Tutor's mission is to proliferate generally intelligent robotics for the common good.
We pursue this mission by deploying fleets of robots into real-world, economically valuable applications and taking a collaborative, informed approach to guiding the impacts of our work.
Data Factory 1 (DF1)
DF1 is a 100-robot farm of Sonny robots — to our knowledge the largest robot data factory in the United States. We use DF1 for large-scale real-world teleoperation, evaluation, and online iterative improvement of robot foundation models for dextrous bimanual manipulation.
Ti0 is our first foundation model trained using DF1 data. Ti0 belongs to a new class of methods where policy improvement is driven autonomously via large-scale human supervision over deployed robot fleets.
Sonny – a (semi-) humanoid industrial robot.
Sonny is equipped with two 6-DoF arms, each with 5 kg payload capacity and 900mm of reach, giving it the workspace and payload capacity required for a wide range of bimanual manipulation factory tasks. The head orientation rotates 180° in both roll and pitch. The end effectors are compliant Fin Ray grippers that are easily swappable, supporting future specialization as well as easy repairs.
Sonny has a stereo RGBD camera on each wrist, serving as the main drivers for model control. A time-of-flight RGBD camera on the head and torso work together to provide high-fidelity point clouds used in PTeleop, our 3D proprioceptive teleoperation system.
Sonny's brain is below the table -- a computer featuring a 28 Core Intel i7 Processor, 64 GB RAM, and a 5060Ti Nvidia GPU with16GB VRAM. The computer has sufficient power to rapidly construct point clouds and run inference for our Ti0 foundation model.
Research that reveals the future of effective automation
Tutor is a research-led, deployment focused robotics lab. We don’t do research just to develop capabilities in a vacuum; we're doing it because we believe that advances in physical artificial intelligence will transform the global supply chain. Today’s fast-paced, high-variability warehouses and factories are best positioned to take earliest advantage of this coming revolution.
We're building an infinite, easily scaled labor supply that’s as flexible, smart, and intuitive as a human workforce to deliver value directly into the organizations that move the world's goods. Every breakthrough we make translates directly into production, making our industry partners faster, more precise, and more profitable.
DEPENDABLE
Robots ready to work on day one
DEPENDABLE
Our robots are deployed in days and doing work in hours. They're supported 24/7 by our team of Tutors. We ensure that Ti0 foundation model already has experience with products like yours — searching our dataset and collecting additional data in DF1 as needed.
EVOLVING
Robots that learn from experience and get smarter
EVOLVING
We've deployed hundreds of robots, supported by an international team of teleoperators that step in to correct mistakes before they happen. Every intervention becomes a corrective training signal and data is annotated within minutes of collection. This human-in-the-loop feedback drives a flywheel that makes our robot fleet get smarter over time.
PIONEERING
Frontier robotics, deployed today
PIONEERING
Most robotics research never leaves the lab. Ours runs in warehouses today. Every advance we make ships into deployed robots, increasing the throughput for the partners who rely on them. We believe physical AI will reshape how the world moves goods — and the only way to prove it is in production.
Tutor is your partner in automation
We partner closely with organizations to deliver exceptional experiences and reduce operational costs, We deploy robots in days and have them doing useful work in hours. Our Tutors provide 24/7 support, helping our partners keep operations running smoothly from day one. Tutor is ready to scale with our partners, providing guidance toward rapid modernization that is reliable and dependable.
Ready to deploy?
Let's discuss your specific operational needs and see how Sonny and Cassie can start making an impact. Schedule a free, no-obligation consultation with our team today.
