Robotic pitstops for self-driving cars
TL;DR: Autonomous vehicles still rely on centralized, human-operated depots for daily charging, cleaning and servicing. Aseon builds robotic pitstops that let AV fleets reset directly inside the city, reducing downtime, dead miles and operating cost.
❌ The problem
Autonomous driving is working. The operational layer around it is not.
Today, autonomous vehicles regularly leave high-demand zones up to 3 times per day just to charge, clean and get inspected.
Most fleets still rely on large, remote, human-operated centralized depots.
That means:
- 10–15 mile roundtrips just to reset vehicles
- vehicles out of operation for hours
- up to 44% of vehicle time spent driving empty
- as many as 1 in 3 vehicles unavailable during peak demand
- reset costs that can exceed $100 per cycle
For autonomous fleets, uptime is revenue. But today’s operating model still looks like traditional depot logistics.
✅ What we built
We believe autonomous vehicles need autonomous operations, always available and distributed across the centre of the city.
So we built the Aseon pod: a robotic pitstop station that bundles high-frequency depot workflows into a compact, rapidly deployable pod.
Aseon Pods allow fleets to:
- charge vehicles near demand
- automatically clean interiors & exteriors
- run inspection workflows between rides
- access a reset within max. 2 miles of a vehicle’s location
Compared to traditional depot operations, Aseon can:
- reduce reset cost by up to 50%
- reduce time out of service by up to 65%
- increase revenue per vehicle by $50k+ per year
Aseon Labs is building a new category of infrastructure for autonomous fleets: robotic pitstops deployed directly where vehicles operate.
🧩 Why us
We’re second-time founders, building together for the second time.
Our previous company, Pushme, became the world’s largest battery-swap network for shared e-scooters and e-bikes, across 5,000 locations in 40 cities before being acquired by TIER-Dott ($600M raised).
Before Aseon:
George Kalligeros led TIER’s 100-person hardware organization and deployed $300M+ in fleet hardware as VP Hardware; was a mechanical engineer at Tesla.
Dan Keene scaled TIER energy network to 5k locations. He later served as CBO at Superduper ($4B infra). Prior to that he led 20 markets at Deliveroo (DoorDash) and worked in M&A.
📣 Our Ask
We’re currently building our founding team across robotics, hardware and ML.
If you know exceptional engineers working on robotics, autonomy, computer vision, hardware systems or industrial automation, we’d love an introduction.
