From Center Stage at MD&M West to The Complete AI Guide Podcast 🎙️

RISE Robotics recently took center stage at MD&M West, joining Justin Starbird of The Aebli Group for a live discussion on community-backed funding and industrial growth.

I had the opportunity to share RISE’s experience navigating crowdfunding, and, importantly, to help other hardware-focused companies see a real path toward funding their innovations. During the session, we talked candidly about what helped RISE become the #1 Regulation Crowdfunding raise of 2025, now with more than $5.7M committed from over 2,500 investors.

🎥 Check out the talk here

I also recently sat down with George Mathew for his Complete AI Guide podcast.

George is an AI evangelist and digital innovation leader with 20+ years of global experience helping organizations turn AI into measurable business results. We discussed what’s truly limiting industrial AI: action. AI can reason, but turning that intelligence into powerful, precise, durable motion in the real world still depends on outdated hydraulics.

That’s the gap we’re closing at RISE. Beltdraulic™ is 3x faster, 3x more efficient, and 3x more durable than hydraulics – and inherently digital. 

With natural haptic feedback from motor current sensing and native belt/rod position tracking, our actuators provide real-time load data and seamless integration with AI-driven systems – without relying on external sensors. 

We’re enabling heavy machines to become electric, zero-emission, and AI-ready by design.

🎧 Listen to the podcast here

Thank you to our investor community for helping make moments like these possible. 🦾

If you’re an accredited investor, don’t miss your chance to invest today at the same valuation and terms as our recent Reg CF round: invest.riserobotics.com