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Robotics Context

Tutor Intelligence

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Snapshot

  • What it is

    Detail
    Rents AI-driven robots that handle packaged goods in U.S. factories and warehouses; remote human operators, which it calls "tutors", guide them, and the data from each task trains its robot foundation model[1]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Founded

    Detail
    2021, by Josh Gruenstein and Alon Kosowsky-Sachs, out of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)[2]
    As of
    May 2026

  • Headquarters

    Detail
    Watertown, Massachusetts[3]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Facilities

    Detail
    Data Factory 1 (DF1): 100 two-armed Sonny robots at its headquarters in a historic mill in Watertown, supervised by 45 to 50 remote tutors in Mexico and the Philippines and staff on site[2]
    As of
    May 2026

  • Leadership

    Detail
    Josh Gruenstein, co-founder and CEO[1]Full leadership
    As of
    Nov 2026

Leadership

  • CEO

    Person and background
    Josh Gruenstein, co-founder and CEO[1]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Founders

    Person and background
    Josh Gruenstein and Alon Kosowsky-Sachs (CTO)[2]
    As of
    May 2026

Scale and customers

  • Facility growth

    Detail
    Robots working in almost four times as many facilities as a year earlier[1]Self-reported
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Repeat orders

    Detail
    Nearly a third of the organisations that got Tutor robots in the past year were existing customers adding more[1]Self-reported
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Fleet target

    Detail
    More than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027, all built in the U.S.[1]Self-reported
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Customer quoted

    Detail
    Productiv (Richmond, Va.; e-commerce, medical-device and cosmetics kitting): its CFO said "The robot was profitable from Day 1"[2]Self-reported
    As of
    May 2026

  • Production hours

    Detail
    "Tens of thousands of hours" of real-world production experience[4]Self-reported
    As of
    Dec 2025

Funding

  • Seed

    Detail
    Led by Neo[1]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Series A

    Detail
    $34M (Dec 2025) led by Union Square Ventures, with Fundomo and Neo; $42M raised in total at the time[4]
    As of
    Dec 2025

  • Funding disclosed

    Detail
    $117M in total[1]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Series B

    Detail
    $75M (Nov 2026) led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Union Square Ventures and Neo; valuation not disclosed[1]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Andreessen Horowitz

    Round
    Series B lead (Nov 2026)[1]
    Date
    Nov 2026

  • Union Square Ventures

    Round
    Series A lead (Dec 2025); also in the Series B[4]
    Date
    Dec 2025

  • Neo

    Round
    Seed lead; also in the Series A and B[1]
    Date
    —

Products and models

  • Business model

    Detail
    Robots-as-a-service: billed by the hour or by the pick, with no upfront purchase and no long-term contract[1]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Pricing

    Detail
    From $14 an hour. Palletizing and depalletizing: $14 to $18 per robot-hour, minimum 80 hours a month, $10,000 flat implementation fee and $8,000 refundable deposit. Case and each picking: per pick, 10% to 50% below the customer's current cost. Terms month to month; Cassie can also be bought outright[5]
    As of
    Nov 2026

  • Deployment notes

    Detail
    The latest Cassie deploys in two days[2]Self-reported
    As of
    May 2026

  • Product line

    Detail
    • Cassie: Single-arm mobile manipulator for case picking, palletizing and depalletizing; boxes up to 50 lb (22.6 kg), up to 14 cases per minute
    • Sonny: Two-armed semi-humanoid robot; its first job is e-commerce picking, and 100 of them run in its data factory
    [2]
    As of
    May 2026

  • Robot model

    Detail
    Ti0, its own vision-language-action (VLA) model, trained on data from its data factory and its remote tutors[2]
    As of
    May 2026

  • Data factory claims

    Detail
    Running the same policy across all 100 data-factory robots lets it "detect and correct robot behaviors 100x faster": an edge case that might take eight hours of robot operation to notice shows up in five minutes[2]Self-reported
    As of
    May 2026

  • Delivery

    Detail
    Robots delivered within 30 days and typically working one day after arrival[4]Self-reported
    As of
    Dec 2025

Relationships

Investors

  • Andreessen Horowitz: Series B lead (Nov 2026)[1]
  • Union Square Ventures: Series A lead (Dec 2025); also in the Series B[4]
  • Neo: Seed lead; also in the Series A and B[1]

Recent moves

  • Nov 2, 2026

    Move
    Raised a $75M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total to $117M[1]

  • May 2026

    Move
    Showed Data Factory 1, a 100-robot training facility at its Watertown headquarters, and the latest Cassie for case picking and palletizing[2]

  • Dec 1, 2025

    Move
    Raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures[4]

Sources

  1. TNW: Tutor Intelligence raises $75M from a16z (Nov 2026)
  2. The Robot Report: Tutor Intelligence builds Data Factory (May 2026)
  3. Tutor Intelligence: about
  4. SiliconANGLE: Tutor Intelligence raises $34M (Dec 2025)
  5. Tutor Intelligence: pricing (Nov 2026)