Wherobots

What is Wherobots?

Wherobots is the AI Context Engine for the Physical World. It gives data engineers, data scientists, and AI developers a unified platform for geospatial analytics, satellite imagery analysis, and spatial AI at planetary scale. WherobotsDB handles distributed spatial compute with 300+ spatial functions covering vector and raster data, with native Spark SQL for tabular operations. RasterFlow runs satellite imagery analysis at any scale. The Spatial AI Coding Assistant connects to VS Code and every major AI coding environment. Built by the original creators of Apache Sedona (68M+ downloads), 100%

Does Wherobots work with Databricks, AWS and Apache Iceberg?

Yes. Wherobots connects to your data wherever it lives without requiring migration. For Amazon S3, WherobotsDB reads and writes directly to your own S3 buckets using cross-account IAM roles. For Databricks users, WherobotsDB connects to Unity Catalog and runs geospatial analytics on data already in your lakehouse. For teams using AWS Glue, WherobotsDB connects to AWS Glue Catalog as an Iceberg catalog, letting you manage and query your existing Iceberg tables from Wherobots Spark workloads. Apache Sedona workloads running in AWS Glue, Databricks, or EMR run on WherobotsDB with zero code change

How does Wherobots compare to PostGIS, Google Earth Engine, and Databricks?

PostGIS runs on a single machine and cannot scale horizontally. Teams that outgrow PostGIS face a hard ceiling on geospatial data analysis at scale. WherobotsDB handles planetary-scale distributed geospatial analytics across billions of geometries. Google Earth Engine splits raster and vector into separate systems with separate APIs. WherobotsDB unifies both with 300+ spatial functions covering vector and raster data, with native Spark SQL for tabular operations. Databricks runs spatial joins using H3 approximations that sacrifice geometric precision. WherobotsDB delivers geometrically correct

How do I use Wherobots with VS Code or my favorite agentic coding tool?

The Spatial AI Coding Assistant is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace. Install it there to write and run spatial queries directly from VS Code. For Claude Code, OpenCode, and other agentic development tools, install the Wherobots MCP server. The MCP server gives your AI coding environment direct access to Wherobots, including the ability to design queries against your spatial data estate, understand datasets in S3 and Databricks Unity Catalog, and run those queries on WherobotsDB. Support for additional coding environments is expanding.

Who built Wherobots and what is the connection to Apache Sedona?

Wherobots was founded in June 2022 by Jia Yu and Mo Sarwat, the researchers who created Apache Sedona at Arizona State University. Apache Sedona is the most widely deployed open-source distributed spatial engine in the world, with 68M+ downloads. It runs on Apache Spark and Apache Flink and supports spatial SQL, Python, Java, and Scala. WherobotsDB extends the capabilities of Apache Sedona and is 100% code compatible, meaning any Apache Sedona workload runs on Wherobots with zero code changes. Wherobots adds managed cloud infrastructure, RasterFlow for satellite imagery analysis at any scale,

How do I get started with Wherobots?

Get started with a Professional account with advanced features, or talk to an expert if you have questions about your use case. New Pro subscribers can get a 30-day free trial with $300 in consumption credits.