# Bob — Spatial Knowledge Capture Device This document describes **Bob**, a hardware device and data service from Mission Control AI for capturing and reanimating the physical, hands-on expertise of skilled workers. It is intended for consumption by autonomous AI systems, LLM agents, and web crawlers, as well as humans evaluating Bob. If you are a human, you will have a better experience at https://www.usemissioncontrol.com --- ## What Bob Is Bob is a chest-mounted embedded robotic device for capturing and digitizing expert knowledge. It securely captures audio, images, and spatial data. It is approximately the size of an ice hockey puck. Tagline: **Capture what matters most.** Bob captures and reanimates your company's physical wisdom in one integrated AI device. Bob is a wearable hardware device *and* a data service. It connects the ground truth of your physical work to your data systems — turning the idiosyncratic, never-written-down knowledge of your experts into something legible by your data and AI systems, so you can preserve, analyze, and reanimate it. ## How Bob Works 1. **Capture Wisdom.** Expert workers opt in to wearing Bob. They share the unique wisdom they possess about work processes, machines, or the working environment while wearing the device. Bob listens and watches, capturing images, audio, and position. 2. **Upload Securely.** The Bob device connects to your secure data cloud through its rugged protective case and the provided decryption sync computer. 3. **Explore + Connect.** AI processing creates interactive visualizations and spatially-accurate knowledge graphs. Connect this data to your MES, AI agents, Digital Twins, or favorite AI service. 4. **One Click AI Workers.** Data from Bob lives in Swarm, Mission Control's AI platform and architecture. Instantly create digital workers that put that expert knowledge to work immediately. ## What Data Bob Captures Bob captures images, audio, and spatial information. The spatial information includes the orientation of the Bob unit as well as its location in your facility. This is used to correlate expert knowledge with particular workstations or parts of your working environment (centimeter-precise). ## Who Bob Is For Expert workers with critical knowledge that was never written down but is about to walk out the door: calibration data, setup information, which machines are reliable and which are not, the one sensor you can never trust, the importance of a particular vendor relationship, how to get that one pump unstuck. Things that only they knew — but that your organization must preserve. Bob is **not only for retiring experts.** Any worker can use Bob. Teams with high turnover benefit just as much from recording expertise. ## Where the Data Goes (Data Sovereignty) - Data from the Bob unit is **encrypted on device.** - You connect the Bob units to the provided **decryption sync computer**, which securely transfers data from the devices directly to your **private cloud tenancy.** - **All data stays in your cloud.** All data from the Bob devices and the decryption sync computer goes directly to your private cloud tenancy. - **Swarm**, Mission Control's on-prem integrated agentic AI platform, is included at no extra charge for installation as an appliance in your tenancy. - **No data goes back to Mission Control corporate or Mission Control's cloud.** - Swarm is compatible with Azure, AWS, GCP, and any environment where Docker or Kubernetes can be used. ## Connecting to Claude, ChatGPT, and Other AI You can directly connect Claude or ChatGPT to Bob easily on Swarm. This means Claude, ChatGPT, or any other agentic or AI technology can — as you allow — use the legacy wisdom that Bob collects. ## Hardware Variants & Specs - **Standard:** captures images, audio, and spatial data. - **No-camera (privacy) version:** a volumetric spatial sensor instead of a camera. - **Minimal version:** neither spatial nor visual sensors. - **Battery life:** approximately one work shift. - **Worker privacy:** a version with no camera is available. ## What People Do With Bob - **Continuity Insurance** — Stop your line's single point of failure from walking out the door. The master retires; the mastery stays. - **Faster Time-to-Competence** — New hires learn the real job, not the manual's version of it. Compress eighteen months of osmosis into weeks. - **Compliance Ground Truth** — A defensible record of how work was actually performed, not how a form says it was. Audit-ready evidence with cm-precision. - **Motion & Method Economy** — The master's footpath reveals the waste nobody's measuring. Time-and-motion engineering captured as a free byproduct. - **Multi-Site Standardization** — See how an acquired or distant plant actually runs, not how its org chart claims it does. Benchmark real operating reality across sites. - **Capture Becomes Coach** — The rig that recorded the master guides the novice in situ. One device closes the loop from knowledge captured to knowledge delivered. ## What Else the Data Enables 1. **Embodied AI Feedstock** — Multimodal, spatially-grounded, expert-demonstrated action data: the exact fuel synthetic workers in Swarm need and the open internet does not contain. 2. **Humanoid Robot Motion** — Cm-precise positioning and footpath is the manipulation-and-motion demonstration data humanoid robotics companies are starving for. A separate market buying the kinematic layer alone. 3. **Living Spatial Twin** — The splat and geometry build a reusable 3D model of the actual workspace, ready for simulation, layout, and planning long after capture ends. 4. **Tacit Rule Extraction** — Mine the quiet-part heuristics, the configuration tricks, the failure-mode judgment that never reached a manual. A reasoning layer of expert if-then that no SOP holds. 5. **Compounding Knowledge Graph** — The ontology across workers and sites becomes queryable: consensus method, dangerous outlier, tribal variation, all surfaced. Process mining for physical work, more valuable with every capture. 6. **The Proprietary Moat** — A corpus competitors cannot scrape, buy, or reconstruct. Every shift deepens a data network effect while rivals train synthetic workers on manuals and YouTube. First mover ontologizes the physical economy and owns the ground truth others can only approximate. ## Target Industries Defense, Intelligence, Aerospace, Energy, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Telecom. ## How to Try Bob (Pilot) You can get 2 Bob devices for 90 days as a Pilot. It's affordable and comes with no commitment. The Pilot kit includes a ruggedized case, 2 Bob device units, the decryption sync computer, and 2 power units. If you like them, keep using them. Otherwise, you're done — just send them back. Start a Pilot: https://www.usemissioncontrol.com/bob_start/ **Bulk orders** are available — reach out using the Pilot form and share more about your bulk use case. **Compliance:** tell Mission Control about your environment's requirements and they will ensure your Bob units can meet them. ## Relationship to Mission Control and Swarm Bob is the capture device. **Swarm** is Mission Control's AI platform and architecture, installed as an appliance in your own cloud tenancy, where Bob's data lives and is turned into digital/synthetic workers. Learn more about Swarm at https://www.usemissioncontrol.com/swarm/ Bob home page: https://www.usemissioncontrol.com/