Ren AI Lab — Maplewood, Missouri

Autonomous Systems
for Extreme Environments

We Do Not Fail The Mission

We design autonomous systems for the places where failure means loss - deep ocean, hazardous atmospheres, contested environments. Every product speaks, senses, logs, and survives.

3 Products Shipping
5 In Development
19+ Years Engineering
"If you can sketch it on a napkin, we can make it real."
That is not marketing. That is how every machine in the lab started. A sketch, a conversation, a problem that needed solving. We do not wait for permission, funding committees, or five rounds of review. We design the board, print the prototype, write the firmware, weld the hull, and put it in the water. If it works, we refine it. If it breaks, we learn why and rebuild it by morning.
We build real prototypes - not renders, not slide decks. Real boards with real components soldered to them. Real enclosures you can hold. Real vehicles that go in real water. When you work with us, you get hardware on a bench, not a PDF that says hardware is coming.
And that bench is open. We take external projects, big or small, in the space we know best: electronic devices, robotics, and drones. The work is full-stack under one roof - schematic and PCB, firmware, mechanical design, enclosures, and the software that ties it all together - carried from first concept through production. Every project runs on defined milestones with detailed updates and open communication at each stage, so you always know progress is being made and can watch your idea come to life. Bring us the napkin.
FS
Full-Stack Hardware
PCB, firmware, mechanical, and software - one lab carries your project from concept to production. No hand-offs, no gaps.
MS
Milestone-Driven
Defined checkpoints with detailed updates - photos, test data, working demos. You always know exactly where your build stands.
1:1
Any Scale
A single board spin or a complete product. Electronic devices, robotics, and drones - big or small, we scope to fit.

Tomorrow's machines are on the bench today. Yours could be next.

ATLAS  ·  TRITON  ·  PHOENIX  ·  SOPHIE  ·  ATHENA

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Let's Build Something

Veteran Owned

The lab is open for contract engineering - electronic devices, robotics, and drones, big or small. Full-stack development from concept through production, run on clear milestones with detailed updates at every stage. Research institutions, defense organizations, startups, ocean science programs: if you have a problem that needs working hardware, we should talk.

secondrobotics@gmail.com secondrobotics.com Renaissance AI Lab (Ren AI Lab)
7525 Sussex Avenue, 2nd Floor
Maplewood, MO 63143
DOD
Former Top Secret Clearance USAF Minuteman III Systems, 6 years active duty
HW
19+ Years Hardware Engineering Boeing, Medical Devices, Defense Systems
SBIR
SBIR/STTR Eligible Small business, US-owned, US-operated
LLC
Second Robotics LLC Registered Missouri LLC