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Coretronic Intelligent Robotics (CIRC)

Taiwanese subsidiary of the Coretronic optics group and a member of Taiwan's military 'drone national team,' building AI reconnaissance and surveillance UAVs on a deliberately non-Chinese supply chain.

FILE · coretronic-intelligent-robotics-circOpen-source file · BattlePolicy ProStatus Operating Coretronic subsidiary in mass production; selected Dec 2022 to Taiwan's military 'drone national team' (Miniature UAV and Surveillance UAV categories) under the MOEA/MND indigenous-UAV program. ISR/reconnaissance focus, not loitering munitions.Unverified
Coretronic Intelligent Robotics (CIRC)
Uncrewed Systems (Air)Combat-fieldedTWOperating Coretronic subsidiary in mass production; selected Dec 2022 to Taiwan's military 'drone national team' (Miniature UAV and Surveillance UAV categories) under the MOEA/MND indigenous-UAV program. ISR/reconnaissance focus, not loitering munitions.
Taiwanese subsidiary of the Coretronic optics group and a member of Taiwan's military 'drone national team,' building AI reconnaissance and surveillance UAVs on a deliberately non-Chinese supply chain.
Founded
2017registry; LinkedIn 2015, website ©2018
HQ
Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwanassembly at Zhunan, Miaoli
Headcount
~100 drone team; LinkedIn 51-200verify
Total raised
None disclosed — wholly owned Coretronic subsidiary
Valuation
N/Arolls into parent Coretronic, TWSE: 5371
Stage
Operating subsidiary; mass production; drone-national-team member

Background

Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corporation (CIRC) is the drone and robotics arm of Coretronic Corporation (TWSE: 5371), the Hsinchu group that is the world's largest contract manufacturer of projectors and display backlight modules. Coretronic pivoted toward AI, big data and cloud computing around 2015-16 and channeled its robotics ambitions into CIRC, which Taiwan's corporate registry lists as founded in 2017 (LinkedIn cites 2015; the website carries a 2018 copyright — the exact date is muddy). Headquartered at Hsinchu Science Park with a test-flight and assembly site at Zhunan, Miaoli, plus satellite offices in the UK (Hemel Hempstead) and Tokyo, CIRC is led by president Jeffrey Hsieh; parent-group president Andy Sin sets the wider drone strategy.

From the outset CIRC chased the roughly 5% of the drone market that is fully autonomous — 'drone-in-a-box' systems that patrol fixed routes, run AI image recognition and push data to the cloud — rather than the manually piloted mass market DJI dominates. It leverages Coretronic's optical, mechanical, thermal and electronic engineering to build its own gimbal cameras, flight-control and battery-management systems, and ground-control software. That vertical integration made CIRC a standout entrant when Taipei stood up its indigenous military-drone program.

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