Origami Robotics

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Manipulate Anything Robot

Winter 2026Founded 20265 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Dexterous Manipulation RobotsHardwareManufacturers, logistics centers, warehouse automationHigh competition

Moat

Proprietary data-collection device + direct-drive hand design; real-world data from deployed units; embodiment gap elimination.

Key risk

High capex and long ROI timelines; competition from Boston Dynamics, Tesla Optimus; data moat requires massive deployment scale.

Why now

Labor shortages and wage inflation in manufacturing/logistics; foundation models now capable of learning manipulation at scale.

Competitors

Boston Dynamics, Tesla Optimus, Sanctuary AI, Universal Robots (UR)

About

We are building a "manipulate anything" model with the robot hardware that embodies it. We designed a hand-based data-collection device and a high DOF, direct drive robotic hand that match each other exactly, enabling us to eliminate embodiment gap and collect real-world data and deploy it directly. We want to scale real world manipulation data by deploying our devices "in the wild" like manufacturing factories, logistic centers to collect Tesla like data, use these data to train our model and then provide automation solutions to these industries.