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The Robot Was Ready. The Next Job Wasn’t.
Trener Robotics bets that the expensive part of industrial automation is often the pause between jobs. Its Acteris software lets operators describe a new task, then turns that request into a checked sequence of robot skills.
General Robotics
General Robotics is a Kirkland, Washington startup building general-purpose intelligence for robots. Its flagship GRID platform delivers modular, composable AI skills - perception, reasoning, and control - that deploy across humanoids, arms, quadrupeds, wheeled and aerial robots in minutes, without local GPUs. Founded in 2023 (originally Scaled Foundations) by a team of ex-Microsoft AI researchers, the company argues that robot intelligence emerges from composing many reusable skills rather than from one ever-larger model.
Ashish Kapoor
Ashish Kapoor is the co-founder and CEO of General Robotics (formerly Scaled Foundations), a Redmond, Washington startup building a unified intelligence layer for robots of every shape. After 17 years at Microsoft, where he led the Autonomous Systems and Robotics Research group, created the open-source AirSim simulator, and co-authored the widely read 'ChatGPT for Robotics' paper, Kapoor set out in 2023 to make robot intelligence portable across hardware. His thesis: general intelligence emerges from the rich composition of many robot skills, not from a single ever-larger model. He holds a PhD from the MIT Media Lab, flies and has built his own airplane, and treats simulation as the laboratory where machines learn to be safe before they touch the real world.