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.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.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 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.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.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.PATENT 9513627 // 06.DECEMBER.2016AUTONOMOUS 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 efficientlyPATENT 9540171 // // 10.JANUARY.2017AUTONOMOUS ORDER FULFILLMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROL ROBOTSA more advanced version of our Autonomous Order Fulfillment and Inventory Control RobotsPATENT 9731896 // // 15.AUGUST.2017AUTONOMOUS ORDER FULFILLMENT AND INVENTORY CONTROL ROBOTSA more advanced version of our Autonomous Order Fulfillment and Inventory Control RobotsPATENT 10134006 // // 20.NOVEMBER.2018WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATING ROBOTSProprietary system integration and management of workflows, including Pick-to-Cart, Pick-to-Transit, Retrieve-then-Pick and Hybrid Pick Wall