Path Robotics

Path Robotics is an AI and robotics company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The company develops autonomous robotic welding systems for industrial manufacturing, with a focus on sectors including defence shipyards, data centre construction, utility infrastructure, and heavy industry. It operates from a 186,000-square-foot facility and employs more than 150 engineers, researchers, and operators.

The company's core technology is Obsidian™, a foundational AI model trained on tens of millions of welded inches. Obsidian™ powers Path's Intelligent Welding Cells - autonomous systems that use machine vision and real-time adaptive control to see, interpret, and respond to welding conditions without custom fixtures or dedicated robot programmers. The Intelligent Welding Cells achieve a reported first-pass yield of 97% or higher.

Path Robotics was co-founded by brothers Andy and Alex Lonsberry - who were pursuing PhDs in AI-related fields at Case Western Reserve University at the time - alongside their father Ken and Matt Klein. The founding team combined academic AI research with hands-on welding experience, a combination that shapes the company's technical orientation. The firm positions its work around addressing a shortage of skilled welders in American manufacturing.

The technical domains represented at Path span artificial intelligence, physical AI, machine vision, real-time adaptive control, robotics, and industrial automation. The workforce is composed predominantly of engineers and researchers working across both AI model development and physical systems integration.