Swiss-Mile, which is designing and constructing quadrupeds and enabling them with embodied AI, has rebranded to a brand new identify: RIVR.
The Zurich, Switzerland-based firm focuses on constructing bodily AI for last-mile supply, utilizing robots plus synthetic intelligence to boost effectivity and sustainability. As Swiss-Mile, it was identified for its integration of synthetic neural networks into robots with wheels and legs.
RIVR stated its expertise addresses the rising demand for smarter and greener logistics options in city environments.
RIVR is hiring
The renamed firm has a dozen open positions, together with a senior product supervisor. RIVR has been filling a variety of management positions over the previous yr, together with hiring Razwan Ghafoor as head of product and Ben Simmen as head of income in the midst of 2024.
Marko Bjelonic, co-founder and CEO of Swiss-Mile, stated he’s trying ahead to being extra concerned in operations and manufacturing. Bringing in skilled individuals will allow him to focus extra on rising the enterprise, Bjelonic stated.
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Rebranding precedes area exams
The choice to rebrand an organization isn’t a simple one. The announcement adopted Swiss-Mile’s profitable $22 million seed spherical in August 2024, co-led by Jeff Bezos, govt chairman of Amazon, by means of Bezos Expeditions and HSG. The corporate stated on the time that the funding demonstrated the business’s confidence in its imaginative and prescient and expertise.
With area testing scheduled to start this yr, RIVR plans to indicate how its improvements can remodel some of the difficult and significant facets of e-commerce logistics. RIVR is presently closing one other funding spherical, geared toward accelerating the event and deployment of its supply robots.
“It was time for an evolution of our model,” stated Bjeonic. “We’ve discovered product-market match and are actively working with main gamers within the logistics sector.”
“Swiss-Mile served us effectively after we have been a small workforce rising from college, however our ambitions lengthen far past,” he defined. “We goal to change into one of many world’s main robotics firms, and for that imaginative and prescient, we want a reputation that can stand the check of time. RIVR carries a robust and deep that means—one that may evolve with us as we transfer from proof of idea to scaling to tons of of hundreds of robots.”
The corporate is concentrated on logistics purposes for its wheeled quadruped robotic. By equipping it with wheels, RIVR stated the cell robotic can effectively transfer over lengthy distances utilizing its wheels, whereas additionally being able to traversing curbs, stairs and different obstacles utilizing legged locomotion as wanted. Its a novel kinematic design that solves most of the challenges of last-mile supply, the corporate asserted.
“Working with main logistics carriers to deploy our robots for last-mile supply marks a big milestone in our mission to remodel the house,” acknowledged Bjelonic.
He was lately a visitor on The Robotic Report Podcast, the place he talked in regards to the evolution of the robotic.
