Robotics deployment and safety engineers reviewing operating requirements at an engineering workstation. Illustrative generated scene.
Helios for Robotics & Autonomy

what’s next?

The robots are ready. Is the operation?

The Helios Experience

Rehearse deployment in the world it must work in.
You define the outcome. Helios finds the path.

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Rehearse deployment in the world it must work in.

A capable robot still needs a workable operating environment. Compare fleet plans and workflows under real demand, human interaction and safety constraints.

Meet Helios Brain

01Operating design domain

02Fleet and workflow capacity

03Human and machine safety

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Robotics & Autonomy
Helios BrainDEMO

AI-generated, hypothetical plans. No live business data, verified professional advice or real actions.

Do not enter sensitive information. Prompts are processed by AI and temporarily retained for this demo.

Choose a question or write your own goal0/5 steps connected
  1. 01
    Define the outcome
  2. 02
    Connect dependencies
  3. 03
    Compare routes
  4. 04
    Check constraints
  5. 05
    Human approval
Choose a question or enter your goal.The AI will create five steps and three distinct routes.
RecommendedBalanced path
AI-proposed timing
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Referenced constraints
Awaiting AI map
Approval
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ClearPressureBlockedAssumptionDependencyApproval gateEvidence

Embedded perception. Explicit human boundaries.

The robot can understand its workspace and act within an approved envelope. Deployment strategy and changes to that envelope belong to responsible human teams.

Decision authority

Deployment, operations & safety leads

Approve operating domains, task permissions, safety limits and material changes to robotic deployment.

Helios supports

Compare workflows and validate deployment assumptions before expanding autonomy.

A real industrial robot with a mounted vision camera inspecting components under human supervision. Illustrative generated scene.
Embedded robot systems & cell supervisors
Perception inside the robot

The intelligence can live in the machine.

Sensors provide local context for bounded tasks. Uncertainty, a new obstacle or a safety-boundary change should lead to a safe fallback or review, not unchecked expansion of authority.

Appropriate scope
Perform validated tasks within the approved operating and safety envelope.
Review & escalation
Human supervisors and safety authorities for uncertain or out-of-envelope conditions.
Evidence returned
Sensor observations, task outcomes, exceptions and operating-envelope evidence.

Illustrative ecosystem and interfaces, not a live deployment. Roles, integrations and approval limits are defined with each organization.

See the options. Understand the consequences.

01

Compare fleet and workflow configurations

Ground the comparison in your data, your objective and your constraints.

02

Test operating-envelope assumptions

Make dependencies and assumptions visible before you commit.

03

Plan rollout with human oversight

Carry the chosen path into a plan your team can review and act on.

The decisions worth rehearsing.

Potential applications, scoped to your data, priorities and operating environment.

01

Fleet deployment under workforce constraints

Project autonomy roll-out across sites and roles. See workforce transition paths, retraining needs, and union and regulatory friction before the press release.

02

Operational design domain calibration

Test the boundary of the autonomy envelope. Speeds, weather, lighting, payloads. Against actual operational data. Identify where the system actually holds versus where the brochure overstates.

03

Safety case and incident response

Rehearse incident scenarios. Sensor failure, edge case, mis-classification. And the response policy each triggers. Build the safety case the regulator will demand.

04

Human-in-the-loop policy design

Compare alternative supervision modes against throughput, error rate and operator load. Identify the policy that holds safety without throttling value.

05

Liability and insurance positioning

Project the liability surface across operator, manufacturer, integrator and insurer. Identify the contracting structure that survives the first incident.

06

Capital case and unit economics

Test deployment economics across utilisation, downtime, maintenance and capital cost scenarios. Identify where autonomy actually pays back versus where it merely automates.

A useful pilot starts with the right foundations.

Agree a bounded decision, a baseline and acceptance criteria before introducing operational use. Scope and timing depend on your data, governance and intended application.

The data
  • Recorded task, sensor and workspace observations
  • Operating-domain definitions and task permissions
  • Validation history, exceptions and fallback records
The people
  • Deployment and safety sponsor
  • Robotics, perception and cell-operations specialists
  • Assurance and industrial-system data owners
The evaluation
  • Performance and constraint adherence in a controlled test set
  • Out-of-envelope detection and appropriate deferral
  • Correct supervisory review and fallback behavior
Before operational use
  • Controlled non-production validation environment
  • Independent safety functions and named deployment authority
  • Approved task limits, supervision and stop procedures

Knowing when to stop is part of the decision.

Missing evidence, uncertain conditions and absent authority require different responses. A recommendation must not silently become an action.

The signal

The workspace or sensor evidence is incomplete or unreliable.

Appropriate response
Defer the affected task and request human inspection.
Responsible review
Cell supervisor and perception-validation team
Before the path resumes
The workspace and sensing assumptions are validated.

Your rules are part of the model.

Regulatory context shapes how a system should be designed and reviewed. Your legal, compliance and domain teams remain part of that process.

EU AI Act high-risk classification for autonomous systems

Machinery Regulation (EU 2023/1230)

ISO 13482 / ISO 10218 safety standards

Sector-specific liability frameworks (automotive, medical, industrial)

Context for implementation, not a certification or guarantee of regulatory compliance.

Trust and governance

Start with the decision that matters to you.

The outcome, the boundaries and the people responsible. A focused starting point for a conversation about your organization.

Use high-level descriptions only. Do not include confidential, personal, patient, financial-account or classified information.

  1. 01The outcome
  2. 02The constraints
  3. 03The people
  4. 04Your details

The outcome

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