About Vital Automation

Technician sorting a basket of surgical instruments

Our mission

Vital Automation, LLC is a Wisconsin company developing robotic automation for healthcare support work facing serious workforce shortages. We started with sterile processing because every surgery depends on it, and the people who do it are becoming harder to find and harder to replace. Our mission: give healthcare teams reliable automated help with the essential work behind patient care.

A gloved hand holding dental tools on a tray.

Randall Yale, MD, Founder & CEO

Dr. Yale is an anesthesiologist. In the operating room, he has seen how understaffed and undertrained sterile processing departments lead to delayed and cancelled cases, postponed patient care and lost hospital revenue. He founded Vital Automation to solve that problem at its source.

Set of surgical and dental instruments on purple cloth.

Company facts

Vital Automation, LLC. Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded: 2026. Stage: research and development, self-funded. Focus: robotic automation for hospital sterile processing. Contact: randall.yale@vital-tech.ai

Where we're headed

Our vision

To set a new standard for how hospital support work gets done in the United States, with automation that is safe, reliable and built for the people who rely on it.

Now: build and train

Develop the core robotics and AI platform in simulation.

Next: first pilot

Within 12 to 24 months, deploy with a hospital partner and measure the results on real trays.

Then: scale

Expand to health systems across the country and to more hospital support services.

Advisory board

We are forming an advisory board with expertise in healthcare compliance, robotics engineering and finance. If that's you, we'd like to hear from you.

Work with us

We're looking for a hospital pilot partner and early investors. Reach us through the Contact page or at randall.yale@vital-tech.ai.