Robotics researcher Oier Mees joins Prometheus to build general intelligence for the physical world
oier_mees · x · 2026-09-02
Robotics researcher Oier Mees announced he is joining Prometheus in Zurich to work toward an "artificial general engineer" — general intelligence for the physical world.
His thesis: AI has made extraordinary progress in the digital world, but its impact on the physical economy remains limited. While much of the industry scales today's frontier models, Prometheus pursues a different frontier — dramatically accelerating the loop from imagination to invention, discovery, engineering and manufacturing.
He says his own path has been through robotics, and highlights the unusually high-caliber team, without sharing further technical details.
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