Robotics

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

Overview

Making robot post-training and deployment scalable.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Bitstream

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Bill Jiao

Founder/CEO

worked on Siemens' first multimodal foundation model, secured 2 patents on tardigrade proteins as a junior in high school, now building edge intelligence for physical AI.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Guanming Wang

Founder/CTO

Building inference infrastructure for robotic world models. Former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning researcher with robotics research published at ICRA at age 17. Previously conducted robotics research at UCL and Tsinghua University.

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

Founded 2026 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Hacker News · Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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