Robotics

Cerulion

Website
Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Cerulion is an open source operating system for robots built by 2 MIT robotics PhDs. Engineers at Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute are using us to develop faster and ship more reliable robots than with ROS. With up to 1000x improvements in communications performance over state of the art, Cerulion is enabling the next generation of embodied AI.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously RenardOS

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Lakshay Sharma

Founder/CEO

Lakshay is the cofounder/CEO of robotics middleware startup Cerulion. Prior to this, he studied computer engineering, astrophysics and robotics at the University of Pennsylvania, and researched robot motion planners at MIT.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2024 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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