A London-based spin-out from Imperial College that makes software and cameras to help vehicles in factories and warehouses understand where they are and what is around them.
Slamcore makes what it calls spatial intelligence software. In plain terms, it lets a machine work out where it is and what is around it using cameras, without GPS, beacons or tags fitted around a building. The name comes from SLAM, short for simultaneous localisation and mapping, the method robots use to build a map while working out their own position on it. Its company page says its Visual AI pairs software with stereo cameras to track vehicles, improve driver awareness and give operators insight into how a site runs. Its Aware product, launched in 2024, tracks manual vehicles such as forklifts. An add-on called Alert, announced in 2025, warns drivers about pedestrians nearby. The company says its products run in more than 30 factories and warehouses in Europe and North America.
The company says its mission is to make manual operations visible, so that vehicles understand where they are and what is around them, which improves safety and efficiency and builds data for smarter facilities and what it calls physical AI. It was founded in 2016 at Imperial College London by Professor Andrew Davison, Dr Stefan Leutenegger, Dr Jacek Zienkiewicz and Owen Nicholson, and became a separate company in 2017.
Slamcore describes itself as London-based. A Built In London listing gives its address as Borough High Street in south London and lists 38 employees, which is an undated figure from a third party. One Beauhurst list places the company in Rutland, so sources disagree about the exact location, and we have not been able to settle this from the company's own pages. It says it is a founding vendor of the RTLS Alliance and belongs to industry bodies including MHI and A3, and it has Nvidia preferred partner status, which suggests much of its work is with customers abroad as well as in the UK.
On culture, the Built In listing says the company is built on a team of academics, roboticists, engineers and developers, and that is as much as we could find. We did not find a values page or a published description of day-to-day working life. A company that began in a university lab is likely to value people who like research and careful measurement, but that is our reading and not something the company states.
The roles at a company like this include computer vision and machine learning engineers, embedded software engineers who make the code run on small devices, robotics and test engineers who try the system on real vehicles, product managers, and people who work with warehouse and factory customers. Mathematics, computer science, physics and engineering are the usual routes in. The company's own website is the best place to see what is open now.
Website: www.slamcore.com
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