ALIAS ROBOTICS S.L.

Their core work

Alias Robotics is a Spanish cybersecurity SME with a narrow but distinctive specialty: protecting robotic systems from cyber threats. Their core product concept — a "Robot Immune System" — applies endpoint security thinking to robots, treating robotic platforms as infrastructure that needs hardening rather than just programming. They work specifically with ROS (Robot Operating System), the dominant open-source middleware in robotics, and focus on securing it for deployment in sensitive environments. Their most recent work targets healthcare settings, where robots handling patient data and navigating hospital environments must meet strict privacy and security requirements.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

The 2019 RIS project had no descriptive keywords — it was a proof-of-concept phase focused on defining the Robot Immune System idea and winning early SME Instrument validation. By 2021, the RESPECT project shows a sharp technical crystallisation: cyber-security, ROS, system hardening, eHealth, EHR, and indoor navigation all appear together, indicating the team moved from abstract concept to a concrete applied stack in a specific vertical. The trajectory is a classic SME path — broad concept validated early, then narrowed to a defensible niche (healthcare robotics security) with a real customer problem.

They are moving deeper into regulated environments — hospitals, patient data, indoor autonomous navigation — where cybersecurity requirements are non-negotiable and the barrier to entry for competitors is high.

How they like to work

Alias Robotics has played both roles: leading their own early-stage project (RIS as coordinator) and joining a larger research consortium as a specialist partner (RESPECT under MSCA-RISE). Their consortium sizes are small — 10 unique partners across 2 projects — suggesting they work in focused, technical teams rather than large multi-partner alliances. As an SME with niche expertise, they most likely enter consortia to provide the cybersecurity and ROS hardening component that academic or industrial partners lack in-house.

They have collaborated with 10 unique partners across 5 countries, a modest but geographically distributed network for a 2-project SME. No single-country concentration is evident, suggesting they actively seek European partnerships rather than relying on domestic networks.

What sets them apart

Alias Robotics occupies a rare intersection: they are neither a general cybersecurity firm nor a general robotics company, but one of very few organisations treating robot platforms as security-critical infrastructure. Their Robot Immune System framing gives them a distinctive intellectual brand that resonates with both the robotics community (familiar with ROS vulnerabilities) and the security community (familiar with endpoint hardening). For a consortium building a project around autonomous systems in regulated environments — hospitals, factories, critical infrastructure — they bring a combination that is difficult to replicate with a generalist partner.

Highlights from their portfolio

• RIS
  As coordinator and sole driver of this SME Instrument Phase 1 project, Alias Robotics used RIS to define and validate the Robot Immune System concept — the intellectual foundation for all their subsequent work.
• RESPECT
  Their largest and longest project (2021-2024, EUR 73,600), RESPECT demonstrates their evolution into applied healthcare robotics security, combining ROS hardening with EHR privacy and indoor navigation in a hospital context.