What are we building? Two-arm robot for automating manual tabletop work, starting with final electronics assembly. We building robot itself and make software tools for deploying and scaling.
Problem Today manufacturers can source pre-assembled modules and automate most production steps. However, 5–10% of operations, primarily in final assembly, remain manual. This forces manufacturers to outsource the entire production to stay competitive. We automate this remaining gap.
Business model?
- $10k initial payment + $500/month per robot
- Marketplace for tuned robot setups
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Imagine you’re a small manufacturer producing electronic toys. Today, you pay about $1,000/month for an assembler, spend 1–2 days onboarding them, plus 2–3 weeks supervising to get stable quality.
Instead, you buy a robot and pay ~$500/month. To train it, you take the job and break it into simple primitives: “pick a part from the tray” “Regrip the part to the correct orientation.” “insert connector” etc. For each primitive, you teleoperate ~30 short demos (10 seconds each) — about 5 minutes of data per operation. The robot generalizes across different intermediate positions and small variations in parts. You can cover the whole task within a day.
After that, the robot starts working by running the entire sequence. You load the materials in the morning and get finished products by the evening. Over 1–2 weeks, the robot improves from successful and failed attempts until reliability is effectively 100%. If something goes wrong, it stops and waits; a human fixes the situation and records another 5 minutes showing how to recover, so the robot learns that edge case. Instead of a manager, you have an operator who can supervise ~10 robots.
The robot may be slower per motion because the gripper is simpler, but it works 4x longer (no weekends/holidays), and with our stack, it can run 2–3× faster than teleoperation.
Net result: the robot delivers similar throughput with similar resources, but at lower cost and with consistent quality.
We — Igor and Viktor — have owned an electronics manufacturing business for 9 years, so we understand the problem of manual labor and know how to build electronics.
