Menu
NREC works with organizations from many industries to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Engaging with a team of experts at NREC is easy and follows a proven process.
What’s your business case?
With NREC’s technology and expertise, we can solve the majority of problems brought to us. Therefore, the most critical aspect of the assessment step is to look at the business case related to the problem. This is done in partnership with the client.
Innovation and Rapid Fielding
With the vast technology available at NREC and our unique expertise, we can quickly bring innovative robotic systems and technology to the field.
Our proven INNOVATE™ process combines dedicated listening and understanding of your needs, cutting-edge technology, experts engineering a solution, as well as experienced technology transfer and commercialization support for maximum success.
1. Assess the Problem and Objectives
2. Analyze the Technical and Business Requirements
3. Invent Technology
4. Develop Prototype System
5. Validate, Test & Demonstrate
6. Engineer
7. License IP and Transfer Technology
8. Support Commercialization
We assess your needs, both from a business and technological standpoint and develop early concepts of solutions to showcase feasibility.
We visit one or more of your facilities, assess several problems or needs, perform requirement analysis and generate conceptual designs.
Feasibility analysis, conceptual designs and detailed development roadmap.
Development projects are where most of the innovation happens and provide a prototype solution that you can evaluate for field readiness or commercial viability. Our team can rapidly develop a feasibility prototype or engineer a mature, production-intent prototype.
We generate conceptual designs, develop prototypes and perform cycles of testing, evaluation and engineering improvements.
A prototype solution with a demonstration in your operations.
A detailed test report.
First right of refusal on an exclusive license.
As part of our INNOVATE™ process and our licensing, we provide support for the subsequent commercialization steps to ensure successful deployment of the solution to the market and/or the client’s operations. Our agreement provides a non-exclusive license to the IP created during the project and the client can elect to negotiate an exclusive license.
We negotiate a license with the client and provide support for commercialization.
We can also help select a robotic manufacturer if needed.
The client has 180 days to decide on an exclusive license, which is normally sufficient to negotiate the license agreement.
The royalty for the exclusive license is based on fair-market value and negotiated with the client.
(Optional) An exclusive license.
Documentation, source code, drawings, schematics and bill of material for manufacturing and commercialization
National Robotics Engineering Center
10 40th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
+1 (412) 681-6900
