About the name

ELiA Robotics is named after its founder, Nathan Oraile. Read "Oraile" backwards and you get "Eliaro": Eliaro Botics, ELiA Robotics. The small i is a nod to AI, the thing that is turning robots from machines into colleagues. Robotics, explained.

Who makes this

Nathan Oraile is the face and the voice. He runs a company in the Netherlands by day and has followed robotics for years, close enough to know which demos are real and which are marketing. Every video and every story here is his: what you see, what it means, and what to watch next.

How we work

• Videos first. A robot doing something remarkable, and Nathan explaining what you are looking at. No hype words, no clickbait questions.
• The story behind it. Each video links to a short write-up: what happened, why it matters, and a link to the original report.
• Sources, every time. We read the trade press, the companies' own channels and the researchers. We summarize and we link; we never republish someone else's article. Footage and images are credited to the company or publication they came from.
• The weekly. Once a week everything comes together in a digest, free on this site and in your inbox on Substack.

Get in touch

Found a robot we should cover, or a mistake we should fix? Write to hello@eliarobotics.com.