Origami RoboticsOrigami RoboticsWe build useful robots that solve real challenges in manufacturing, logistics, and beyond.
We build robots to grasp anything, use any tools, and perform any physical tasks a human hand can do.
We're building the full stack for general manipulation: the hardware, the data infrastructure, and the learned policies. For factories, fulfillment centers, bio labs, and beyond.
Locomotion is on a trajectory. Manipulation is stuck. The root cause is something the industry doesn't talk about enough: the gearbox.
Read: The Dexterity Deadlock →High-ratio gearboxes break sim-to-real transfer, destroy force transparency, and are the first thing to wear out. Standard grippers and under-actuated robot hands are not suitable for real factory scenarios that demand human-level dexterity.
We build a human-size, 21-DoF, QDD (Quasi-Direct Drive) robot hand with low gear ratio design. Co-designed with a matching data-collection glove, our system eliminates the embodiment gap, enabling high-quality data collection without slow teleoperation.
Daniel and Ryan Xie are brothers who grew up building robots side by side. They've assembled a team of researchers and engineers from CMU, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, RPI, and UPenn. Young, technically fearless, and deeply mission-driven.
Their research backgrounds span two of the world's top robotics programs, and they've brought that academic rigor straight into building product.
We're hiring engineers who want to solve the hardest unsolved problem in robotics.
You'll work on the mechanical design of our next-generation robotics hardware, taking it from concept and prototyping through DFM and into mass production. You'll work closely with the founders and collaborate across firmware, controls, and manufacturing to make key engineering tradeoffs between performance, cost, and manufacturability. We care deeply about product taste: you should have strong opinions about what makes a great physical product.
You'll design and optimize the actuators at the heart of our robot hand: the custom QDD (Quasi-Direct Drive) motors that give our hand its unique force transparency and backdrivability. This is a deep R&D role where your motor design decisions directly shape what our robots can do in the real world.
You'll own the manufacturing process for our robot hand and data-collection glove, from incoming quality control through assembly, testing, and final shipment. We're scaling from first batch to hundreds of units, and you'll build the processes and testing infrastructure to make that happen reliably.