Overview
Asim is building standardized benchmarks for physical intelligence, helping robotics companies understand their robots’ capabilities and safety limits before deployment.
We test real robots under changing physical conditions, varying shape, weight, friction and material, to identify where performance breaks down and give engineers actionable feedback.
Our four founders include three PhD researchers, two specializing in robotics, with backgrounds at Sony and NASA JPL and two RoboCup@Home championship wins.
Our ambition is to become the standard robotics teams use to measure progress and assess readiness for deployment.
Founders & team
Douglas Tilley
Founder/CEOFounder at Asim. PhD candidate in AI with Robotics at the University of Bath. Previously ML researcher at National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo) and Tianjin University. 3x Doctoral Recognition Award Winner. Researcher on Safe Wearable Robots with multiple papers in Hierarchical Machine Learning, Robot Learning and Out-of-Distribution detection.
Tristan Lecourtois
Founder/COOFounder at Asim (YC F26). Ex NASA JPL, MS from ENS Paris-Saclay.
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Last website check2026-11-11
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