Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOCH20251203012
- Term of Validity
- 3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
- Company's Country
- Switzerland
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Investment agreement
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A Swiss start-up is developing teleoperation hardware and software for humanoid robots, reducing strain and injuries for workers in unstructured and exhorting environments, and increasing productivity. The teleoperation is used as data to train AI models that can perform specific tasks autonomously, as teleoperators are only required to intervene to correct erroneous actions. The company is seeking construction companies for pilot agreements and humanoid manufacturers for technical development.
- Full Description
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The company is a pre-seed Swiss robotics start-up based in Zurich developing teleoperation hardware and software compatible with humanoid robots. During teleoperation, data on the operations and environment is gathered to train Visual Language Action (VLA) models capable of automating tasks. These models can be deployed at different scales, from supervised autonomy to full autonomy. In the first case, the teleoperator must oversee the work and intervene in case of error, while in full autonomy, the robot performs the action without oversight, fully leveraging its training data.
The teleoperation equipment can be employed for different humanoid hardware morphologies and enables deployment without pre-existing automation models, along with the development of new models after deployment begins, thanks to the teleoperation data-gathering.
Seeking:
Piloting- industry partnerships for early pilots: companies that want to adopt the teleoperation workflow and test the trained models in real scenarios for robustness.
Co-development: Humanoid robotic hardware companies wishing to integrate our technology with their hardware in a joint venture. Providing the hardware platform to accompany the teleoperation equipment.
The company’s long-term vision is to provide robust automation models for a diverse portfolio of tasks in construction that it has trained using the teleoperation data. Using data gathered from expert workers, the service will enable customers to mitigate labour shortage pains and increase demand for humanoid hardware platforms.
The company aims to provide its services for early pilot adopters under a preferential fee and seeks to partner with humanoid hardware platforms to provide a joint service compatible with these platforms in a mutually beneficial venture.
It is also open to collaborating on R&D with potential partners if the nature of the collaboration is tied to a wider commercial partnership, i.e Eurostars. - Advantages and Innovations
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Unlocking humanoid workspaces - The teleoperation system allows for the deployment of humanoid hardware platforms in scenarios where they would usually not be viable due to limited automation capabilities.
Cross-morphological – The system can be adapted to a range of humanoid hardware platforms, allowing for the ideal one to be picked for the task.
Scalable – The main component of the system is software-based, and the scalability depends purely on the ability of humanoid hardware platform providers to produce enough units to fulfil demand.
Gradual automation, expertise retention – Teleoperation allows the automation of select tasks in accordance with customer needs. Unlike other solutions, the Swiss company adopts a supervised automation stage that uses the customer’s own processes as a baseline, allowing for finer control. - Stage of Development
- Under development
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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Type of partners sought:
1. AI and robotics research labs and institutions
2. Humanoid robotic hardware manufacturers
3. Construction companies
The specific area of activity of the partner:
1. Research: joint development of models and teleoperation system.
2. Co-development: humanoid hardware company, adapting and integrating teleoperation technology with own system.
3. Piloting: adopting the teleoperation system and humanoid robot on the worksite and integrating it into processes, testing autonomous models for tasks. - Type and Size of Partner
- University
- SME 11-49
- R&D Institution
- SME <=10
- SME 50 - 249
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Investment agreement
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02003001 - Process automation
- 01003003 - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 01003021 - Remote Control
- 01001001 - Automation, Robotics Control Systems
- 01003018 - User Interfaces, Usability
- Market keywords
- 08002004 - Robotics
- 02007016 - Artificial intelligence related software
- 08002003 - Process control equipment and systems
- 08006001 - Process control and logistics
- 09007001 - Construction companies
- Sector Groups Involved
- Energy-Intensive Industries - Materials
- Targeted countries
- All countries