Robotics

Hebbian Robotics

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Hebbian Robotics builds open source foundational infrastructure for Physical AI to develop robots that extend what humanity can do, for the benefit of the communities they serve.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Vanda Labs

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Brandon Ong

Founder/CEO

Brandon led AI at LionsBot (series B robotics startup) that deploys industrial cleaning robots globally and did foundation model research that topped Stanford’s AI benchmark (SEA-HELM), co-created with Percy Liang's group. He previously co-founded Gigit AI as CTO, backed by Sequoia India, where he was one of the first to train LLMs for Southeast Asian languages. He dropped out of his joint PhD in Robotics at Columbia and NTU to work on Hebbian, and was a national athlete in two sports.

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Kingston Kuan

Founder/CTO

Kingston spent the last few years at Jane Street building systems that scaled to millions of messages per second. He graduated valedictorian from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Computer Engineering.

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2team members reported
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Founded 2026 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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