WORLDTECHTutor Intelligence raises $75M from a16z to put robots to work by the hour
What happened
Tutor Intelligence, a robotics startup in Watertown, Massachusetts, has raised a $75 million Series B (an early stage of company funding) round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round brings its total funding to $117 million, the company said in a statement on Monday.
Union Square Ventures, which led the Series A, and Neo, which led the seed round, also invested. Tutor Intelligence has raised funding to further develop its picking robots, networked intelligence, and commercial deployments.
today said it has raised $75 million in Series B funding as it works toward general-purpose robotics.
Investors and funding Tutor Intelligence’s robots, Sonny and Cassie, work in US factories and warehouses with help from remote human ‘tutors’.
Tutor trains its Sonny robot on real-world manipulation tasks. “It’s not only that Tutor’s models let robots do jobs that robots have never been able to do before,” stated Josh Gruenstein, co-founder and CEO of Tutor Intelligence.
Tutor Intelligence spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( MIT CSAIL ) in 2021. Customers pay by the hour or by the pick.