Wearable vision for industrial assembly
MIRAGE smart glasses paired with a wrist-mounted camera stream a live view of the worker’s own hands inside blind, confined spaces — starting with aerospace assembly.
Founded by an ex-COMAC process engineer who designed the C929 pylon assembly station — and lived this problem firsthand.
The problem
Reaching into wings, pylons and engine bays by feel costs hours and drives rework.
Teams cut access windows into panels just to fit a hand or a line of sight — sacrificing structural strength.
In tight structures a person cannot get their eyes on the work at all.
Crawling into a wing or stabilizer cavity to fasten by hand is time-consuming, limits build rate, and is ergonomically hard — and for tight structures it may not be possible at all.
— documented across aerospace manufacturing, incl. Boeing assembly patents
The current process
A pylon side panel has one small round access hatch. To fasten a diaphragm behind it, the worker:
Reaches both arms in through the hatch
Loses sight of the fastening point almost entirely
Tries to align the diaphragm by feel alone
Pulls the head back out, repositions the body
Reaches back in — and repeats until the part seats
Only then torques the fasteners
Not the torquing of bolts — the losses come from:
MIRAGE removes the need to work blind — cutting visual search and part-positioning time. Estimated reduction in task time for limited-visibility operations, with fewer assembly errors. Engineering estimate — to be confirmed in production trials.
The product
Real hardware — not a render. The core capture-and-display loop works today.
A camera on the wrist sees exactly what the hand is doing, deep inside the structure.
The hidden view streams into the MIRAGE glasses, in the worker’s line of sight.
Thumb gestures aim and operate the camera — hands stay on the task.
Why us
At COMAC, on the C929 widebody programme, our founder engineered the assembly station for the pylon — the structure that joins the engine to the wing.
To fasten it, hands had to reach where the eyes couldn’t follow. The only fix on the table was cutting larger openings into the panels — trading away structural strength for access. SULTEK OPTICALS removes that trade-off.