Silicon Valley private-wireless pioneer Celona on Aug. 12, 2026 launched Celona Orion, an agentic converged wireless platform that stitches private 5G, Wi-Fi 7, public cellular and satellite connectivity into a single deterministic fabric for physical AI, autonomous mobile robots and self-driving vehicles.
One SIM, Every Network
Historically, an AMR or autonomous hauler has had to pick a side between Wi-Fi or private 5G, often from rival vendors. Celona said Orions core innovation is control-plane and data-plane convergence, so a single SIM identity on the robot can authenticate on both Celona Wi-Fi and Celona private 5G while roaming between them. A mining hauler can lean on private 5G during a shift and hop to Wi-Fi in the garage for overnight downloads without losing session identity.
Agents, MCP And A Digital-Twin Engineer
Orion ships with an Orchestrator AI that exposes network capabilities through open, standards-based interfaces, plus Celona Brain, a model trained on the companys internal documents that behaves like a digital twin of a Celona field engineer. Troubleshooting data stays local and is accessible to LLMs through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), aimed at the reality that most roboticists are not wireless experts.
Open-Source Radio Agent For Robotics OEMs
Celona also introduced Celona AerConnect, an open-source, vendor-neutral radio agent for robotics OEMs. AerConnect gives each endpoint awareness of every available wireless interface and can steer traffic based on quality thresholds, letting a robot switch networks when performance degrades. Orion also integrates Starlink so a new site can be brought online in hours, extending the same operating model to remote or off-grid deployments. General availability is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026.
Where Orion Fits
The launch lands as physical-AI networks become an infrastructure question, not a feature — echoing themes in Waymos California expansion and Wing and Walmarts Orlando drone launch, both of which lean on layered, low-latency wireless. Celona has raised more than 135 million USD from Lightspeed, Norwest, NTT Ventures, DigitalBridge and Qualcomm Ventures to build the stack.
Reporting based on coverage from The Robot Report and Celona.