Genesis AI Emerges with $105M to Build Universal Robotics Foundation

With funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, Genesis AI is poised to revolutionize the era of generalist robotics and automate all physical labor. The company has emerged from stealth with a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor through the development of a universal robotics foundation model (RFM) and a horizontal robotics platform.

Genesis AI, a global physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company, emerged from stealth today with a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor. The company raised $105 million co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with additional support from Bpifrance, HSG, and visionary leaders Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel.

Physical labor contributes an estimated $30-40 trillion to the Global GDP, yet over 95% of it remains unautomated due to the limitations of current automation solutions. Today’s robotic systems, such as industrial arms, rely on brittle, rigid, and overfitted software stacks. These systems are narrow in scope, costly to deploy, and challenging to scale. Genesis aims to revolutionize the next generation of general-purpose robots by unlocking unprecedented robustness, flexibility, and cost efficiency, ultimately automating all physical labor.

Genesis brings a data-centric, full-stack approach to physical AI. The company is building a scalable and universal data engine that unifies high-fidelity physics simulation, multimodal generative modeling, and large-scale real robot data collection. Its simulation stack, developed entirely in-house, will generate rich synthetic data at scale, together with a more efficient and scalable real-world data collection system. This dual engine of synthetic and real data bridges historically siloed domains to collect the largest-scale, most diverse, and highest quality data to train RFMs.

“General-purpose robots powered by physical AI will define the next major chapter of human history. While digital AI has made extraordinary progress, physical AI – the intelligence that allows machines to perceive, understand, and interact with the real world – has lagged behind,” said Zhou Xian, CEO of Genesis. “We’re here to change that. By building on the foundations laid by existing digital AI models, we’re bringing human-level intelligence into the physical world. Genesis’s unique approach by fueling digital AI knowledge to drive the emergence of physical AI will deliver unmatched capability, scalability, and cost-efficiency to unlock unlimited physical labor. With 75% of global companies struggling to fill jobs, physical AI is more essential than ever.”

Founded by top academic and industry technical talents from Mistral AI, Nvidia, Google, CMU, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, and UMD, Genesis is well-positioned to rapidly execute its vision through a differentiated approach to physical AI. The company also plans to open-source components of its data engine and foundation model to empower developers, researchers, and partners to build on its breakthroughs and accelerate progress across the broader field of physical AI.

“Even in the most ‘automated’ industries today, the robot-to-human ratio rarely exceeds 1:30, due to the long tail of tasks requiring dexterity, cognition, mobility, and real-world reasoning that current robots simply can’t handle,” said Charly Mwangi, Partner at Eclipse. “General-purpose robotics is the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for and stands to impact trillions in labor value across sectors. Genesis has the vision, strategy, and world-class team to define the era of physical AI in order to unlock unlimited physical labor through general-purpose robotics.”

“Physical AI has yet to scale like LLMs because collecting and aligning real-world data can be operationally complex,” said Kanu Gulati of Khosla Ventures. “Genesis is taking a full-stack approach by integrating best-in-class simulation data with real-world robotics data in a continuous, closed-loop system. Owning the entire data pipeline in-house gives them a unique data advantage. We’re excited to back Genesis early as they work to build a universal foundation model for robotics.”

To learn more about Genesis or explore career opportunities to help define the future of robotics, visit genesis-ai.company.

Genesis AI is a global physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company pioneering the world’s first universal robotics foundation model and horizontal robotics platform. With a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor, Genesis empowers the deployment of general-purpose robots to perform the essential physical work that underpins the global economy.

Eclipse, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management, is a team of operators and investors partnering with exceptional companies from ideation to all stages of growth to unlock solutions to age-old physical industry problems through the intersection of bits and atoms and the rise of physical AI.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in artificial intelligence, financial services, healthcare, consumer, enterprise, and sustainability sectors. It is known for making early capital investments in startups such as OpenAI, Instacart, Affirm, DoorDash, and Block.