
Before he co-founded Trener Robotics, Asad Tirmizi studied how machines communicate through touch. Now he wants factory robots to learn enough about a job that people can stop explaining every movement.
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.

After years spent studying how people and machines share control, the Boston roboticist built Southie Autonomy around a stubbornly practical idea: the person on the line should be able to teach the robot.