Tutor Intelligence
About
About Tutor Intelligence
Tutor Intelligence develops robot workers for manufacturing and logistics. Its Cassie robot is designed for 24/7 pallet and case handling, while Sonny addresses other industrial tasks; the company also offers systems for palletising, depalletising and case picking.
Tutor combines robot hardware, physical-AI research and deployment partnerships. Robots are installed in factories and warehouses, where they learn from operational interaction and handle repetitive, high-volume work alongside existing staff. The company's approach links its research platform with field service, operational data and customer-specific workflows.
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Products
Operations
- Cumulative Bulk Picks
Millions of bulk picks - 2026-09-16 - Tutor reports Cassie has completed millions of bulk picks in U.S. production facilities. - source posture: Company Disclosed
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Deployments
- Monthly Fleet Growth Rate
~20% month over month - 2026-09-16 - Tutor says its robot fleet is growing roughly 20% month over month while it scales U.S. manufacturing; no fleet total was disclosed. - source posture: Company Disclosed
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Funding
Investors
- Fundomo - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-01
- Neo - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-01
- Union Square Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-01
Team
- Josh Gruenstein - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-16 - Product Launch - Tutor Intelligence unveils fully mobile Cassie for warehouse material handling
Existing Cassie robots have completed millions of bulk picks in U.S. production facilities across depalletization, induction, palletizing and repackaging. The new hardware has onboard vacuum generation, two 3D lidar units alongside 2D lidar, and battery life claimed to exceed one shift. Tutor says most Cassie deployments begin picking on day one, with a median of about 40 days from signed paperwork to production.
Source - 2026-09-16 - Product Launch - Tutor Intelligence unveils next-generation Sonny for e-commerce picking
The proposed workflow spans autonomous travel through existing warehouses, picking varied items from racking and taking completed orders to packout. Tutor says the new generation will be the first deployed robot running its 4.5-billion-parameter Ti0 vision-language-action model. An earlier Sonny prototype powers Tutor’s 100-robot Data Factory 1 for robot training and evaluation.
Source - 2026-05-01 - Capability - Tutor Intelligence introduces Data Factory 1 with 100 Sonny robots
Tutor Intelligence announced Data Factory 1, a 100-robot Sonny fleet for real-world teleoperation, evaluation and robot foundation model training. The company said DF1 is used to train Ti0, its first vision-language-action model built from DF1 data. Tutor said its first embodiment, Cassie, is already deployed across manufacturing and logistics workflows in the United States.
Source - 2026-04-13 - Demonstration - Tutor demonstrates Cassie palletizing with Orbbec Gemini cameras at MODEX
The demonstrated configuration used both Gemini 336 and Gemini 336L depth-camera models. Tutor presented Cassie as a smart palletizing robot at the logistics and industrial-automation show. The MODEX presentation documented a demonstration configuration without a disclosed fleet deployment.
Source - 2026-02-12 - Capability - Tutor Intelligence announces Sonny v1 case-packing research for Pack Expo East
Tutor Intelligence announced it would unveil Sonny v1, its AI-powered robotic manipulation research for high-SKU case-packing environments. The company positioned Sonny v1 for packaging workflows where changeovers, SKU variability and dexterity make traditional automation difficult. The announcement focused on lowering case-packing automation costs rather than a broad humanoid deployment.
Source - 2025-12-01 - Funding - Tutor Intelligence raises $34 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures
The round brought the company's total capital raised to $42 million. Tutor said the funding would support commercialization of its warehouse robot workers, scale its consumer packaged goods fleet and advance its central robot intelligence platform.
Source - 2025-11-14 - Demonstration - Tutor Intelligence showcases palletizing and depalletizing robots at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2025
Tutor demoed its palletizing robot at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2025 and used the show to engage manufacturers, packagers, and logistics teams dealing with labor shortages and staffing instability. The company positioned the showcase around flexible automation and its subscription-based Robots-as-a-Service model rather than a one-off hardware sale. Tutor said the event reinforced demand for automation that can adapt to short runs, changing SKUs, and volatile operating conditions without large upfront capital risk.
Source - 2025-05-07 - Demonstration - Tutor Intelligence demos SKU-flexible cobot palletizer at MD&M East
• Tutor Intelligence showcased its SKU Flexible Cobot Palletizer at the MD&M East show on May 7, 2025. • The system is designed for high-mix environments and operates on a pay-per-hour subscription model. • Attendees observed the cobot's capabilities in handling diverse SKUs without prior experience.
Source - 2025-05-07 - Demonstration - Tutor Intelligence demos SKU-flexible cobot palletizer ahead of MD&M East 2025
Tutor promoted its SKU Flexible Cobot palletizer ahead of MD&M East 2025, targeting co-packers, manufacturers, and 3PL operators handling high-mix environments. The company positioned the system around no-enclosure collaborative operation, vision-guided changeovers across hundreds of SKUs, and throughput of up to 10 cycles per minute for 15-30 lb cases. The event also highlighted Tutor's Robots-as-a-Service model, with the system presented as an operating-budget alternative to large upfront automation capex.
Source - 2022-08-03 - Demonstration - Tutor Intelligence introduces its first fleet of robots for American factories
Tutor published an early public launch post describing the rollout as the first fleet of robots to go where no robot had gone before: the average American factory. The announcement framed Tutor around factory-floor deployment rather than lab-only robotics, signaling the company's core thesis of putting intelligent robots into mainstream manufacturing environments.
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