# RIOS Intelligent Machines

> RIOS Intelligent Machines was a Menlo Park robotics company building AI-powered dexterous robots for factories, warehouses, and supply chains. Founded in 2018 by former Xerox PARC engineers, RIOS pioneered haptic intelligence and tactile sensing for industrial robots, deploying systems across e-commerce, manufacturing, food processing, and wood products before archiving the company in 2026.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founders:** Bernard Casse (CEO & Co-founder), Clinton Smith (CTO & Co-founder), Christopher Lalau-Keraly (Co-founder), Christopher Paulson (Co-founder), Matthew Shaffer (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~32 employees
- **Products:** Mission Control, AI Perception & Computer Vision, Robot Control & Motion, Edge AI Platform, ML Pipeline & Data Infrastructure
- **Notable:** Raised $37.5M total across Seed, Series A, and Series B, Closed $13M Series B in March 2024 co-led by Yamaha and IAG Capital Partners, Deployed 25+ edge AI sites and 8 FANUC robots in production environments

## Products & services

- **Mission Control** — A cloud-based platform for monitoring, managing, and orchestrating fleets of robotic workcells in production.
- **AI Perception & Computer Vision** — Real-time GPU inference for segmentation, 6DoF pose estimation, and defect detection.
- **Robot Control & Motion** — FANUC integration, conveyor tracking, PLC communication, and tactile sensing for dexterous manipulation.
- **Edge AI Platform** — Containerized agents, no-code logic builders, and on-device vision inference for the factory floor.
- **ML Pipeline & Data Infrastructure** — Auto-annotation, model distillation, and seamless edge deployment for industrial ML workloads.
- **Tactile Sensors** — The world's most advanced AI-powered tactile sensors for robotic grippers, enabling haptic intelligence.

## Achievements

- Raised $37.5M total across Seed, Series A, and Series B
- Closed $13M Series B in March 2024 co-led by Yamaha and IAG Capital Partners
- Deployed 25+ edge AI sites and 8 FANUC robots in production environments
- Published peer-reviewed research at CVPR and WACV on 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, and grasping
- Recognized by Manufacturing Technology Insights as a top Digital Transformation Solution Company (2021)

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Company archived its website; published IP for licensing and open-source release on GitHub.
- **2024-03** — Closed $13M Series B led by Yamaha Motor and IAG Capital Partners; began rolling out Mission Control fleet platform.
- **2024-03** — Announced expansion into lumber and plywood handling as flagship wood-products vertical.

## Links

- Website: https://rios.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rios-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RiosCorporation
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rios.robots/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RiosCorporation/

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Last updated: 2026-06-28