Genesis AI

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A robotics company that grew out of the Genesis simulator, building dexterous manipulation with matched hardware and software.

Genesis AI came out of stealth in July 2025 with a $105 million seed round led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with offices in Paris and California, later expanding to London. Its CEO, Xian Zhou, is the lead originator of the open-source physics simulator Genesis; its president, Théophile Gervet, was previously a researcher at Mistral AI. The company takes a full-stack approach: it partnered with Wuji Robotics to build a dexterous hand close to the size of a human hand, paired with sensor-equipped gloves to capture human manipulation data, and built its own Genesis World simulator for training and evaluation. In May 2026 it released the robotics foundation model GENE-26.5, demonstrating dexterous manipulation such as cooking, playing piano, and solving a Rubik's Cube. Its website is currently collecting a waitlist for a home/commercial robot called Eno, with targeted customer deployments planned to begin in late 2026.

ExampleIn the GENE-26.5 release demo, a dexterous hand trained on human glove data plus a small amount of robot data solved a Rubik's Cube.

Also called: Genesis AI SAS
Related: Genesis Simulator · GENE-26.5 (Genesis AI robotics foundation model) · Wuji Hand · Dexterous Manipulation · Data Glove · Hardware-Software Integration
Sources: Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows (TechCrunch, 2026-05-06)
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As of: 2026-05