Genesis AI is putting a robot brain and hand ahead of customer deployments
Genesis AI followed its July 2025 $105 million seed round with GENE-26.5, a robotic foundation model and dexterous hand system aimed at manipulation before public customer deployments.
Genesis AI unveiled GENE-26.5 on May 7, 2026, including a robotics foundation model, a human-scale dexterous hand and a manipulation-training data engine.
The reveal follows Genesis AI's July 2025 stealth exit with $105 million in seed funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures. The seed round funded a universal robotics foundation model and a horizontal robotics platform built from simulation, generated data, and real robot collection.
GENE-26.5 is aimed at dexterous work, where manipulation depends on contact, sequencing, and long-horizon control. Genesis showed tomato chopping, one-handed egg cracking, pipetting, wire harnessing, Rubik's Cube manipulation, and piano playing.
The company was founded by Zhou Xian and Theophile Gervet. TechCrunch reported that Zhou holds a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and that Gervet previously worked as a research scientist at Mistral AI.
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