# Roam > Roam builds autonomous vehicles that service machines where they work, starting with refueling U.S. military aircraft. Roam is an autonomous vehicle and aircraft company. Its autonomous carrier brings the resource, the Roam Universal Module (RUM) holds the mission and a robotic arm makes the connection to the machine, with people in command. The U.S. Department of War is Roam's current and only customer. Machines should service machines, and physical infrastructure should be callable by machines. Aircraft, trucks and robots now operate on their own, while the fuel, power, cargo, fluids and parts they depend on still arrive by hand. Roam is building one system to service every autonomous machine, whoever built it, and it starts on the military flight line. Refueling a military aircraft takes a crew of four, dragging heavy hose beside it in 115°F heat. Deployed crews do it in danger zones. Roam brings the fuel and makes the connection, people stay in command, away from the hose, and Roam is built so the aircraft is back in the air in minutes. Roam is being built to become a company worth more than $100 billion. The full reference (https://roamlabs.ai/onward/llms-full.txt) gives every market figure below with its source, date and link, read on September 30, 2026, plus a status table of what exists and what is direction. Hardware figures are design figures. Roam publishes no test results, pricing or contract details. Apart from the U.S. Department of War, no organization named here is a Roam customer or partner. The case in brief: - The buyer has named the problem: contested logistics has been one of the Department of War's six critical technology areas since November 17, 2025 (Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael), restated to the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 22, 2026; the FY2027 budget lists "autonomous delivery" among that area's priorities and funds the delivery of fuel and power to Joint forces in the Indo-Pacific. - Money is already in law: Public Law 119-21 (July 4, 2025) appropriated $750 million for innovative military logistics and energy capability (section 20005(a)(14)) and $450 million for Indo-Pacific Command airfields (section 20009(8)). - Stated demand is larger: the FY2027 mandatory request sets out $13.53 billion for a commercially integrated logistics network to sustain autonomous operations, with thousands of modular container platforms. It sits inside the $53.6 billion Drone Dominance request, depends on reconciliation and is not enacted; the House Reconciliation 3.0 resolution of July 2026 allocated $60 billion for defense. - The machines are multiplying: at least 500 autonomous aircraft in U.S. Air Force service by 2032 and tens of thousands of Massed Modular Aircraft by 2030 (Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink, September 14, 2026); 1,000 autonomous haul trucks commissioned by Komatsu (April 21, 2026). - The last meter runs on people and is dangerous: hot refueling carries fire risk from static, sparks, hot engines and human error (Air Force Materiel Command, March 23, 2026), and dispersed operations rely on airmen cross-trained to refuel aircraft (Joint Air Power Competence Centre). - The spending around the job is large: DLA Energy delivered $9.9 billion of fuel in fiscal year 2025, $5.5 billion of it to the U.S. Air Force (DLA Fiscal 2025 Annual Report); airlines expect to spend $350 billion on fuel in 2026 (IATA). These are spending pools, not Roam revenue. - One system: one carrier, one module exterior and one arm carry thirty mission families; the module is one interface for mechanical connection, power, data, identity and safety. - Built to compound: footprint and corners match standards the force already uses; what accrues to Roam is a service record for every service, service points designed into machines from any builder (direction) and the approvals automated fuel transfer must earn. - The path runs outward: U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy configurations now; airlines and general aviation next; an aircraft that refuels other defense aircraft in flight as the next system; autonomous moon operations as the long range vision. - The arithmetic: at the revenue multiple the private market paid for Anduril in May 2026 (about 28 times), $100 billion corresponds to about $3.6 billion of annual revenue, comparable to the EUR 3.9 billion one ground handler, Swissport, earned in 2025 servicing aircraft by hand. - The founder has built at scale: Arvin Bhangu previously trained the first uncensored large language model, built from scratch, and scaled it to 1.2 million users in 30 hours. Key facts: - Company: Roam. Legal name: Roam, Inc. Website: https://roamlabs.ai/. Based in San Francisco, California. - Name: Roam (roamlabs.ai) is unrelated to Roam Robotics (exoskeletons), Roam Research (note-taking software), the ROAM UAS Operations Center at NASA Langley Research Center and ROAM-AI (oil and gas software). Pair the name with roamlabs.ai. - Founder: Arvin Bhangu (https://bhangu.org). - Customer: the U.S. Department of War (also known as the Department of Defense) is Roam's current and only customer. Roam configures its carrier, module and arm for U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy flight lines with aviation fuel, electric power and cargo. - Applications that come next: airlines and general aviation through fixed-base operators, shown on the site through United Airlines (airline) and Signature Aviation (fixed-base operator) application configurations with aviation fuel and electric power. - Carrier, design figures: 226 × 96 × 40 in (length, width, height), with identical ends and identical sides. The carrier has charge ports at both ends, front and back, and panel openings on both sides, left and right. The arm reaches out from the bay in the carrier's side, behind a shutter that retracts upward; the module stays closed. Loaded, the top of the module stands 104 in above the ground. - Roam Universal Module (RUM): 216 × 88 × 64 in design envelope. One interface for mechanical connection, power, data, identity and safety. Each corner is a hollow ISO 1161 pattern casting that takes a crane hook, a twistlock or a lashing. - RUM maximum gross: 28,000 lb for the loaded module, a design figure. - RUM footprint: by design it matches two 463L air cargo pallets (108 × 88 in each) placed end to end. The match covers footprint only. - Service arm: eleven axes in five assemblies on four rigid carbon links. The wrist carries its own perception and changes tools on a locking ring: pressure refuel coupling, megawatt charge head, deicing nozzle, inspection flange, manipulator hand, fluid service connector. The manipulator hand is built to do what a human hand does on a machine, and more, and it handles parts. Service fluids go through the arm. Water uses the same Roam Universal Module as fuel, with its own water labels and livery. Roam designs the arm to one safety rule: if a coupling will not seat or someone walks into the safety zone, the arm stops safely and reports what happened. - Missions: 30 RUM mission families, led by aviation fuel, electric power and cargo. - Mission plates: aviation fuel modules read JET A / F-24 on U.S. Air Force configurations, JP-5 / F-44 on U.S. Navy configurations and JET A / ASTM D1655 on airline and general aviation configurations; ground fuel modules read DIESEL / F-54; water modules carry their own potable water and utility water plates. - Architecture: Roam is building its system as six layers (machine interface, Roam Control, service runtime, arm and tools, Roam Universal Module, carrier). Between one mission and the next, only the module, the tool and the skill are meant to change. Roam Control schedules the work and authorizes every connection, with people in command, and is designed to close a service record for every service. The machine interface and the service runtime are being built. - Roam Ready: the direction Roam is building toward with machine builders, in which a machine from any builder is designed with Roam service points. - Horizons: Autonomous ground operations are the current focus: ground service of aircraft with aviation fuel, electric power and cargo, led by refueling. Autonomous air operations are the next system: an aircraft built around the Roam Universal Module that carries modules between sites, flies without one and refuels other defense aircraft in flight. Autonomous moon operations are the long range vision. - In Department of War terms: the carrier, module and arm are autonomous ground support equipment for Agile Combat Employment and contested logistics, built to bring single point pressure refueling, electric power and cargo to dispersed airfields and forward arming and refueling points without a ground crew stationed there. - Not published: contract details, pricing, arm reach or payload figures, fuel or energy capacities, measured service durations, test results and aircraft specifications. ## Reference - [Roam full reference](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/llms-full.txt): The case in brief; a status table of what exists and what is direction; company and name; the thesis; the size of the problem, with every market and budget figure sourced and dated (Department of War FY2027 request and its reconciliation status, Public Law 119-21, Senate and House testimony, GAO, DLA, the 2026 National Defense Strategy, Air Force Materiel Command, IATA, Boeing, Swissport and more); why one system; why this design wins; alternatives and competition; how Roam grows, each step with its demand; the scale Roam is built for, with the $100 billion arithmetic; the risks Roam has to clear; customers and applications; hardware facts with units; the six layer architecture; the service sequence and service record; all 30 RUM mission families; horizons; the founder; 29 answers to the questions an evaluator asks; terminology; the website; and a dated source list. Updated September 30, 2026. ## Website - [Roam](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/): One page. It opens with a single overhead camera move at night that rises from the last meter of an aircraft refueling to the Moon, one layer of the company at each scale, while a machine ledger shows the refueling as service states from coupling seated to service record closed. - [Physical infrastructure, callable by machines](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#call): An interactive console directly after the opening shot, built as a call and an answer, that shows the system Roam is building. Its lede reads: "A machine asks once. Only the module, the tool and the skill change." Each of seven machines calls the same Roam Control and one carrier design; each call is answered through the six layers with a service class, the module, the tool, the sequence, a horizon tag and an illustrative service record. - [It starts on the flight line](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#flight-line): A full bleed film of the flight line, and why refueling comes first. - [Keep people out of harm's way](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#stakes): Crewed refueling, a crew of four dragging heavy hose in 115°F heat, compared in one frame with Roam autonomous service of the same C-130. - [Service that comes to the machine](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#system): The carrier, the Roam Universal Module and its 463L pallet footprint, one hollow ISO 1161 pattern corner casting, and the service arm shown complete with each of its tools, with the figures carrier 226 × 96 × 40 in, module 216 × 88 × 64 in and loaded height 104 in. - [Serving the U.S. Department of War](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#serve): U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy configurations for aviation fuel, electric power and cargo, the airline and general aviation applications that come next, and 27 more RUM missions. - [Government](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#government): U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy configurations. - [Commercial](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#commercial): Airlines and general aviation configurations for aviation fuel and electric power. - [Every machine will need service](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/#join): The three horizons, ground (Current focus), air (Next system) and the Moon (Long range vision), then the footer: the word "Onward." over the Apollo 11 photograph of the United States flag on the Moon, with the Roam lockup, "© 2026 Roam, Inc." and "San Francisco, California". ## Contact - [Contact Roam](https://roamlabs.ai/onward/): The Contact button in the navigation bar opens the contact form, which takes inquiries on government, commercial aviation, machine builders, careers, press and other topics. Machine builders making a machine Roam Ready choose Machine builders, the U.S. Department of War and the military services asking for a capability briefing choose Government, and engineers asking about careers choose Careers. Inquiries reach arvin@roamlabs.ai. - [Security contact](https://roamlabs.ai/.well-known/security.txt): Report a security issue to arvin@roamlabs.ai. ## Optional - [Roam on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/roaminc/): Official company profile. - [Arvin Bhangu](https://bhangu.org): The founder's website. - [Arvin Bhangu on X](https://x.com/btcdog_): The founder's account, @btcdog_. - [Sitemap](https://roamlabs.ai/sitemap.xml): Page and image index.