministry of Defence, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Since June 2007, a team of fewer than ten engineers in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts has designed, built, and fielded robotic systems for the United States Marine Corps, the UK Ministry of Defence, the Army Corps of Engineers, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The mission from day one: put the machine in the hazardous position so the soldier does not have to be. Every system delivered answers that requirement directly.
The name C-2 comes from the two-person canoe class, a craft that demands teamwork and direct communication to navigate difficult water. That is still how we operate. C2-I does not adapt commercial hardware for defense applications. Every platform begins with the operational requirement, is built from the ground up, taken to the field at speed, and refined under real-world conditions. Our platforms go where the mission requires and where crewed systems cannot safely follow.
C2-I was founded to solve the problem every conventional platform failed to answer. The battlefield's most hazardous terrain runs at the water's edge.
Breaking surf destroys standard equipment and endangers operators. Tidal energy, shifting sand, and unpredictable wave sets exceed the operational envelope of wheeled or standard tracked systems. C2-I platforms were built specifically for this environment.
UXO-laden and chemically contaminated waterways require persistent survey and neutralization at depths and conditions that place divers at unacceptable risk. Remote, man-in-the-loop operation from a safe position is the only acceptable solution.
Beach and shallow-water mine clearance demands a platform that crosses the wet-dry boundary under operational load, carries modular payloads, and keeps personnel ashore. No standard military robot covered this ground before C2-I built one that could.
Littoral robotics. Counter-UAS systems. Energetics. Creative visualization. Four disciplines, one tight team.
Robotic platforms engineered for the mine-threatened shoreline, the contaminated estuary, and the active surf zone. Designed from operational requirement to fielded delivery, for programs where standard hardware cannot meet the threat.
Learn moreDeliveries to the Marine Corps, UK Ministry of Defence, and Army Corps of Engineers. SBIR and STTR programs across multiple agencies. The record, documented.
Learn moreActive contracts and funded development. The work that follows from nearly two decades of fielded results.
Learn moreConcept visualization, illustration, animation, and simulation supporting defense programs since 2006.
Learn moreWhen the mission goes into terrain too hazardous for a soldier, C2-I sends the machine. That is the doctrine. Every system we have ever built is designed around that one requirement.
C2-I platforms are designed to absorb the risk the soldier cannot. Mine-threatened shorelines. Contaminated water. Active surf zones during an assault. The operator works from a safe position. The platform goes into the area that would otherwise require a soldier to enter.
The same hull that conducted subsurface mine warfare support for the Marine Corps has carried acoustic sensors, water sampling equipment, and RTK positioning systems for scientific programs. An open-deck architecture accepts customer-provided payloads without hull modification. The platform does not define the limits of the mission.
C2-I platforms operate from open coastal water through the active surf zone and onto dry land in a single mission profile, without reconfiguration. This transition crosses the terrain boundary where most robotic systems stop. No comparable system has matched this environmental range on a single hull.
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