What problem are we solving?

Current robots suck:

• Dumb: good at repetitive tasks, but can’t adapt to new situations
• Difficult: needs to be programmed by experts
• Expensive: often more expensive than doing it manually (for most use-cases)
• Non-autonomous: doesn’t work offline, as inference is not done onboard

Mission

Menlo Research is focused on augmenting humanity with robots that are generally intelligent.

Approach

We solve this incrementally. We productize sub-problems that can solved now , that become key components of our long-term vision.

• Running AI models on edge hardware (Jan, Cortex)
• Multimodal AI for robot-human interaction (Ichigo )
• LLM Hardware
• Teleoperation tools & infra
• Simulation environments
• Affordable robots

We earn the right to build our long-term vision by delivering value to users today.

Vision

We envision an optimistic future  where our children achieve what we dream of today, enabled by exoskeletons and helpful robots.

In the long run, we see robots helping humanity progress into a Type-1 civilization  on the Kardashev scale , by engineering Earth  and becoming a spacefaring civilization.