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Genesis AI

What Genesis AI does

Genesis AI is a full-stack robotics company building general-purpose robots powered by a robotics foundation model it calls GENE (with its first public model release being GENE-26.5). Genesis positions its work as “physical AI” infrastructure for scaling dexterous manipulation—arguing that real-world utility depends on tightly integrated hardware, control, simulation, and training data rather than model improvements alone. Its product direction is embodied in Eno, described as its first general-purpose robot designed to operate across workplaces such as factories, laboratories, hospitals, and homes; Eno is intended to manage tasks from start to finish given high-level goals, and Genesis plans to begin targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026. Genesis also markets a full-stack simulation/data platform (“Genesis World 1.0”) intended to accelerate training and evaluation through high-fidelity simulation, and it highlights proprietary data collection hardware (a dexterous robotic hand plus a human-scale glove interface with tactile sensing) to reduce the human-to-robot “embodiment gap.”

News

Company record

Jun 16, 2026 · Official · Genesis AIPartnering with LG CNS to Scale General-Purpose Robotics Across Enterprise Operations

Genesis announced a multi-phase strategic partnership with LG CNS to evaluate and validate Genesis AI-powered general-purpose robots (Eno) for manufacturing and logistics use cases at LG operations in the U.S. and, in future phases, across LG CNS’s industrial customer portfolio globally.

Jun 16, 2026 · Official · Genesis AIMeet Eno

Genesis introduced Eno, describing its design choices and role as a general-purpose robot that is intended to operate in factories, laboratories, hospitals, and homes; Genesis also stated it plans targeted customer deployments beginning production by the end of 2026.

May 28, 2026 · Official · Genesis AIGenesis AI strengthens its leadership team to accelerate its growth in Europe

Genesis appointed Guillaume Soulé as Head of European Business and described related leadership additions (Head of Legal and Head of Operations) as part of scaling for its first general-purpose robot rollout.

May 22, 2026 · Official · Genesis AIGenesis AI Expands Executive Team Across Legal and Operations with Former X and Tesla Leaders

Genesis announced Damien Kieran as Head of Legal and Pally Kumar as Head of Operations, describing their backgrounds and responsibilities for scaling legal/policy interests and operational/data-collection/manufacturing execution.

May 07, 2026 · Official · Genesis AIGENE-26.5: Advancing Robotic Manipulation to Human Level (press release)

Genesis unveiled GENE-26.5 and described it as its first robotic foundation model system enabling human-level physical manipulation, alongside a simulation and data engine system intended to unlock large-scale training.

May 06, 2026 · Reporting · TechCrunchKhosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows

TechCrunch reported on Genesis AI’s progress toward a first model/system in its full-stack approach, including the release framing around GENE-26.5.

Mar 11, 2026 · Official · Genesis AIGenesis AI Hires Former Amazon Leader Vivian Sun to Advance Commercialization

Genesis announced Vivian Sun joining as Vice President of Commercial and Strategy to build commercialization strategy and partnerships as it enters the next phase.

Jul 01, 2025 · Official · Genesis AIGenesis AI Emerges From Stealth with $105M to Build Universal Robotics Foundation Model

Genesis emerged from stealth with a $105 million seed round co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures; Genesis described its mission to build universal robotics foundation model infrastructure and a horizontal robotics platform.

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What it builds

Eno

Eno is Genesis AI’s first general-purpose robot, designed to move, adapt, and learn continuously across the tasks and environments where people already work; Genesis states it is built with a body/hardware platform optimized to work with its GENE foundation model and that it will begin targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026.

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GENE-26.5 (GENE family robotic foundation model system)

GENE-26.5 is Genesis AI’s first robotic foundation model release within the GENE family, described as a “robotic brain” designed to push general-purpose robotic manipulation toward human-level capability using a unified model and system approach across long-horizon, contact-rich tasks.

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GENE (robotics foundation model)

GENE is positioned as the foundation-model “brain” powering Genesis robots, intended to enable robots to understand goals, reason about changing conditions, and perform manipulation tasks with dexterity and precision.

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Genesis World 1.0 (simulation platform)

Genesis describes “Genesis World 1.0” as its expanded simulation framework intended to accelerate scalable robotics research by improving sim-to-real realism and speeding up the self-evolving loop of training, testing, and iteration.

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Milestones & partnerships

Jun 16, 2026
Eno introduced; deployments planned for end of 2026

Genesis introduced Eno and stated it plans to begin production and targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026.

Genesis AI
Jun 16, 2026
LG CNS partnership announced

Genesis announced a long-term strategic partnership with LG CNS for enterprise deployments starting with pilots and a rollout playbook.

LG CNS · LG Group
May 28, 2026
Head of European Business appointment

Genesis appointed Guillaume Soulé as Head of European Business to lead partnership and growth strategy in Europe.

Guillaume Soulé
May 27, 2026
Published simulation strategy post (Genesis World 1.0)

Genesis posted its view of the role of simulation in scalable robotics and described Genesis World 1.0 and its path forward.

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May 22, 2026
Head of Legal and Head of Operations appointments

Genesis appointed Damien Kieran as Head of Legal and Pally Kumar as Head of Operations.

Damien Kieran · Pally Kumar
May 07, 2026
Public release of GENE-26.5

Genesis released GENE-26.5 and described it as its first robotic foundation model system for human-level physical manipulation.

Genesis AI
Mar 11, 2026
Commercial leadership hire

Genesis hired Vivian Sun as VP of Commercial and Strategy.

Vivian Sun
Jul 01, 2025
Seed funding announced to build universal robotics foundation model

Genesis announced emergence from stealth with $105M seed funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures.

Eclipse · Khosla Ventures · Bpifrance · HSG · Eric Schmidt · Xavier Niel