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"The fastest way to train robots"
TLDR: Innate builds AI brains for general-purpose robots, and affordable embodiments for consumers to experience the first AI robots.
Their first product, Maurice, is a mobile robot with a trainable arm, designed for Silicon Valley builders to play with, customize and build on. It runs their AI brain that can navigate, perform physical tasks, interact with people, and reason.
Founded by Axel Peytavin & Vignesh Anand
Two former Stanford grad students and researchers in AI for robotics and AI for HCI. They met almost a year ago working on a previous idea, and through several iterations of this project, they have come to trust their shared abilities to face the hard problems ahead to make general-purpose robotics accessible to everyone.
This company embodies their vision of bringing a technology that will be a major game-changer for humanity, in the hands of everyone. So that robots are made for humans, taught by humans.
The brain is completely teachable: You can prompt it, chat with it, and teach it physical tasks.
It takes only 5 minutes for you to write another prompt for Maurice to behave very differently, for example, performing security at home:
⚙️ Under the hood
In the past 3 months, Innate created their brain, an AI orchestrator leveraging several of the most recent research publications in AI for manipulation, navigation, reasoning and planning.
It combines 9 different models to create something that feels innately intelligent - like GPT, Gemini, Claude and Llama (Groq) got a body and learned to move. Maurice constantly understands its environment, makes decisions, remembers what is sees and where, and learns from you.
This system comprises:
🧠 A multi-agent orchestrator running specialized models locally and in cloud
🤖 Real-time manipulation models controlled by their own transformers
🦾 A full data pipeline to collect arm data, train in the cloud, run inference on the platform
💬 A 100% interactive platform, that can be steered vocally or through its prompts
📈 An eval pipeline for their brain’s decision making, to progressively make it better
Maurice learns your space, remembers context, and makes autonomous decisions about where, what to do next.
It’s also ready to build on:
- All the compute required is onboard (uses a Jetson Orin Nano)
- Shipped with a teleop arm to train it quickly
- SDK to access the agent, steer it, give it new functions to call
And as a user, you can customize it, collect data quickly to train it, and even change the hardware.
This allows Maurice (and future robots) to learn several kinds of physical tasks.
Finally, Maurice is already reliable enough for them to do live, autonomous demos!
They're also developing a larger robot that can reach countertops. Their interoperable software ensures quick capability matching across all future embodiments using the Innate brain.
The Ask: Join them into the future
Innate is making teachable robots accessible to builders now, because they believe it is the right way to tailor robots people want, for a reasonable price. Furthermore, the data they collect along the way, teaching their robots, will be useful for all future robots.
Their first platform is for Silicon Valley builders who want to shape what teachable robots can do. Sign up for their waitlist on their website.
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