Modular payload bay
Interchangeable wrist payloads: the skill swaps in minutes. Aru also carries NDT probes and vision payloads to survey the steel before and after work.
We are Nio Robotics.
Physical AI for autonomous infrastructure operations
We design full-stack skilled robot operators.
Our polymorphic Aru is spearheading the journey.
Aru operates in constrained, tight or messy spaces: decoating, welding and more, on site, autonomously.
Stairs & ladders
Laser decoating
Through a 450 mm hatch
Welding
Magnetic contact
Airless paintingBuilt with the owners of the assets Aru works on
Skilled industrial work is still done by hand, in places built for no human.
Welders inside ship hulls. Crews in respirators inside penstocks. Aru takes the skill into the confined steel and keeps the people out.
Patent EP4401926 · Modular morphology One robot that reconfigures around the site
Legged robots are too long, humanoids too bulky, drones cannot decoat or weld. Aru's polymorphic body changes shape to fit the geometry, then carries a skilled payload to do the work.
One robot. Four modes.
Fits any geometry
Modular payloads
Swap the skill
Live
Laser decoating
Strips corrosion and coatings off steel with laser ablation. No grit, no blasting, no contaminated waste.
In development
Welding
Repair and assembly welds laid in place, inside confined steel.
Live
Airless painting
Applies the protective coating after decoating: the full recoat cycle, in place.
Where Aru works
Steel infrastructure, one vertical at a time
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Hydro
Operate on hydro infrastructures like penstocks (pipes) or inside flow-control gates: Aru moves through >450 mm hatches, climbs on magnetic feet to reach the roof, and decoats with laser, welds and controls.
For construction or regular maintenance. Using a laser decoating approach, containment and scaffolding overhead is reduced to an inconsequential number, even in asbestos and lead conditions. Deploy a fleet of Aru, get the work done fast and your asset back online.
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Naval
Whether you are building new ships or MRO, deploying Aru makes your operations more efficient, faster, less environmentally impacting with full waste-absorption payloads: decoating and surface prep, painting and the control that comes with it.
Without crews in respirators or hazmat waste streams. Even for your smaller compartments, Aru fits through hatches and deploys autonomously the process you are used to.
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Heavy industry
The platform generalizes anywhere skilled work happens inside confined steel.
Chemical tanks, offshore structures, refinery vessels, ports: same robot, same payloads, new site.
Deploy Aru on your worksite
If your assets have geometry no robot could enter, we probably built the one that can.
contact@nio-robotics.comDesigned & built in Toulouse
Engineered where life is good
Aru is designed and assembled in Toulouse, a South-of-France city of rare quality of life, where our team of engineers, scientists and roboticists choose to live and build.
Interested in building skilled robot operators? Write to us: contact@nio-robotics.com