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Human Intelligence for Robots

Spring 2026Founded 20265 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Robotic Embodied AISaaSRobotics companies and manufacturersMedium competition
Moat
General robot learning on any hardware is defensible if generalization outperforms task-specific training.
Key risk
Robotics companies building internal AI; general intelligence may not transfer across hardware efficiently.
Why now
Multi-modal AI and simulation enable training general robotic intelligence at scale.
Competitors
Cobot, Boston Dynamics AI, In-house robotics AI

About

Robotics is the new paradigm. With hardware converging, Intelligence is the biggest bottleneck. Our world was built for humans and we're giving robots the ability to reason and act like us. The way we learn any task - by seeing, doing, and feeling - is how we train robots. We're building general intelligence that works on any robot and fits seamlessly within our world.

Founders ยท 2

Jalaj Shukla
Jalaj ShuklaFounder
UPenn

Co-founder and CTO of Intelligence Factory - Unlocking Robotics Previously: MTS (Manipulation, VLA, Controls) at Dimensional, Sr. Robotics Engineer (Manipulation) at Blue Sky Robotics, CV Engineer at Applied Materials, R&D SWE at Ansys. MS in Robotics & Mechatronics from UPenn, GRASP Lab RA on multimodal manipulation policies. Earlier, worked as Research Fellow at DRDO, Ministry of Defence. Love cooking and exploring new places, active meditator and poet.

Yash Sinha
Yash SinhaFounder
ETH Zurich

Co-founder and CEO - Intelligence Factory. Robotics ETH Zurich. Ex-Founder/CTO Kaio Labs. F1 Simulation Engineer. On a mission to unlock generalized robotics.

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