Robots don't need to be exactly like humans.
SimuLabs builds robots for industrial work: a humanoid form factor that fits factories built for people, with complex task-specific end-effectors instead of five-fingered hands or jaw grippers.
Approach
Software-hardware co-design
When a mechanical change makes the control problem easier, we change the hardware: gripper geometry, compliance, sensor placement.
Modular architecture
Arms, end-effectors, sensing, and compute are interchangeable modules behind a common interface. Retooling for a new task means swapping the end-effector, not replacing the robot or the algorithms.
Pilot deployments
Pilots with industrial partners are running now. Fallback mechanisms make our robots easy to deploy and let them improve based on real operation.
Collaboration
Our simulation stack, module interfaces, and benchmark tasks are published under permissive licenses.
We run joint projects with university groups, co-supervise theses, and host visiting researchers.
Reindustrialise the West
High-mix production is still manual because conventional automation only pays off at scale. Modular robots that can be retooled per task make full automation viable there too, and with it, factories in high-wage countries.