About Us
The inVia Robotics Story
We know thriving businesses can’t happen without humming warehouses, and warehouse operations are under pressure like never before. The accurate and efficient movement of goods within these spaces is the heartbeat of your business and 1-day shipping has dramatically upped the stakes.
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At inVia, we understand the critical processes and goods that warehouses need to keep in constant motion.
That’s why we built a flexible, agile approach to organize these many moving parts into perfect harmony. inVia revitalizes warehouses, using automation to eliminate stagnation and fuel progress.
THE RESULT IS…
A seamless system humming with productivity, speed & precision 24/7
A system where people and technology each rise to their maximum potential. We bring unmatched order, accuracy, and efficiency to transform warehouses into future-ready opportunity centers.
Our History
INNOVATION VIA ROBOTICS
The name inVia Robotics is derived from our approach of “innovation via robotics”
Lior Elazary
Randolph Voorhies
Dan Parks
Our founders – Lior Elazary, Dan Parks and Randolph Voorhies – met while working on their Ph.D. degrees in robotics at the University of Southern California. They found they were a natural team, and they were curious and passionate about how they could apply automation to solve existing problems. They took Plato’s wisdom to heart: “necessity is the mother of invention.”
In the process of exploring applications and building prototypes, they had their “aha!” moment as they were ordering sheets of aluminum and other parts online … with free overnight shipping. With a little research it became clear that the existing e-commerce fulfillment process couldn’t keep up with consumer demand for online ordering of every kind of product you could imagine.
Warehouses would have to innovate, and this was the perfect environment for automation. The team was driven by a mission to automate repetitive tasks so people could get that time back and use it in more fulfilling ways. Warehouses were filled with these types of tasks. So they developed the first system that made autonomous mobile robotics economical for anyone fulfilling e-commerce orders and made the benefits of automation available to the mass market.
Our Executive Team
Lior Elazary
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Lior has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in internet networking, robotics, software development and enterprise architecture businesses.
Dr. Dan Parks
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer
Dan is a robotics expert with 17 years of experience in the field. He oversees the manufacturing, deployment and remote monitoring of the inVia Picker robots within customer warehouses.
Dr. Randolph Voorhies
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Rand is a technology and robotics expert. He leads the inVia engineering team that builds the AI-driven software at the core of the robotics system.
Kurt Nantkes
Chief Revenue Officer
Kurt joined the inVia Robotics team in 2019 to lead sales, lead qualification, and go-to-market revenue strategy. He brings more than a decade of experience as a sales executive in hardware-enabled SaaS markets.
Our Patents
AUTONOMOUS ORDER FULFILLMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROL ROBOTS
Mobile robots capable of autonomously filling orders and performing other warehouse tasks, using a warehouse’s existing shelving, totes and configuration
HUMAN AND ROBOTIC DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM (HARD-OS)
Software that improves robots’ ability to operate robustly and securely in a variety of environments by facilitating more efficient cooperation between people and robots
HUMAN AND ROBOTIC DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM (HARD-OS)
A more advanced and comprehensive version of our original Human and Robotic Distributed Operating System
PATENT 9513627 // 06.DECEMBER.2016
AUTONOMOUS COORDINATION OF RESOURCES AMONG ROBOTS A system for synchronizing robots operating in the same space and prioritizing resource allocation to minimize the time robots spend waiting to perform tasks and allow them to move more efficiently
PATENT 9540171 // // 10.JANUARY.2017
AUTONOMOUS ORDER FULFILLMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROL ROBOTS
A more advanced version of our Autonomous Order Fulfillment and Inventory Control Robots
PATENT 9731896 // // 15.AUGUST.2017
AUTONOMOUS ORDER FULFILLMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROL ROBOTS
A more advanced version of our Autonomous Order Fulfillment and Inventory Control Robots
PATENT 9908702 // 06.MARCH. 2018
ROBOTIC NAVIGATION AND MAPPING
A system for robotic navigation that uses fiducials to identify item location, adjust robot orientation and then use feature mapping for alignment
PATENT 10078916 // // 18.SEPTEMBER.2018
PICK TO AUGMENTED REALITY
Use of an augmented reality device that coordinates user movements, identifies items to pick or counts restocking of inventory
PATENT 10134006 // // 20.NOVEMBER.2018
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATING ROBOTS
Proprietary system integration and management of workflows, including Pick-to-Cart, Pick-to-Transit, Retrieve-then-Pick and Hybrid Pick Wall
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Lior Elazary
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Education
Lior completed a master’s degree of computer science at the University of Southern California (USC) with a specialty focus on artificial intelligence.He attended a Ph.D. program in robotics at USC where he met his inVia co-founders. Their work together sparked a passion for the dramatic effect robots can have in driving efficiency and productivity, and most importantly in helping people live happier and more fulfilling lives.
Dan Parks
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer
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Randolph Voorhies
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Experience
Education
Kristen Moore
Chief Marketing Officer
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Mike Kleiman
Chief Financial Officer
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Kurt Nantkes
Chief Revenue Officer
Experience
Kurt joined the inVia Robotics team in 2019 to lead sales, lead qualification, and go-to-market revenue strategy. He brings more than a decade of experience as a sales executive in hardware-enabled SaaS markets. With more than 15 years’ experience building and leading sales teams and strategies in the supply chain and logistics space, Kurt most recently led the sales go-to-market strategy at Fetch Robotics. Prior to that he was part of the executive team at Zonar Systems.
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