# Tutor Intelligence

> Tutor Intelligence builds AI-powered collaborative robots that pick, pack, and palletize alongside people on factory and warehouse floors. Born out of MIT's CSAIL, the company sells robots by the hour - a Robots-as-a-Service model that drops a working robot onto a line in days, not months, with no programming required. Its flagship Cassie handles infinite SKUs at up to 14 cases per minute, while Data Factory 1, a 100-robot facility in a renovated Watertown mill, trains the next generation of factory-ready robot AI on real-world data.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Josh Gruenstein (Co-Founder & CEO), Alon Kosowsky-Sachs (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~110 employees (60+ cited at Series A; figure has since grown), spanning technicians, engineers, researchers, salespeople, data labelers, and operations - plus an international remote teleoperation team.
- **Products:** Cassie, Sonny, Robots-as-a-Service platform, Data Factory 1 (DF1)
- **Notable:** Closed a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures in December 2025, bringing total funding to ~$42M., Launched Data Factory 1, described as the largest robot data factory in the US - ~100 robots producing ~10,000 hours of training data per week., Deployed AI cobots in dozens of factories and warehouses coast to coast.

## Products & services

- **Cassie** — An AI-powered mobile manipulator for material handling - palletizing, depalletizing, and case picking. Handles infinite SKUs with minimal changeover, moves up to 14 cases per minute, lifts boxes up to 50 lb, runs 24/7, and deploys in about two days with no programming.
- **Sonny** — A semi-humanoid robot built for general factory and warehouse manual labor. Deployed at scale inside Data Factory 1 for training; commercial deployment expected to begin in late 2026.
- **Robots-as-a-Service platform** — Full-stack automation including fleet management, tablet-based operator interface, 24/7 remote support, included maintenance, and continuous AI model improvements - with no contract lock-in.
- **Data Factory 1 (DF1)** — A roughly 35,000 sq ft facility in a renovated Watertown mill housing about 100 Sonny robots, producing roughly 10,000 hours of real-world training data per week via remote proprioceptive teleoperation.

## Achievements

- Closed a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures in December 2025, bringing total funding to ~$42M.
- Launched Data Factory 1, described as the largest robot data factory in the US - ~100 robots producing ~10,000 hours of training data per week.
- Deployed AI cobots in dozens of factories and warehouses coast to coast.
- Restored a historic Watertown mill into a working robotics manufacturing and training facility.
- Showcased palletizing and depalletizing cobots at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Profiled by Watertown News for restoring a historic mill into a robotics manufacturing and training base.
- **2026-05** — Announced Data Factory 1, a ~100-robot facility billed as the largest robot data factory in the US, generating ~10,000 hours of training data weekly.
- **2025-12** — Closed $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, co-led by Fundomo, with Neo participating; total funding ~$42M.
- **2025-09** — Exhibited Robots-as-a-Service palletizing cobots at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://tutorintelligence.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tutorintelligence
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tutorintel
- GitHub: https://github.com/tutorintelligence
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9EM4mW_Uc

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Last updated: 2026-06-06