Location
Headquarters: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe
Region: Zurich
Country: CH
Continent: Europe
About
RIVR builds General Physical AI by deploying autonomous legged robots for real-world doorstep delivery. Each delivery generates data that improves their AI, combining large-scale reinforcement learning in simulation with real-world self-supervised learning. By owning the full stack from software to hardware, they design for reliability, safety, and cost efficiency from day one, enabling Physical AI to scale across parcel, grocery, and instant delivery. Headquartered in Switzerland as RIVR Technologies AG, the company focuses on scalable, automated doorstep delivery solutions.
RIVR Technologies AG develops autonomous legged robots for last-mile delivery in urban environments. The company combines hardware and software to provide Physical AI solutions for parcel and grocery logistics, leveraging data from deliveries to improve its algorithms. Its primary customers are logistics providers seeking automated doorstep delivery services.
RIVR Technologies AG
2023
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Manufacturing
Categories
Funding & Financials
Grant
$25.5M
1m-10m
private
Investors
Founders
Alexander Reske
Giorgio Valsecchi
Lorenz Wellhausen
Marko Bjelonic
Leadership
Technology Stack
Products
RIVR ONE: An autonomous wheeled-legged delivery robot designed to navigate the last mile and final 100 yards to customers' doorsteps, carrying parcels, groceries, and food securely.
Last-Mile Delivery Service: A service using RIVR ONE robots to autonomously deliver parcels, groceries, and food from pickup points to customers' doorsteps, covering the entire last mile and final 100 yards.
Van-Dispensed Delivery Integration: A delivery mode where RIVR ONE robots attach to delivery vans to perform parallel autonomous deliveries, increasing parcel throughput alongside human drivers.
Physical AI Technology Platform: A technology platform combining reinforcement and supervised learning to train artificial neural networks for real-world autonomous robot decision-making and navigation.
24/7 Remote Support Service: A remote assistance service providing continuous monitoring and troubleshooting support for deployed RIVR delivery robots to ensure operational reliability.
Funding rounds
Acquired · (2026-03-19)
Grant · (2025-09-01) · Lead: Innosuisse
Seed · $22M · (2024-08-28) · Lead: Bezos Expeditions,HSG