AIBT Is Putting Robots And Drones To Work In A $42.41 Billion Market
The AI boom has moved from chatbots into machines that do physical work, from the delivery robots rolling through restaurants to the million drones the Pentagon is working toward. Each of those machines needs a company on the ground to place it, run it, and keep it charged, and AIBotics (OTCID: $AIBT) is building its business around doing that work with robots, drones, and mapping. All three came together in Jamaica when AIBT closed its acquisition of the operating assets of NovaCore Labs, the Google (NASDAQ: $GOOGL; $GOOG) Partner that launched the island's first Street View car, taking over its fleet and customer contracts along with bids already in front of the government. Keeping that fleet charged is the next piece, and AIBT is buying Empulser, a U.S. defense company developing wireless charging for drones.
Those bids land with agencies rebuilding from $8.8 billion in Hurricane Melissa damage, and they know NovaCore's work, from the truck simulator it built for the Jamaica Fire Brigade to its Street View mapping of Denham Town for the Jamaica Constabulary Force. NovaCore brings Google Cloud and geospatial expertise as a certified Google Partner, and the Street View imagery it captured draws about a million views a week by AIBT's count. Its Street-To-Door service sells local businesses and Airbnbs a year on Google Maps and Street View starting at $100. That mapping work feeds road surveys and asset management, two core uses in a mobile mapping market sized at $65.24 billion in 2026, and AIBT is bidding for Jamaica's share with a Google Partner whose tools the island's police and fire services use.
Outside government, NovaCore's robots are in a pilot at one of Jamaica's largest supermarket operators and in cleaning trials across two major hotel chains. Robots like these are AIBT's core business, distributed through KEENON, one of the world's largest service robot makers, into a service robotics market worth $31.11 billion in 2026. AIBT also has a robot of its own, the PHILL massage robot, which 3DX Industries (OTCID: $DDDX) took into pilot production in the spring against roughly 650 crowdfunding presales. The newest step has AIBT sourcing humanoid robots for a food manufacturer's production lines that its Israeli partner Ultrobotix is evaluating, carrying machines that started in dining rooms and hotel hallways onto the lines where food gets made.
NovaCore's six drones take the work outdoors, with its Skylight line using tethered drones to light disaster zones and night roadwork. Untethered drones are limited by their batteries, and AIBT signed a definitive agreement to acquire Empulser. Empulser is developing wireless power, autonomous charging hangars, landing pads, and SwarmOS software that routes power across a fleet, including other makers' drones. The Pentagon is standing up a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said about $50 billion in reconciliation funding will go to autonomous and robotic systems. A million drones means a million batteries running down in the field, and AIBT is buying the company built to recharge them there.
That deal pushes AIBT deeper into drone services, a market worth $42.41 billion in 2026, while larger companies have paid heavily for the mapping and robot businesses it holds. TIC Solutions (NYSE: $TIC), the inspection company then named Acuren, paid about $1.7 billion for NV5 and made its mapping business a segment of its own, while AIBT, with a market cap of under $2 million, owns the operator doing that mapping work in Jamaica. LG Electronics paid $60 million for 21% of Bear Robotics, whose delivery robots do the same hospitality work as the KEENON machines AIBT places, then moved to take control. TIC paid up for mapping and LG for hospitality robots, and AIBT has both while it adds drone power on top.
Patrick Tsang, who founded Empulser and takes over as AIBT's CEO when the deal closes, was an early investor and strategic advisor to Pulse Evolution, which became part of FaceBank Group before FaceBank acquired fuboTV in 2020 and took its name. fuboTV then listed on the New York Stock Exchange at about $1.4 billion, and by late 2020 the early investment Tsang led was worth roughly 300 times what it cost. NovaCore co-founder Gregory Moore runs the business as President of AIBT's operating subsidiary, having grown it from a gaming venture into a Google Partner, and now has AIBT's backing to take it across a Caribbean economy the company pegs at about $420 billion.
AIBT heads into 2027 owning the hard part of the AI machine business, a Jamaican operation with robots in hotels and supermarkets, drones in its fleet, and mapping work for government agencies, and the Empulser deal that adds drone charging is set to close by early January. That closing puts Tsang in the CEO chair as the Pentagon's Project Agincourt starts pulling private companies into its drone programs, and he has said he means to build "a significant U.S. defense and dual-use technology company" on AIBT. Tsang's last early bet ended up on the New York Stock Exchange, and this time he starts with a working fleet in Jamaica and a Google Partner already bidding on the island's government work.
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