Tutor Intelligence Puts Hourly-Billed AI Robots in US Factories
a16z · x · 2026-11-03
Tutor Intelligence co-founder Josh Gruenstein on a16z's podcast: the 'fully automated factory' is the top 0.01% of US manufacturing logistics — most warehouses still rely on back-breaking manual labor with 55-year-old average workers and 3-month turnover. Tutor builds robots in Massachusetts, charges by the hour with no upfront cost, and uses human 'tutors' to take over and teach stuck robots, generating training data. From first sales call to working robot takes 3 months.
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