Dec 14, 2020
Madrid/Vitoria-Gasteiz, 14 December 2020 - Telefónica has reached an agreement with Alias Robotics with the aim of leading the robotic cybersecurity market. This Spanish company is the creator of the first RIS (Robot Immune System), a smart antivirus that protects robots from cybercriminals.
The agreement includes an investment led by Wayra, Telefónica s global open innovation hub, an investment that will be integrated into the portfolio of Telefónica Tech Ventures, its new investment vehicle for cyber security startups.
The partnership with Telefónica, with its notable leadership in the IoT (Internet of Things) and cybersecurity markets, will enable Alias Robotics to create “a strategic agreement between two leading companies, raising our product (RIS) to the next level and serving more users”, according to Endika Gil-Uriarte, the CEO of Alias, who stated that “current-day robotics is extremely vulnerable and insecure, just as PCs were 20 years ago, and thi