Announcing XDOF

The robotics era AI has split our lives into two. Our laptops bring us into a digital universe running faster than anything we have ever imagined. Then we log off, and our physical reality strikes us. We load and unload the dishwasher, fold t-shirts, and organize shelves. The same innovations accelerating our life in bits have not yet reached our life in atoms. We believe that general purpose robotics is inevitable. As long-time robotics researchers, we, along with colleagues and the greater research community, have been advancing the frontier of robotics capabilities and see the signs of life that will usher in this new era. Hardware and software are both compounding improvements in unstoppable fashion. The robotics ecosystem is maturing, and we have the momentum to find the breakthrough insight. Introducing XDOF: the true partner for the robotics industry XDOF is a robotics infrastructure company that seeks to unlock a world with abundant, useful physical intelligence. We partner closely with the world's leading robotics labs and most promising robotics companies to deliver production-scale datasets, advanced robotic systems and the tooling needed to support the next generation of physical AI. Our team brings together experience across AI, robotics, hardware and operations from places like Covariant, Tesla, Google, Uber, Applied Intuition, and beyond, all supercharged by our roots in Berkeley AI research. Our DNA teaches us that, in robotics, you need every ingredient to make a standout recipe. There are no shortcuts. No data without thinking about hardware and model performance. No blunt scaling of ops without thinking about infrastructure. We can accelerate an embodied AI reality XDOF is building towards a world where the potential for embodied AI is limited not by infrastructure, but only by the ambition and creativity of builders. We are just getting started on one of the defining problems of the decade.