Social-Emotional Learning Robot for Classrooms

Meet RIA, an educational robot for students. RIA is a classroom robot assistant who never gets tired of helping.

The RIA Difference in Education

RIA blends AI with empathy to support students emotionally and academically. She adapts in real time, helping learners stay engaged, calm, and confident.
  • 24/7 Support — Always available to assist, tutor, or comfort students beyond classroom hours.
  • Boosted Engagement — Keeps students curious and focused, improving learning outcomes in real-world pilots.
  • Empathetic & Patient — Offers calm, non-judgmental repetition and emotional encouragement.
  • Human-like Interaction — With 100+ expressions and natural voice tone, RIA builds trust and emotional connection.
  • Multilingual Inclusion — Communicates in 16+ languages to support diverse learners and English language development.
Empowering Language Learners with Emotionally Intelligent Practice
In Scripps’ orthopedic cancer unit, RIA helped reclaim humanity in medicine. By managing repetitive patient education tasks with emotional intelligence, she gave clinicians more time to truly connect — without compromising care quality or consistency.

  • +2.5 hours/day reclaimed for clinician-patient connection
  • Reduced staff burnout by handling emotional labor
  • Enabled multilingual and emotionally adaptive education
What Educators Are Saying
  • Jonathan Rezach
    Program Manager at UCSD Extended Studies
    “The students were so captivated by RIA that they voluntarily stayed after class, which is unheard of. Not a single person was on their smartphone either. It shows that RIA brought something special to the table.”
  • Patricia Juza
    Associate Dean at UCSD Extended Studies
    “RIA freed up the classroom instructor to do additional feedback in real-time while engaging with the students. We can foresee using her across multiple disciplines – any number of content areas.”
How RIA Helps in the Classroom
Supporting every student — academically, emotionally, and socially.
Meet the team behind Machani Robotics
Extraordinary track record of building successful businesses over 30 years.
  • Ravi Machani
    Founder
    Serial founder, Engineer, MBA
  • Manju Kesani
    Co-founder, CEO
    Engineer, MBA (Wharton)
  • Dr G. Chandrasekhar
    Chief Medical Advisor
    Board Cert. Psychiatrist (Jonhs Hopkins)
  • Niv Sundaram
    Chief Strategy Officer
    Engineer, (Wisconsin, Madison)
  • Aswin Chandarr
    Head of Engineering
    PhD Robotics (Delft)
  • Rahul Chatterjee
    Chief Operating Officer
    Engineer (IISC)
  • Mark Pinnes
    Senior Vice President - Partnerships
    Marketing (London Business School)
  • Mark Joshi
    Chief Experience & Gamification Lead
    PhD study: Gamification for Elderly Care
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Meet the team behind Machani Robotics
Extraordinary track record of building successful businesses.
  • Ravi Machani
    Founder
    Serial founder, Engineer, MBA
  • Manju Kesani
    Co-founder, CEO
    Engineer, MBA (Wharton)
  • Dr G Chandrasekhar
    Chief Medical Advisor
    Psychiatrist
  • Niv Sundaram
    Chief Strategy Officer
    Engineer, (Wisconsin, Madison)
  • Mark Pinnes
    Senior Vice President - Partnerships
  • Aswin Chandarr
    Head of Engineering
  • Ganapathy G. R.
    Chief Financial Officer
  • Mark Joshi
    Chief Experience & Gamification Officer
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