The Team Behind Ayther
Mission
Make every infrastructure asset fully visible - by going where humans shouldn't have to.
Why We Built Ayther
America's infrastructure is aging faster than we can inspect it. 617,000 bridges, millions of miles of pipeline, countless culverts - and the people responsible for maintaining them are stretched thin, working with incomplete data.
We founded Ayther because we saw a gap: inspection technology existed for individual domains, but no one was connecting the dots. A bridge isn't just its deck surface. It's the submerged piers, the scour patterns, the buried utilities running through it. Complete inspection requires complete coverage.
Our backgrounds span robotics, defense systems, factory automation, and aerospace engineering. We've built autonomous systems for the most demanding environments, from factory floors to asteroid mining missions. Now we're applying that expertise to the infrastructure problem here on Earth, not with incremental improvements, but with a fundamentally different approach.

Grant Zahorsky
CEO & CTO
Canon USA (Factory Automation)
Adinkra (AI/Robotics, DoD)
simplySOLV (VP Strategy)

Cory Brolliar
Co-Founder, Lead Hardware Engineer
Lockheed Martin
Honeybee Robotics
Karman+