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Epsilon was founded in 2019 by an engineer with over 15 years of consulting experience in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Robotics. It all started in a one-bedroom apartment just outside of Atlanta with an enormous goal in mind: Artificial General Intelligence for all. Since the age of 14, our founder, Chris Altamimi, has been on a life-long mission to bring AGI and Robotics into every home. He believed that humans of the world should focus on what makes them happy, and not the mundane day-to-day work that they are forced to do. From the very beginning, we knew our goals were just out of reach academically. In early 2019, the critics said AGI wouldn’t be possible until 2030. From the very beginning, we also knew that our goals were wholly possible, regardless of what the critics said. We had our ideas, we had ambitions, and we had preliminary designs, but we didn’t have proof. So we set off on a goal to gather this proof. For the past 3 years we’ve been developing proof of concepts, adopting and improving modern cognition engines, and designing our own AGI framework from the ground up. With Google’s LaMDA, ChatGPT, and undoubtedly other tech giants working on AI and AGI of their own, it’s time for us to exit stealth mode and begin working in the public’s eye. Join our notification list or join our waitlist in order to be updated on everything we do. When our robots or our AGI agents are consumer-ready, you’ll be the first to know.

We founded Standard Bots because we believe that automation can lead to a better world. By performing time-consuming, repetitive, and dangerous tasks, robotics gives us more time to be creative, spend time with loved ones, and chase our dreams. Though the potential of this technology is immense, when we looked around we saw a broken robotics market — one with enormous upfront costs, excessively complex software, and outdated support systems that make it impossible for many business to take advantage of automation’s vast benefits. So we assembled a team of experts to build a new robot, write custom software for it, and develop a new kind of subscription model that opens the world of automation to everyone. Expanding access to robotics doesn’t end when our customers receive their product either. We are committed to offering the best ongoing support to keep every RO1 operating at the cutting edge. Automation will define our future, so it must be widely available and applied toward a noble mission. We’ve taken the first step, and we’re just getting started.

In September 2019, Aptiv announced a 50/50 joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group, bringing together Hyundai and Aptiv’s advanced engineering, R&D capabilities, global footprint, and shared commitment to advancing autonomous driving technology.

Based in Silicon Valley, Plus.ai was founded in 2016 by a group of Stanford PhD classmates who saw the strong potential of artificial intelligence to make a big impact on business and society. With trucking being the primary means of shipping in America, the founders decided to focus on self-driving technology to transform the trillion-dollar commercial trucking industry. Plus.ai is one of the most advanced autonomous trucking companies today in terms of technological progress and were the first to obtain California’s Autonomous Testing License. The company has since been working on improving the robustness and safety of its fully functional Level-4 autonomous trucks. Plus.ai closely collaborates with the largest OEMs to build self-driving trucks that are safer than human-operated vehicles. The company operates a fleet of autonomous trucks in pilot programs with the top freight shipping companies.

Legged robots that feel the world

At Flo we are building a generic, cost effective and configurable autonomous solution to enable autonomous movement of existing vehicles and equipments in mobility, delivery, warehouse and farming sectors.

Orom AI is building a real-time spatial perception layer for Physical AI. Our models help robots, drones, and other camera-equipped systems understand where they are, what is around them, and how real-world environments are structured. We solve the most generalizable version of the perception problem as a baseline: monocular and edge-first, with no strict dependence on LiDAR, expensive sensor stacks, or cloud dependence. We fuse additional sensor inputs when a specific use case calls for it within the same methodology, improving robustness and accuracy depending on deployment fit. We are building a truly novel perception stack by combining the power of compact neural networks with geometric grounding from classical optimization techniques. The neural modules learn strong 3D priors, while proven numerical solvers keep the results precise, stable, and interpretable. Our output is transformer-native and can be readily consumed as the context layer for downstream models including VLAs, VLMs and LLMs. The foundational technology has been built and we are in the early stages of commercialization. Our monocular neural SLAM engine runs in real time on commodity hardware with either CPU or GPU and a small memory footprint, achieving strong localization accuracy on difficult sequences, substantially outperforming established classical and learned baselines. We have proved that our core technology is accurate and fast enough to help physical AI agents understand the world in production settings, and we are executing our first real-world deployments.

Lucid Bots, a Charlotte-based company specializing in drone, robotics, and AI solutions, is thrilled to announce its inclusion in the prestigious Inc. 5000 list as the #143 fastest-growing company in the US and the fourth fastest growing manufacturer!