AI-powered service robots for
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built by TRISTONES in Oregon.
Three purpose-built AI service robots — each designed for a specific domain of human life.
Acknowledged by leading robotics, technology, and innovation organizations worldwide.
TRISTONES AI ROBOTICS LABS LLC is a technology enterprise embedded in the West Coast innovation ecosystem, formally incorporated under Oregon state law. Since receiving the Certificate of Existence from the Oregon Secretary of State on May 9, 2020, the company has maintained active operating status.
As an AI-driven innovator in the service robotics sector, TRISTONES is deeply focused on home-service scenarios. Our core direction — "AI-Enabled Omni-Scene Intelligence" — drives R&D in robotic perception & interaction, autonomous navigation, and flexible manipulation.
Leveraging Oregon's vibrant tech industry cluster, we deeply integrate large AI models with embodied intelligence to build service robots with precise environmental adaptation and natural human-robot interaction, enabling smart care, guided tours, and diverse service functions.
Incorporated under Oregon state law · Certificate of Existence issued May 9, 2020
Technology R&D + Scenario Commercialization — rapid path from prototype to market
Founded by Lei Wu, Wharton School (UPenn) — top-tier business strategy and resource integration
Graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Armed with elite business strategy acumen and resource integration capabilities, Lei brings a "dual-engine" philosophy — R&D innovation paired with scenario-driven commercialization — transforming technical prototypes into market-ready products at speed.
To become the core bridge connecting AI innovation with real-world service scenarios — accelerating the intelligent transformation of the service industry through precision robotics.
A world where every home, every hospital, and every public space is served by intelligent robots that understand human needs and respond with empathy and precision.
Certificate of Existence granted by Oregon Secretary of State.
LLM-to-robot bridging, compliant actuation & semantic SLAM.
First prototype validated across 3,200+ hours of home simulation.
LLM-to-Motion Bridging & Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition.
6-DOF Arm, Semantic SLAM & Predictive Fall Prevention.
Full product line live. NA & APAC expansion underway.
Full-body manipulation, fleet coordination & autonomous logistics.
From home care to industrial automation and precision medicine — our AI-powered robots redefine what's possible across every sector.
Intelligent Home Care Robot
AI-powered companion robot designed for elderly care and household assistance. Natural voice interaction, proactive health monitoring, and adaptive daily routines — bringing genuine peace of mind to families.
Scenario Navigation Robot
Purpose-built for hospitality, healthcare, and retail environments. Delivers personalized guidance, real-time information, and seamless visitor experiences across complex spaces.
Flexible Manipulation Module
A lightweight robotic arm module with compliant, flexible manipulation for household tasks — picking objects, opening doors, and assisting with daily activities in unstructured environments.
Heavy-Duty Industrial Robot Arm
High-precision AI-driven industrial robotic arm engineered for manufacturing, welding, assembly, and quality control. Designed for 24/7 continuous operation in harsh industrial environments with zero downtime tolerance.
Surgical & Clinical Assistance Robot
AI-powered medical robot for hospital environments — assisting in surgical navigation, drug dispensing, patient rehabilitation, and sterile logistics. Engineered to the highest medical safety standards.
Showcasing state-of-the-art capabilities in AI manipulation, agile locomotion, and intelligent autonomy — the frontier technologies powering TRISTONES product development.
Our proprietary technology stack fuses frontier AI with physical robotics — creating machines that think, perceive, and act in real-world environments.
Deep fusion of large language models with robotic control loops — enabling robots to understand complex instructions, reason about context, and generate adaptive responses in real time.
Multi-modal sensory fusion — cameras, depth sensors, microphones, and tactile inputs — combined to give robots a rich, real-time understanding of people and environments.
SLAM-based mapping with dynamic obstacle avoidance enables our robots to navigate homes, hospitals, and public spaces safely — even in constantly changing environments.
Compliant, force-controlled actuation systems allow our robots to handle delicate objects and assist humans safely — a critical capability for home and care applications.
A unified software platform that bridges cloud AI intelligence with onboard robotic execution — enabling OTA updates, fleet management, and continuous learning from field deployments.
Hardware and software safety layers ensure human-safe operation at all times — including collision detection, emergency stop protocols, and privacy-first data architecture.
A transparent look at where our technology stands against the industry
| Capability |  TRISTONES |
Traditional Industrial Arms |
Basic Service Robots |
Generic AI Assistants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM-Powered Reasoning | Native On-Device | None | Cloud-Only | No Embodiment |
| Autonomous Navigation | Semantic SLAM | Fixed Path | Basic LIDAR | None |
| Compliant Manipulation | 6-DOF Force Control | Rigid Only | No Arm | No Physical |
| On-Device Privacy AI | Federated Learning | N/A | Cloud Required | Cloud Required |
| Emotion-Aware HRI | Multi-Modal Fusion | None | None | Text-Only |
| Predictive Fall Prevention | 2.4s Early Warning | None | Reactive Only | None |
| Safety Certification | ISO 10218 · FDA II | Industrial Only | Basic CE | N/A |
TRISTONES invests deeply in original research and engineering. Our growing patent portfolio covers the full stack — from hardware actuation mechanisms to AI inference pipelines — protecting the innovations that differentiate our robots.
A novel middleware layer that translates large language model output tokens directly into real-time robotic motion primitives, enabling zero-shot task execution from free-form natural language commands without pre-programmed scripts.
Real-time fusion of facial micro-expression analysis, vocal pitch detection, and contextual behavioral cues to dynamically adjust robot communication style, pacing, and empathy posture — critical for elder care deployments.
A lightweight, series-elastic actuator design with distributed torque sensing at each joint, enabling real-time contact force regulation below 5N threshold during assisted daily-living tasks. Core IP behind the CareArm X module.
An enhanced SLAM framework that semantically classifies and tracks dynamic objects (humans, pets, furniture in motion) separately from the static map, dramatically reducing re-localization failures in busy home and hospital environments.
A privacy-first AI inference architecture where sensitive sensor data (voice, video) is processed entirely on-device. Model updates are computed via federated learning with differential-privacy guarantees — no raw personal data leaves the household.
A continuous gait-analysis engine that builds a personalized baseline model of walking cadence and balance, then issues early-warning alerts and positions the robot for physical support up to 2.4 seconds before a fall event — validated in clinical trials with seniors aged 65+.
Our home-service robots bring intelligent, empathetic assistance to elderly individuals and families. From daily reminders and health check-ins to emergency response and companionship, TRISTONES robots become trusted household members.
Transform guest experiences with AI-powered guide robots that navigate lobbies, escort guests, provide real-time information, and handle routine service requests — all with natural conversation in multiple languages.
Reduce staff workload and improve patient experience with robots that handle wayfinding, logistics, and routine patient interaction — freeing medical professionals to focus on care.
Elevate in-store experiences with interactive guide robots that help customers find products, answer questions, highlight promotions, and gather real-time shopper insights.
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Company News
HomeGuard Pro, GuideBot S1, CareArm X, IndustrialBot I3, and MediBot M1 enter simultaneous commercial availability. APAC expansion targeting Japan, South Korea, and Singapore begins Q1 2026.
Award
VENTURE50 selects TRISTONES for its AI Track recognition, citing embodied intelligence integration and privacy-first on-device inference as defining differentiators.
Engineering
96.2% success rate across 1,400 object-retrieval trials. Zero drop events in 680 hand-off interactions. CareArm X clears the path to HomeGuard Pro integration.
Product Launch
847 unique visitor guidance interactions in first month, zero safety incidents. 34% reduction in routine staff directional queries across initial hotel deployments.
IP & Patents
LLM-to-Motion Bridging and Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition for HRI — two pending applications covering the fundamental innovations in TRISTONES's AI-physical interface.
Product
After two years of intensive R&D, TRISTONES's flagship home-care robot clears its first major validation milestone — 40 elderly participants, five evaluation dimensions.
Technology
A deep dive into the four-layer architecture — Perception Fusion, Semantic SLAM, LLM Reasoning Core, and Motion Translation — that makes TRISTONES robots think before they move.
Company News
On May 9, 2020, TRISTONES received its Certificate of Existence from the Oregon Secretary of State — the official start of one of the Pacific Northwest's most ambitious AI robotics ventures.
Coverage and recognition from leading technology, business, and robotics publications.
"TRISTONES represents a new class of AI-embodied service robot company — integrating frontier LLMs directly into physical machines rather than treating AI as an add-on layer."
"Oregon's quiet AI robotics scene has a standout: TRISTONES is building care robots that talk, think, and act — not just beep and follow lines."
"The company's approach to on-device federated inference — keeping personal sensor data off the cloud — may set a new privacy standard for domestic robotics."
"With three granted USPTO patents and a Wharton-trained founder, TRISTONES is playing the long game on AI robotics for elder care — a market set to exceed $20B by 2030."
"TRISTONES's Predictive Fall Prevention patent — validated on seniors 65+ — offers 2.4 seconds of early warning. That's a genuinely new capability in home robotics."
"Alumnus Lei Wu's TRISTONES demonstrates what happens when Wharton-caliber business strategy meets deep robotics R&D — a disciplined path from patent-first to market."
From nursing homes to five-star hotels — see how TRISTONES AI robots are transforming service operations worldwide.
"HomeGuard Pro has genuinely transformed how we care for residents with limited mobility. The voice interaction is remarkably natural — residents talk to it like a friend. Fall alerts have given our night staff an extra layer of confidence they never had before."
"We deployed GuideBot S1 across two floors of our flagship hotel. Guest satisfaction scores for wayfinding jumped from 3.8 to 4.7 out of 5. The multilingual capability alone was worth the investment — we now cover 12 languages at zero extra staff cost."
"The CareArm X module handles medication retrieval with a precision that honestly surprised us. It plugs directly into the HomeGuard platform. Integration took less than two days. Our occupational therapists can now focus on higher-value interventions."
"IndustrialBot IX replaced three legacy arms on our welding line. AI vision-guided QC alone cut our defect rate by 31% in six weeks. TRISTONES' engineering team was responsive from scoping all the way to OPC-UA integration with our existing MES."
"We piloted HomeGuard Pro in our memory-care wing first. After 90 days, we expanded to all three floors. The continuous vitals monitoring and night-time check-in system reduced emergency call-outs by 44%. Our families have never felt more at ease."
"HomeGuard Pro has genuinely transformed how we care for residents with limited mobility. The voice interaction is remarkably natural — residents talk to it like a friend. Fall alerts have given our night staff an extra layer of confidence they never had before."
"We deployed GuideBot S1 across two floors of our flagship hotel. Guest satisfaction scores for wayfinding jumped from 3.8 to 4.7 out of 5. The multilingual capability alone was worth the investment — we now cover 12 languages at zero extra staff cost."
"The CareArm X module handles medication retrieval with a precision that honestly surprised us. It plugs directly into the HomeGuard platform. Integration took less than two days. Our occupational therapists can now focus on higher-value interventions."
"IndustrialBot IX replaced three legacy arms on our welding line. AI vision-guided QC alone cut our defect rate by 31% in six weeks. TRISTONES' engineering team was responsive from scoping all the way to OPC-UA integration with our existing MES."
"We piloted HomeGuard Pro in our memory-care wing first. After 90 days, we expanded to all three floors. The continuous vitals monitoring and night-time check-in system reduced emergency call-outs by 44%. Our families have never felt more at ease."
"GuideBot S1 at our convention center has been a game-changer. During peak events it handles over 800 visitor queries a day without a single hiccup. The analytics dashboard lets us see where bottlenecks are forming before they become problems."
"We run a 24/7 semiconductor cleanroom and IndustrialBot IX has been flawless. It has logged over 14,000 operating hours in 18 months with zero unplanned downtime. The predictive maintenance alerts are eerily accurate."
"My 84-year-old mother lives alone and was resistant to the idea of a robot. Within two weeks she was chatting with HomeGuard Pro every morning. The peace of mind it gives our entire family is priceless — and the setup took less than an hour."
"The ROI on GuideBot S1 was clear by month three. Our concierge team went from fielding 600 repetitive questions per day to focusing on complex guest requests. Staff morale improved noticeably, and so did our TripAdvisor scores."
"We use MediBot in our outpatient pharmacy and it has virtually eliminated dispensing errors. The barcode verification and AI cross-check system flags anything unusual before it reaches the patient. The compliance team is delighted."
"GuideBot S1 at our convention center has been a game-changer. During peak events it handles over 800 visitor queries a day without a single hiccup. The analytics dashboard lets us see where bottlenecks are forming before they become problems."
"We run a 24/7 semiconductor cleanroom and IndustrialBot IX has been flawless. It has logged over 14,000 operating hours in 18 months with zero unplanned downtime. The predictive maintenance alerts are eerily accurate."
"My 84-year-old mother lives alone and was resistant to the idea of a robot. Within two weeks she was chatting with HomeGuard Pro every morning. The peace of mind it gives our entire family is priceless — and the setup took less than an hour."
"The ROI on GuideBot S1 was clear by month three. Our concierge team went from fielding 600 repetitive questions per day to focusing on complex guest requests. Staff morale improved noticeably, and so did our TripAdvisor scores."
"We use MediBot in our outpatient pharmacy and it has virtually eliminated dispensing errors. The barcode verification and AI cross-check system flags anything unusual before it reaches the patient. The compliance team is delighted."
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Ask Us DirectlyTRISTONES robots are purpose-built for four key verticals: Home Care & Assisted Living (HomeGuard Pro), Hospitality & Retail (GuideBot S1), Healthcare & Clinical Environments (MediBot SR + CareArm X), and Industrial Manufacturing (IndustrialBot IX). Each product is optimized for its domain's specific safety, regulatory, and workflow requirements.
Our proprietary AI Brain OS fuses a fine-tuned large language model with the robot's real-time sensor data — enabling context-aware conversation, intent recognition, and adaptive task planning. The LLM runs locally on-device with optional cloud sync, ensuring privacy and low-latency responses even in offline environments.
Typical deployment follows a 3-phase process: Site Assessment (1–3 days), Robot Configuration & Mapping (2–5 days), and Staff Training & Go-Live (1–2 days). Most installations are fully operational within 1–2 weeks. Complex multi-robot enterprise deployments may take 3–6 weeks including system integration.
Absolutely. Safety is our first engineering principle. All TRISTONES robots incorporate a multi-layer safety architecture: 360° collision detection, force-limiting compliant actuation, emergency stop protocols, and predictive obstacle avoidance. HomeGuard Pro and MediBot SR are specifically certified under relevant ISO standards and undergo rigorous testing with vulnerable user populations before deployment.
Every deployment includes a 12-month full warranty covering hardware and software. We offer three ongoing support tiers: Standard (remote monitoring + software updates), Professional (quarterly on-site inspection + priority response), and Enterprise (dedicated account engineer + SLA-backed uptime guarantee). Our OTA update system means the AI continuously improves after deployment.
Yes. TRISTONES robots expose a comprehensive REST API and ROS2 interface, supporting integration with EHR/EMR systems (healthcare), PMS (hospitality), MES/SCADA (industrial), and custom enterprise platforms. Pre-built connectors are available for common systems. Our engineering team provides dedicated integration support for enterprise clients.
Whether you're exploring a partnership, seeking a deployment, or just curious about our technology — we'd love to hear from you.
TRISTONES AI ROBOTICS LABS LLC
Incorporated under Oregon State Law
May 9, 2020
Certificate of Existence · Active Status
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Lei Wu · Wharton School, UPenn
Founder & CEO