Aurelian vs Hermes Robotics

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Aurelian is a public safety AI company automating non-emergency 911 call handling — deploying AI voice agents that take caller information, gather incident details, and resolve or route non-emergency police, fire, and EMS requests without requiring a human dispatcher's time, allowing dispatch centers to focus on genuine emergencies requiring immediate human judgment. Founded and backed by Y Combinator and NEA, Aurelian raised a $14 million Series A led by NEA in August 2025, serving nearly 5 million Americans across 12+ agencies and achieving 74% average call automation with 3 hours saved per dispatcher daily.\n\nAurelian's AI handles non-emergency calls — noise complaints, minor property damage, requests for police reports, abandoned vehicle reports, and other routine situations that don't require immediate emergency dispatch. The system gathers structured incident information through conversational AI, routes genuine emergencies to human dispatchers immediately, and allows non-emergency situations to be handled asynchronously. This addresses a critical problem: 911 call centers in the US receive millions of non-emergency calls annually, creating backlogs that delay responses to genuine emergencies.\n\nIn 2025, Aurelian competes in the public safety communications technology market with Motorola Solutions (the dominant dispatch technology provider), RapidSOS, and emerging AI public safety platforms for 911 center modernization. The 911 system infrastructure in the United States is chronically underfunded and understaffed — many dispatch centers run with 15-30% staffing shortfalls, making AI automation of non-emergency call volume a genuine operational necessity rather than an optional improvement. The NEA Series A investment validates the market opportunity and Aurelian's early traction. The 2025 strategy focuses on growing from the current 12+ agencies to 50+ agency deployments, demonstrating measurable response time improvements for emergencies, and building the evidence base needed for adoption by larger metropolitan dispatch centers.