Aro

Aro builds multitasking autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) designed to augment human labor in industrial environments. Its flagship robot, the Aro-S, acts as a modular platform capable of switching jobs throughout the day: moving inventory in the morning, cleaning floors at night, and performing complex tasks like 3D scanning and spraying through the aro-manipulator arm module. Payloads like the aro-shelf and a growing set of third-party integrations turn Aro’s bots into flexible tools for a wide range of facility needs. The company emphasizes ease of use, versatility, and real-world impact for businesses priced out of traditional robotics.

Aro offers its robots through either direct purchase or a monthly subscription, aiming to price them at 60–70% of the cost of a full-time employee. This flexible approach makes robotics adoption feasible for smaller industrial operators who can’t afford in-house engineering or infrastructure overhauls. The robots are built to work safely alongside humans and are often deployed in partnership with other startups, demonstrating their modularity and ecosystem potential.

“We’re at the same moment with robotics that we were with mainframe computers in the ’50s—powerful tools available only to the largest enterprises,” says co-founder and CEO Faheem Khan. “Our mission is to change that. We want to make AI-enabled robots accessible to the rest of the world: affordable, adaptable, and designed to do more than one job. Subscription hardware models allow us to do just that.”