SP1/Stealth project

SP1 is currently in a stealth-stage.

Autonomous Cardiovascular 5mm Robots

AI-powered, non-magnetic, untethered, micro-robots for vascular diagnostics, therapy, and minimally invasive procedures.

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Despite Significant Efforts, Today's Cardiovascular Care Faces Critical Challenges.

Cardiovascular Disease Remains the #1Killer.

Every 33 seconds, someone in the U.S. dies from it.

It claims over 702,000 lives each year - more than all cancers combined.

About

Introducing SP1

The world’s first wire-free, non-magnetic intravascular robot.

Unlike catheters or tethered systems, our platform is:

Reaches vascular regions traditional tools cannot access.
Enables next-generation diagnostics and therapy with wire-free, AI-guided precision.

Each robot is engineered from fully biocompatible, non-magnetic materials, measuring just 1mm in diameter and 5mm in length.

Controlled by an external infrared beacon system, with fail-safe positioning in case of signal loss.

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How it Works

ARTIFICIAL MICRO-MUSCLES

SP1 is powered by biomimetic artificial micro-muscles, enabling precise locomotion and active tasks without external mechanical components or magnetic fields.

Spike’s micro-robots operate in four seamless stages:

INSERTION

Minimally invasive insertion and retrieval via a single standard catheter with a capture tool.

NAVIGATION

Autonomous movement using biomimetic propulsion. SP1 gently grips vessel walls to steer and adapt in real time.

PROCEDURE

Sensors and cameras enable AI to detect abnormalities and guide targeted drug delivery, implants, or microsurgery.

AI MONITORING

An external Infrared beacon powers and controls SP1. Real-time data enables navigation and digital twin creation. Anchors safely on signal loss.

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

Where SP1 Makes a Difference

SP1 was built for the hardest-to-reach places in cardiovascular care, where precision, early access, and minimal invasiveness make the difference between risk and recovery.

Pacemaker Deployment

Robotic delivery of fully wireless, bioresorbable pacemakers invented by NWU

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Spike Dynamics Unique Design and IP

Built on a Proven Foundation:

Excellent technology review from NASA.
“Best Hardware Startup” in SF 2023
Recognition/acceptance by Autodesk Innovation Center.
Solid IP portfolio: 3 patents granted, 10 pending
Strategic partnership with Northwestern University.
Working prototype.

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Our Mission

To build AI-powered cardiovascular micro-robots that can navigate, diagnose, treat, and deliver therapy from within safely, precisely, and earlier than ever before.

We aim to give people longer, healthier lives by shifting medicine from reactive crisis response to proactive, personalized intervention.

We believe the future of heart care should be gentle, intelligent, and invisible, felt only in how much better life becomes.

Our Vision

We envision a future where cardiovascular disease is treated before it becomes life-threatening.

Where surgeries are replaced with seamless, in-body interventions.

Where lives are extended not by chance, but by precise, proactive robotics.

Together with leading U.S. universities, we are pursuing clinical validation and joint grants to bring SP1 to hospitals and patients.

From Space to the Heart

Our actuators were designed to withstand the harshest environments, radiation, vacuum, dust, and extreme temperature swings to power robotic systems for missions to the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond.

Our concept was independently validated in a feasibility report by NASA.

Recognized for its technical promise, Spike Dynamics was selected by Autodesk and is now based in downtown San Francisco, working out of Autodesk’s global headquarters with access to advanced prototyping and manufacturing equipment.

But everything changed when we discovered how to shrink these actuators down to just a fraction of a millimeter.

This breakthrough in motor miniaturization opened the door to a new frontier: ultra-compact, autonomous micro-robots capable of withstanding blood flow and navigating deep inside veins and arteries without damaging them.

That’s when SP1 (robot's name) was born.