Today, RIF Robotics becomes Methotic.
Methodical + robotic.
The most important department you've never heard of
Before a surgeon makes the first cut, someone in the hospital's sterile processing department (SPD) has decontaminated, inspected, counted, and assembled every scalpel, clamp, and retractor in the tray. Hundreds of instruments. Every case. Every day. Get it right and nobody notices. Get it wrong (a missing instrument, a damaged tip, a bit of bioburden someone didn't catch) and a patient waits on the table while the OR hunts for a replacement.
The people doing this work are skilled and overstretched, and there aren't enough of them. Annual turnover for the average SPD is over 40%. Surgical volumes keep climbing. The headcount doesn't.
What Methotic actually does
Our first product, PacR, is an AI-powered robotic system that automates surgical instrument inspection and tray assembly. It uses computer vision to check each instrument and adaptive path planning to build trays accurately and consistently in hospital SPDs, off-site reprocessing centers, ambulatory surgical centers, and third-party logistics providers. It's offered as Robotics-as-a-Service and installs in a day.
PacR takes on the repetitive, high-volume work: the counting, the sorting, the squinting at serrations under a lamp at 2 a.m. That frees certified technicians to do the work that takes judgment: troubleshooting, quality control, and keeping the OR running.
That's the business we're in. Not reducing the force. Multiplying it.
Why "methodical" beats "disruptive"
Silicon Valley loves the word disruption. In an operating room, disruption is a euphemism for a delayed case.
Hospitals don't want a moonshot. They want the same right answer, every tray, every shift. That's what methodical means: rigor, repeatability, and an obsession with the boring details that keep patients safe. We'd rather be the most reliable company in the building than the most interesting one.
What changes, and what doesn't
The name changes. The logo changes. The website moves to Methotic.ai.
The team, the product, our customers and partners, and our commitment to the people who work in sterile processing stay exactly the same. Existing agreements carry over with no action needed.
About Methotic
Methotic (formerly RIF Robotics) is an Atlanta-based healthcare robotics company bringing physical AI to surgical instrument reprocessing. Its flagship system, PacR, combines computer vision and adaptive path planning to automate instrument inspection and tray assembly for hospital sterile processing departments, off-site reprocessing centers, ambulatory surgical centers and 3PL providers. Methotic builds technology that amplifies the skilled people behind every surgery. Learn more at Methotic.ai.
Media Contact
Kevin DeMarco
Co-Founder and CEO
kevin.demarco@methotic.ai