The Palo Alto-based RIOS has rapidly emerged as one of the leading automation and robotics solutions providers that offer industry-leading robotics, hardware, and software. It helps global customers automate their factory assembly lines, warehouses and logistics operations by deploying AI-powered robotic work cells. “The need for robotics has exponentially increased over the years and RIOS is at the helm of addressing surges in clients’ demands and consistently delivering value to them to ultimately solve the global workforce issues,” begins Dr. Bernard Casse, Founder and CEO at RIOS.

The need for robotics has exponentially increased over the years and RIOS is at the helm of addressing surges in clients’ demands and consistently delivering value to them to ultimately solve the global workforce issues

During the pandemic, RIOS stayed at the forefront of serving clients with one of its premier factory automation-as-a-service offering, geared towards automating tasks requiring humanlevel dexterity in unstructured environments. Today, practically all factories worldwide are labor-intensive and 72% of tasks are performed by human operators. RIOS’ all-inclusive service consists of installation, programming, 24/7 monitoring, and maintenance of robotic workcells. In addition, their robots-as-a-service (RaaS) business model with zero upfront capital costs lowers the barrier for automation for clients, allowing businesses to fund their automation needs with no financial risks.

What differentiates RIOS is its hardware and software innovations, and the massive robotics infrastructure that they’ve engineered. Innovation is in RIOS’ DNA as co-founders and some staff members come from the legendary Xerox PARC. Beyond a proprietary platform to deploy robots at scale, the company is broadly known as a pioneer of haptic intelligence for robots and developed the world’s most advance tactile sensors for robots, powered by advanced AI. This first-of-its-kind hardware has thousands of miniaturized sensors relaying biometric tactile information, enabling the robot to have a human-like sense of touch. RIOS has also built an impressive suite of robotic workcells, novel end-of-arm tooling, food-grade grippers, and world-class AIpowered algorithms to handle last-mile automation within clients’ factories.

Apart from building its own intelligent machines, the team at RIOS partners with selected systems integrators and third-party vendors to bring “lights-out” factory automation to clients. Speed, unparalleled innovations, and being customer-centric lie at the company’s core and drive how it builds and deploys robots at unprecedented speeds compared to other robotics companies or traditional systems integrators. RIOS deployed machines have collectively handled millions of items and helped customers in some cases to enjoy as much as 60 percent savings and 150% gain in productivity.

RIOS is rapidly expanding into multiple market verticals. The company’s ambition is to further streamline its processes to set foot in every industry in the future. “We are working towards the ambitious goal of building a future in which factories across every industry are automated—we’d like to establish more local supply chains, to consistently deliver value to customers, and importantly to solve the global workforce crisis,” concludes Dr. Casse.