Genesis AI brings in $105M to build universal robotics foundation model - The Robot Report

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Published: 7/1/2025
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Read original articleGenesis AI, a physical AI research lab and robotics company, has emerged from stealth with $105 million in funding to develop a universal robotics foundation model (RFM) and a horizontal robotics platform. The company aims to advance "physical AI"—the intelligence enabling machines to perceive, understand, and interact with the real world—by leveraging digital AI foundations to create general-purpose robots with human-level intelligence. Founded by robotics Ph.D. Zhou Xian and former Mistral AI researcher Théophile Gervet, Genesis AI focuses on building a scalable data engine that unifies high-fidelity physics simulation, multimodal generative modeling, and large-scale real robot data collection to train robust, flexible, and cost-efficient robots.
Physical labor accounts for an estimated $30 to $40 trillion of global GDP, yet over 95% remains unautomated due to limitations in current robotic systems, which are often narrow, brittle, and costly. Genesis AI seeks to overcome these challenges by generating rich synthetic data through
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