The Company

Our client is a vertically integrated robotics company building dexterous factory automation, backed by Jeff Dean, Pieter Abbeel, and senior leaders from OpenAI. This mission demands tight integration across robot learning, hardware, factory operations, and a consumer-facing brand. The founding team includes the creator of the DROID dataset, a 15-year veteran building intelligent factory automation from scratch, a 40-year operator who has built factories from the ground up, and an SVP from a $10B+ global consumer brand.

Our client's thesis: the biggest bottleneck in robot learning is data, and the best way to solve it is to generate it as a byproduct of revenue. They have their own Vietnam factory, where workers use handheld devices shaped like our robot's hands to generate morphology-matched demonstration data at scale through real production work. That data trains the robots that will automate the factory. Experimentation, data collection, ...