Mirsee Robotics — Canadian humanoid robots built for industrial work

• 2017
  Founded
• Cambridge, ON
  Headquarters
• MH3
  Latest flagship (2025)
• Undisclosed
  Funding raised
• Canada
  Country
• Private
  Status

About Mirsee Robotics

Mirsee Robotics Inc. was co-founded in 2017 by Tarek Rahim (CEO) and Robert Ings in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The company was born from a personal motivation shared by both founders — helping their aging parents — and grew into a broader mission: to build general-purpose humanoid robots capable of taking on the repetitive, dangerous, and physically taxing jobs that people should not have to do. Rahim, who has spent nearly a decade designing humanoids from the ground up, describes Mirsee as one of two major humanoid robotics programs in Canada.

Since founding, Mirsee has iterated through three generations of humanoid robots and more than twelve major subsystems. Each generation refined the same core thesis: vertically integrate every meaningful subsystem — vision, actuators, hands, power, haptics, and control — so the platform can be tuned end-to-end for the demands of real industrial work. That approach is unusual in the humanoid space, where most competitors rely on off-the-shelf mechatronics for at least part of the stack. Mirsee designs its actuators, its Hadron Vision System, its dexterous hands, and its teleoperation software in-house at its Cambridge headquarters.

The company's current flagship is the MH3, unveiled as a pre-production platform in 2025. Eight MH3 prototypes have been built to date, and Mirsee has stated its intention to move to mass production in 2027, scaling to thousands of units over the following three years. Investors backing the company include Archangel Network of Funds and Redstick Ventures; cumulative funding is not publicly disclosed. Employee headcount is small — roughly seven to ten today, with a stated plan to reach approximately twenty by the end of the year — reflecting Mirsee's positioning as a lean, capital-efficient hardware startup rather than a mega-funded scale-up.

Mirsee competes in the same broader humanoid-robotics and general-purpose robot AI boom that includes Tesla Optimus, Figure AI, 1X, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, and Boston Dynamics — but with a deliberately different market wedge. Rather than target a general-purpose consumer-adjacent form factor, Mirsee is focused on heavy-duty industrial deployments (utilities, oil and gas, water treatment, manufacturing) where the combination of teleoperation, safety, and per-arm payload is more valuable than bipedal locomotion. That focus is reflected in every design choice on the MH3, from the wheeled base to the 30 kg per-arm payload.

Technology stack

Mirsee's platform is unusually vertically integrated for a startup of its size. Rather than assemble a humanoid from off-the-shelf actuators, hands, and vision modules, the company designs every major subsystem in-house: vision, actuators, hands and grippers, power electronics, teleoperation software, and haptic feedback. Rahim has publicly argued that this level of integration is what allows Mirsee to hit its combination of per-arm payload, runtime, and safety on the MH3 without ballooning cost.

Perception

The MH3 carries the Hadron Vision System, a stereo-camera perception stack built on NVIDIA Jetson-class edge processors. Vision is fused with force-torque sensing at the manipulators and haptic feedback at the teleoperator's gloves, so the remote operator can feel contact events and adjust grip force — a critical capability for the hazardous, contact-rich work that MH3 targets in utilities, oil and gas, and water-treatment sites.

Teleoperation, AI control, and ROS2

MH3 operates in two modes: full immersive teleoperation — a skilled operator wearing a VR headset and haptic gloves controls the robot from up to 1,500 km away — and AI-assisted or autonomous operation for repetitive tasks. The onboard software runs on ROS 2. Mirsee is progressively rolling out AI autonomy via software updates, letting the same physical robot become more capable over its deployed life without a hardware change. Connectivity options include satellite, cellular, and Wi-Fi, ensuring reliable remote operation from field environments.

Actuators, power, and compute

Mirsee's actuator strategy combines proprietary hydrostatic actuators — a patented approach that its investors describe as providing human-like dexterity and precision — with electric drives elsewhere in the body. The MH3 is engineered for approximately ten hours of continuous operation on a single charge and supports wireless charging, minimizing the operational overhead of keeping a fleet running. Compute is centered on NVIDIA-class edge processors for the vision and control stack.

Power delivery is a defining engineering constraint for a humanoid of this class. Each motor-driver stage must deliver hundreds of watts of instantaneous torque without thermally throttling, driving the use of wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN) in gate-drive and inverter stages, and requiring tightly matched precision passives on every current-sense and gate-drive channel. The onboard battery pack integrates cell balancing, thermal management, and multi-stage protection ICs. Reliability of these battery-management ICs, precision MLCC capacitors, and current-sense resistors is often the practical ceiling on how long a humanoid platform runs between charges and how safely it can operate around people.

The robotics supply chain — where Hybrid Electronics fits in

A modern humanoid robot is one of the most component-dense products ever built. A single Mirsee-class platform depends on thousands of individual electronic components: precision BLDC motor drivers, high-torque servo modules, IMUs and 6-DoF force-torque sensors, LiDAR and time-of-flight modules, GPU compute boards, battery-management ICs, wide-bandgap SiC/GaN power semiconductors, high-speed board-to-board connectors, precision resistors, and thousands of MLCC capacitors distributed across every power and signal rail — plus specialized parts for satellite/cellular connectivity and haptic-glove telemetry.

Building that kind of hardware puts enormous pressure on the electronic-components supply chain. Prototype pilots and low-volume production runs frequently hit allocation, EOL notices, and long lead times on the exact parts they need, and R&D and field-service teams routinely have to support older platforms that use semiconductors no longer in mainstream distribution. During the current humanoid robotics and general-purpose robot AI boom, this pressure is amplified: dozens of well-funded teams are chasing the same short list of high-torque BLDC drivers, precision IMUs, GPU compute modules, and automotive-grade power semiconductors, and franchise stock on many key parts is now measured in months of lead time rather than weeks.

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