Built by an inventor.Wrapped by hand.
SpaceShip Wraps was founded by Raoul Shah, the inventor behind AutoWrap Robotics and AutoWrap AI®. Four issued U.S. patents, 62 claims, assigned to AutoWrap Robotics LLC.
Every vehicle SpaceShip Wraps installs is wrapped by a person, by hand. The technology below is what AutoWrap Robotics is building — it is not what wraps your car.
What we do now, and what’s being built.
What SpaceShip Wraps is today
- Professional human installation
- Tesla-focused
- 3M and Avery Dennison experience required of installers
- Panel-by-panel preparation, installation and finishing
- Documented vehicle condition and quality control
- Appointment only
- Tesla wraps starting at $6,000
What AutoWrap Robotics is building
- AI control systems for robotic surface treatment
- 3D vision that builds a model of the vehicle surface
- Robotic lighting installation and servicing
- AI operations for autonomous vehicle service centers
- Research and development, under four issued U.S. patents
The patents referenced here are assigned to AutoWrap Robotics LLC, a separate company founded by the same inventor. SpaceShip Wraps does not own them.
The problem the patents start from
Vehicle wrapping is almost entirely manual and almost entirely dependent on individual experience. Two installers, the same film, the same car, and you can get two different results. That gap between craft and consistency is what the patents set out to describe.
4 issued U.S. patents.62 claims.
Assigned to AutoWrap Robotics LLC. Inventor: Raoul Shah.
AI-controlled robotic vehicle surface treatment
An AI control system that scans a vehicle in 3D, chooses the right tool head for the surface in front of it, and carries out multi-step surface treatment — film application, wrapping, coating, tint — while detecting defects and correcting in real time.
It is a description, in patent language, of what a skilled installer actually does: read the surface, pick the tool, work the material, spot the flaw, fix it. Writing that down precisely enough to be granted required understanding the craft first.
This patent claims a system, not a method. It recites multi-step surface treatment operations, but no ordered sequence of steps is claimed.
View the patent →AI-led robotic vehicle-lighting installation and servicing
A system and a method for installing and servicing vehicle lighting — fiber-optic starlight headliners, LED strips, headlight and taillight assemblies — using robots that build a 3D model of the vehicle, plan the work, and place components with tactile feedback.
Lighting work means handling headliner fabric, trim and wiring without marking any of it. The claims are built around controlled force and material integrity, which is the same instinct that makes a good wrap: touch it as little as possible, and only where you mean to.
Claim 12 is a genuine ordered method — the only claimed ordered sequence in the robotics portfolio.
View the patent →Humanoid AI for autonomous vehicle service centers
An AI system for running a vehicle service facility: reading vehicle diagnostics, generating explainable repair strategies, dispatching work to robots with assigned roles, maintaining a digital twin of both the vehicle and the facility, and keeping customers informed.
This one is about running the shop, not touching the car — intake, scheduling, bay utilization, keeping a project from stalling. Much of how SpaceShip Wraps is organized today, as software rather than robots, comes from having thought that problem through.
View the patent →AI dermatological imaging and predictive simulation
A method for tracking how a pigment pattern in skin changes across treatment sessions — normalizing photographs taken under different lighting, quantifying the change, and forecasting a completion date with a confidence weighting.
Not automotive, and included here only for completeness of the portfolio. Its relevance is the underlying discipline: photograph a surface, normalize for lighting, measure what actually changed, and predict honestly with a stated confidence.
A dermatological imaging patent, in a different industry from the three robotics patents. FADE MY INK® is a trademark, not the title of this patent.
View the patent →These are issued United States patents. No foreign counterparts are claimed.
Six ideas, each traceable to a claim.
Surface understanding
The patents are built around 3D scanning and digital surface models — reading the surface before touching it.
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Material handling
Claimed tooling covers film tensioning, heated spatula work, vibration-assisted squeegee technique and knifeless trimming.
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Defect detection
Bubbles, wrinkles and coating imperfections are claimed as detectable conditions with corrective response.
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Environmental adaptation
Ambient temperature, humidity, wind and contamination are claimed variables — the same conditions that decide whether an install goes well.
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Learning from experts
Mapping human expert demonstration onto robotic motion through imitation learning is claimed.
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Quality feedback
Quality-control findings automatically updating the models is a claimed step of the ordered method.
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Any demonstration of the robotic systems is a simulation illustrating the disclosed inventions, not a physical working prototype.
Today’s craft. Tomorrow’s technology.
SpaceShip Wraps operates today with professional human installation and proven tools. It was also founded out of a technology background aimed at the future of vehicle surface transformation.
The practical effect is not that a robot touches your car. It is that we are unusually interested in the parts of this trade that can be measured — surface condition, material behavior, what was documented before work started, what quality control actually checked. Writing patents about automating a craft requires understanding the craft in detail first.
See what the technology is built to transform.Tesla wraps start at $6,000.
The patents are about the future. The Teslas are being wrapped now, by hand, one at a time.