Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RIS (REVOLUTIONISING INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS WITH THE NEXT GENERATION ROBOT-SPECIFIC AI-POWERED SECURITY PLATFORM)
Período documentado: 2024-07-01 hasta 2025-06-30
Context and Overall Objectives
Alias Robotics addresses a growing cybersecurity gap: the lack of protection for industrial robots. As Industry 4.0 expands, robots — once isolated — are now connected and exposed to hostile networks, making them vulnerable to attacks. Traditional IT/OT security tools fail to meet the specific needs of robots, which use distinct protocols and real-time controls.
Alias Robotics aims to fill this gap with the Robot Immune System (RIS) — the first cybersecurity solution tailored for robots. RIS is embedded, adaptive, and OS-agnostic, capable of protecting both legacy and modern robots from known and unknown threats in real time.
Pathway to Impact
The project follows a phased approach to impact:
1. Technology Maturation & Piloting – Continue R&D to enhance RIS capabilities (e.g. AI-based detection, anomaly response, compliance with IEC 62443), and validate the solution in real-world industrial pilot environments with major partners.
2. Productization & Certification – Package the technology into scalable formats and work towards compliance with international standards to facilitate adoption and market trust.
3. Market Entry & Growth – Leverage established partnerships with robot OEMs, resellers, and integrators to deploy RIS in diverse verticals including automotive, pharma, electronics, and critical infrastructure.
4. Long-Term Impact – Position Alias Robotics as a strategic EU cybersecurity player, driving the standard for robot protection globally and ensuring that EU-made technology leads this emerging market.
Strategic & Political Relevance
The project directly aligns with European strategic goals:
- It supports the Cybersecurity Act and Cyber Resilience Act by developing certified, resilient cybersecurity technology for critical automation systems.
- It strengthens European technological sovereignty, offering a fully EU-developed alternative to foreign (mainly US) cybersecurity solutions.
- It contributes to industrial continuity and safety, protecting not only business assets but also human lives in environments where robots work alongside people.
Scale and Significance
The expected impact is substantial:
- Protecting over 3.5 million robots currently deployed globally, with numbers growing rapidly.
- Tapping into a robot cybersecurity market projected to exceed €11.6 billion by 2033, with Alias Robotics aiming to lead a market segment expected to grow at 11% CAGR.
- Creating a world-first product category that can prevent multi-million-euro damages, protect intellectual property, and avoid reputational disasters due to cyberattacks on industrial robots.
Alias Robotics addresses a growing cybersecurity gap: the lack of protection for industrial robots. As Industry 4.0 expands, robots — once isolated — are now connected and exposed to hostile networks, making them vulnerable to attacks. Traditional IT/OT security tools fail to meet the specific needs of robots, which use distinct protocols and real-time controls.
Alias Robotics aims to fill this gap with the Robot Immune System (RIS) — the first cybersecurity solution tailored for robots. RIS is embedded, adaptive, and OS-agnostic, capable of protecting both legacy and modern robots from known and unknown threats in real time.
Pathway to Impact
The project follows a phased approach to impact:
1. Technology Maturation & Piloting – Continue R&D to enhance RIS capabilities (e.g. AI-based detection, anomaly response, compliance with IEC 62443), and validate the solution in real-world industrial pilot environments with major partners.
2. Productization & Certification – Package the technology into scalable formats and work towards compliance with international standards to facilitate adoption and market trust.
3. Market Entry & Growth – Leverage established partnerships with robot OEMs, resellers, and integrators to deploy RIS in diverse verticals including automotive, pharma, electronics, and critical infrastructure.
4. Long-Term Impact – Position Alias Robotics as a strategic EU cybersecurity player, driving the standard for robot protection globally and ensuring that EU-made technology leads this emerging market.
Strategic & Political Relevance
The project directly aligns with European strategic goals:
- It supports the Cybersecurity Act and Cyber Resilience Act by developing certified, resilient cybersecurity technology for critical automation systems.
- It strengthens European technological sovereignty, offering a fully EU-developed alternative to foreign (mainly US) cybersecurity solutions.
- It contributes to industrial continuity and safety, protecting not only business assets but also human lives in environments where robots work alongside people.
Scale and Significance
The expected impact is substantial:
- Protecting over 3.5 million robots currently deployed globally, with numbers growing rapidly.
- Tapping into a robot cybersecurity market projected to exceed €11.6 billion by 2033, with Alias Robotics aiming to lead a market segment expected to grow at 11% CAGR.
- Creating a world-first product category that can prevent multi-million-euro damages, protect intellectual property, and avoid reputational disasters due to cyberattacks on industrial robots.
In this reporting period the following results have been achieved:
- Accomplishment of the first two temporal milestones (MS2 and MS3)
- Succesfully delivered 6 deliverables. (2 Month 6 and 4 on M12)
- 1 high impact non-peer reviewed publication has been submitted to Arxiv and published.
- An Open source item has been made available for the community (CAI) in Github, with more than 1300 stars. https://github.com/aliasrobotics/cai(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)
- Direct engagement of the required stakeholders (Denso, Taurob, ABB, Mercedes, Johnshon and Johnson, Telefonica, Vicrila and HPE, among others).
WP specific work has included:
- WP1 has yielded a full scalable SW architechture at the RIS core software stack and the needed developments to fit in the new modules, including the groundbreaking GenAI based cybersecurity module (agentic tool) called CAI, able to automate some aspects of robot cybersecurity and deception, able to deceive cyberattacker to simulated robot instances.
- WP2 has already yielded a first prototype of "RIS edge" hardware that allows our technology to scale to cornercase robots and the required adjacent technology to be deployed at the industrial edge, including our own Model, Alias0 (Model-of-Models LLM) that ensures the privacy and self sovereignty of data.
- WP3 has created the basis for centralized RIS management, connectors to other adyacent solutions and SOCs via APIs and kicked of work in pilots and demo cases in representative environments.
- WP4 has worked in creating grounds for the soft market landing of the project technology, ensuring cooperators, partners and pilots across selected venues with focus in cybersecurity and robotics. Several project partners have been ensured with major robot OEMs and industrial stakeholders. This WP has also ensured smooth alignment with the relevant technical standards, ensuring compliance with technical standard in industrial cybersecurity IEC62443, in particular with part 4 SL1.
- WP5 has looked after the whole project allignment and delivery, including planning of resource consumption, strategic project direction, sound IPR management, successful reporting and excellent project communication.
- Accomplishment of the first two temporal milestones (MS2 and MS3)
- Succesfully delivered 6 deliverables. (2 Month 6 and 4 on M12)
- 1 high impact non-peer reviewed publication has been submitted to Arxiv and published.
- An Open source item has been made available for the community (CAI) in Github, with more than 1300 stars. https://github.com/aliasrobotics/cai(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)
- Direct engagement of the required stakeholders (Denso, Taurob, ABB, Mercedes, Johnshon and Johnson, Telefonica, Vicrila and HPE, among others).
WP specific work has included:
- WP1 has yielded a full scalable SW architechture at the RIS core software stack and the needed developments to fit in the new modules, including the groundbreaking GenAI based cybersecurity module (agentic tool) called CAI, able to automate some aspects of robot cybersecurity and deception, able to deceive cyberattacker to simulated robot instances.
- WP2 has already yielded a first prototype of "RIS edge" hardware that allows our technology to scale to cornercase robots and the required adjacent technology to be deployed at the industrial edge, including our own Model, Alias0 (Model-of-Models LLM) that ensures the privacy and self sovereignty of data.
- WP3 has created the basis for centralized RIS management, connectors to other adyacent solutions and SOCs via APIs and kicked of work in pilots and demo cases in representative environments.
- WP4 has worked in creating grounds for the soft market landing of the project technology, ensuring cooperators, partners and pilots across selected venues with focus in cybersecurity and robotics. Several project partners have been ensured with major robot OEMs and industrial stakeholders. This WP has also ensured smooth alignment with the relevant technical standards, ensuring compliance with technical standard in industrial cybersecurity IEC62443, in particular with part 4 SL1.
- WP5 has looked after the whole project allignment and delivery, including planning of resource consumption, strategic project direction, sound IPR management, successful reporting and excellent project communication.
The project has yielded a series of results that have significantly pushed SOTA.
- Developed the first fully scalable robot cybersecurity architecture, enabling RIS to support multiple vendors and OSs efficiently.
- Created the first hardware RIS agent, allowing protection of legacy robots (>25% of the market).
- Released the first Cybersecurity AI (CAI) for robots — partially open source and now adopted as a de facto standard. CAI performs robot security testing up to 500x faster and 10x cheaper than manual methods.
- Designed Alias0, a privacy-first Model-of-Models LLM ensuring no pilot or client cybersecurity data is shared externally.
- Introduced centralized fleet-level robot cybersecurity with integration and MSSP readiness — addressing a major unfilled need.
- Embedded cybersecurity into DevOps practices and began formal alignment for IEC 62443-4-2 certification.
- Developed the first fully scalable robot cybersecurity architecture, enabling RIS to support multiple vendors and OSs efficiently.
- Created the first hardware RIS agent, allowing protection of legacy robots (>25% of the market).
- Released the first Cybersecurity AI (CAI) for robots — partially open source and now adopted as a de facto standard. CAI performs robot security testing up to 500x faster and 10x cheaper than manual methods.
- Designed Alias0, a privacy-first Model-of-Models LLM ensuring no pilot or client cybersecurity data is shared externally.
- Introduced centralized fleet-level robot cybersecurity with integration and MSSP readiness — addressing a major unfilled need.
- Embedded cybersecurity into DevOps practices and began formal alignment for IEC 62443-4-2 certification.