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Intrinsic wants robots to stop needing a specialist for every new job
Google’s robotics software group is betting that the expensive part of automation is teaching the machine. Its answer combines reusable skills, a virtual workcell and an unexpectedly useful respect for loose cables.
Trevor Blackwell and the Art of Staying Upright
He helped put shops on the web, startups on a new footing and robots on two uncertain legs. Across three decades, Trevor Blackwell has kept returning to the same absorbing question: how do you make an unstable system work?
Daryl Lim
Daryl Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Augmentus, a no-code robotics company that lets factory operators program industrial robots by 3D-scanning a part instead of writing code or CAD. Founded in Singapore in 2019 and now US-headquartered near Austin, Texas, Augmentus targets surface finishing, sanding, welding and spray coating for high-mix manufacturing. A serial entrepreneur since his teens, Lim was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2022 and has raised roughly $16-17M across seed and Series A rounds, including an $11M round in July 2025.
Augmentus
Augmentus is a Singapore- and Texas-based robotics software company that makes industrial robots as easy to program as a smartphone. Its no-code platform pairs industrial 3D scanning, AI-driven path planning and adaptive motion control to auto-generate robot programs for surface finishing, welding, shot peening and material removal - turning weeks of manual programming into minutes. Founded in 2019, it sells a B2B software licensing product used at 50+ production sites across aerospace, heavy industry and energy in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Realtime Robotics, Inc.
Realtime Robotics is a Boston-based deep-tech company that gives industrial and collaborative robots the ability to plan collision-free motion in real time. Spun out of DARPA-funded research at Duke University in 2016, its RapidPlan software and RapidSense perception system let robots generate and adjust their own paths in microseconds, cutting the time and cost of programming, deploying, and coordinating multiple robots in a shared workspace. Its technology is used by manufacturers including the BMW Group, and the company is backed by strategic investors such as Mitsubishi Electric, HAHN Automation, and SAIC Capital.