Heavy Machines Are Getting Smarter.
Their Actuation Needs to Keep Up.
Heavy machinery is becoming increasingly electric, connected and autonomous.
RISE Robotics is developing Beltdraulic™, a fluid-free, high-force electric actuation
technology that delivers hydraulic-class force with the efficiency, sensing and control of an electromechanical system.
Founded by MIT engineers • 20+ patents • $10M+ total revenue • 3,000+ investors
Founded 2011
20+ Patents
Commercial Customers
Guinness World Record
THE QUESTION
Why Rethink Hydraulics?
Why Rethink Hydraulics?
Hydraulics have powered heavy machinery for generations because they deliver tremendous force reliably.
But today's machines are being asked to do more.
They need to use energy efficiently. Integrate with digital controls. Provide operating data. Support electrification and automation. And increasingly, interact intelligently with the physical world.
RISE saw an opportunity to rethink high-force actuation for that future.
Beltdraulic™ replaces hydraulic fluid with a patented system of steel-reinforced polyurethane belts and pulleys packaged into a compact linear actuator.
The result is a new approach to high-force motion designed for applications traditionally served by hydraulics.
The Shift
AI Has Learned to See, Write and Reason. Now It Has to Move Things.
As AI moves beyond screens and into machines, intelligent software needs hardware that can interact with the physical world.
RISE is building high-force electric actuation that combines motion, sensing and digital control, helping create the physical infrastructure for increasingly intelligent and autonomous heavy machinery.
PROOF
From an Engineering Idea to Real-World Machines
RISE isn't just developing technology in the lab.Beltdraulic™ combines the force density expected from hydraulics with the controllability and software integration of electric actuation.
Total revenue
First commercial cylinder customers in the U.S. and Europe
Uptime delivered in a liftgate pilot with a major food and beverage distributor
World's Strongest Robotic Arm Prototype
Advancing RISE's fluid-free munitions handling technology
OPPORTUNITY
A New Actuation Layer for Heavy Machinery
Construction. Material handling. Defense. Ground support equipment. Industrial automation.
Across these industries, machines still depend heavily on hydraulic actuation.
RISE is building another option: high-force electric actuation designed for a generation of machinery that is increasingly electrified, connected and intelligent.
INVEST IN RISE ROBOTICS
Help Build the Future
of Industrial Motion
RISE has raised $27M from Techstars, Engine Ventures, Fortistar Capital, KingsCrowd Capital, Gates Corporation and a community of more than 3,000 investors.
Now we're working to expand commercialization of Beltdraulic™ across commercial and defense applications.
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