Genesis AI
About
About Genesis AI
Genesis AI develops general-purpose robots together with the models, hands and data infrastructure that control them. Its Eno robot combines a wheeled base, an articulated folding body and two arms with dexterous hands. The GENE foundation model connects visual observations, instructions and interaction data to multi-step manipulation, with demonstrations spanning cooking, laboratory pipetting and wire harnessing.
The company collects human interaction data through tactile gloves and video, and uses Genesis World to evaluate robot policies in simulation. The simulation platform includes its Nyx renderer and Quadrants compiler. Genesis AI operates across France and California and works with LG CNS on industrial validation and scale-up. Eno's planned initial customer rollout targets manufacturing, logistics and laboratory work, with production and targeted deployments scheduled to begin by the end of 2026.
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Funding
- 2025-07-01 - Seed - $105M - Genesis AI emerges from stealth with $105M seed for robotics foundation models
Genesis AI emerged from stealth with $105 million in seed funding to build a universal robotics foundation model and horizontal robotics platform. - source: prnewswire.com
Investors
- Bpifrance - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-01
- Eclipse - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-01
- Eric Schmidt - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-01
- HSG - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-01
- Khosla Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-01
- Xavier Niel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-01
Team
- Zhou Xian - Co-Founder and CEO - Co-founded Genesis AI and leads development of its general-purpose robotics platform as CEO.
- Theophile Gervet - Co-Founder
Research
- Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 robotics foundation model and dexterous hand demo
2026-05-06 - Research Publication - Genesis AI unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotics foundation model for dexterous physical manipulation. The company said the system combines a human-scale dexterous robotic hand with a data engine for skill transfer, training and evaluation. Genesis AI demonstrated the model across tasks including cooking eggs, lab pipetting, smoothie making, Rubik’s cube solving, wire harnessing and piano performance.
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Events
- 2026-10-12 - Market Signal - Genesis AI is named in NVIDIA’s planned French startup investments
The new planned investments also include healthcare platform Doctolib, materials-discovery startup Entalpic and planning software company Pigment. Genesis AI develops robotics foundation models alongside data collection, simulation and robot hardware. The company’s wider commitments across Europe totalled nearly $10 billion.
Source - 2026-06-16 - Partnership - Genesis AI and LG CNS partner to scale Eno
The initial work will evaluate manufacturing and logistics use cases at LG operations and LG CNS customers in the United States. A joint pilot will document workflows, collect data, perform post-training and validate a deployment playbook. The companies plan a later multi-phase rollout across LG affiliates and LG CNS customers in labour-intensive industries.
Source - 2026-06-16 - Product Launch - Genesis AI unveils Eno general-purpose robot
Eno is Genesis AI’s first general-purpose robot and is designed for tasks across factories, laboratories, hospitals and homes. The robot uses a wheeled base, a foldable tower and human-like hands rather than a full humanoid body with legs and a head. Genesis AI plans targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026, initially around logistics and manufacturing customers.
Source - 2026-05-27 - Product Launch - Genesis AI open-sources Genesis World 1.0 simulation platform
Genesis World 1.0 is an open-source simulation platform for robotics and physical AI, positioned as the second release in Genesis AI's full-stack suite. The release includes near-realtime performance with a penetration-free IPC solver, unified rigid and deformable physics, and contact-rich manipulation support across robots, hands and grippers. Genesis AI also open-sourced Quadrants, a GPU-accelerated computation layer forked from Taichi, and Nyx, a path-traced rendering engine for robotics simulation.
Source - 2026-05-21 - Executive Hire - Genesis AI expands leadership with legal and operations hires
Damien Kieran joined Genesis AI as Head of Legal after senior legal and privacy roles at Tools for Humanity, X and Google. Pally Kumar joined as Head of Operations after manufacturing and operations roles at Cobot, Tesla, Amazon and Lyft. The appointments support Genesis AI as it scales data collection, manufacturing operations and work toward its first general-purpose robot.
Source - 2026-05-06 - Demonstration - Genesis AI demonstrates GENE-26.5 with custom Genesis Hand 1.0
The demonstration used Genesis Hand 1.0, a custom design rather than the catalog Wuji Hand. Wuji's corrected account identifies its role as a manufacturing collaborator. Human-scale proportions and back-drivability support transfer from human demonstrations to robotic manipulation.
Source - 2026-05-06 - Research Publication - Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 robotics foundation model and dexterous hand demo
Genesis AI unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotics foundation model for dexterous physical manipulation. The company said the system combines a human-scale dexterous robotic hand with a data engine for skill transfer, training and evaluation. Genesis AI demonstrated the model across tasks including cooking eggs, lab pipetting, smoothie making, Rubik’s cube solving, wire harnessing and piano performance.
Source - 2025-07-01 - Funding - Genesis AI emerges from stealth with $105M seed for robotics foundation models
Genesis AI emerged from stealth with $105 million in seed funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures. The company said it is building a universal robotics foundation model and horizontal robotics platform for general-purpose physical AI. Backers included Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel, supporting Genesis AI's data-engine and robot-learning roadmap.
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Notes
Profile notes
- Genesis Hand 1.0 was developed for Genesis and manufactured with Wuji Tech
reviewed 2026-07-26 - Genesis introduced GENE-26.5 in May 2026 alongside what it described as its proprietary Genesis Hand 1.0. The launch initially caused conflicting interpretations of the hardware's origin after Wuji Tech appeared to identify the hands in Genesis's demonstrations as its own Wuji product.
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Relations
Relationships
- LG CNS
Verified Robotics Partner - Genesis AI and LG CNS formed a long-term partnership to validate and scale Eno in industrial operations.
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Shared workflows
- Generalist
workflow adjacency - Dexterous Robot Policy Learning
Context tags
- Wheeled Humanoid Mobile Manipulator Builder - Peer Group - https://www.genesis.ai/press/meet-eno | Eno is a wheeled dual-arm mobile-manipulation robot; direct manufacturer programme.
- Robot foundation model platform - Stack Layer
- Robot model supply chain - Customer Environment
- Robot control foundation model developer - Peer Group
- Dexterous robot policy learning - Workflow