R&D Log

Every project here carries an SKW-RD number while it's research. Finished builds get a full write-up. Work that's headed for launch shows up as a designation and a status, nothing more, until it ships.

Published builds

Held until launch

SM-1522-R1In development

GÆFA

The old Norse didn't think of luck as chance. Gæfa was something a person carried, earned and kept and handed down the way a good blade is, and you could feel whether someone had it. Every SKALDWORKS build that moves will carry this one.

Something with a heart.

Details held until launch

SKW-RD-008Research

HRAFNAR

Odin kept two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, thought and memory. Every dawn they flew out over the whole world, and every night they came home and told him everything they'd seen. I wanted a flock that leaves, looks, and reports back. HRAFNAR is that flock, built small.

SKALD Flight · HRAFN

A small flock that flies together.

Details held until launch

SKW-RD-010Layout complete

SKUGGSJÁ

Seven hundred years ago a Norse father wrote Konungs skuggsjá, the King's Mirror, for his son. It was a book meant to show the world exactly as it is, the sea and the ice and the far lands, with nothing flattered. A mirror that tells the truth. This one tells it in depth, at the speed of light.

SKALD Sense · Ranging

A new way for our machines to see the room in three dimensions.

Details held until launch

SKW-RD-012In development

HILDIGRÍSS

Freyja rode to war on a boar named Hildisvíni, battle-swine, and Freyr's boar Gullinbursti lit the dark with golden bristles. In the old stories boars were never pets. They were war-mounts. Our ground vehicles are GÖLTR, the boar. The first one isn't full grown yet, so it's HILDIGRÍSS, the battle-piglet. Hildisvíni's name is waiting for the day it is.

SKALD Ground · GÖLTR

The first GÖLTR. Built to carry more than itself.

Details held until launch