Genesis AI
Paris and Bay Area robot-brain startup that went full stack with its own hand and the wheeled Eno robot
Startup · Prototype · Robot foundation model · Paris, Île-de-France, France · Founded 2025 · genesis.ai
- Valuation · not disclosed
Also active in United States.
Profile
Genesis AI, founded in 2025 with teams in Paris and San Carlos, California, started as a robot foundation-model lab and has gone full stack. In May 2026 it showed its GENE-26.5 model with a human-scale robotic hand, and in Jun 2026 it unveiled Eno, a wheeled, deliberately non-humanoid general-purpose robot. It plans production and first deployments with logistics and manufacturing customers by end-2026. Its $105M seed is one of France's largest.
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People
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Flagship robots
- GENE-26.5 AI model
Robot foundation model for dexterous manipulation - Eno Mobile manipulator
Wheeled general-purpose robot with a foldable tower and human-like hands; production and first deployments planned by end-2026 - Genesis hand Dexterous hand
Human-scale robotic hand, designed with Wuji Tech
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$105M
Seed · Jul 1, 2025
Led by Eclipse, Khosla Ventures
Also Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, Vladlen Koltun.
Total raised
$105M
As of Jun 16, 2026
Seed round only, as of Jun 2026
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 72all roles
- Top location
- Bay Area · 43%31 of 72 roles
- Top role area
- AI & foundation models21 roles · 32% of 65 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 72 open roles (all roles)
- Bay Area43%31 roles
- Paris35%25 roles
- London21%15 roles
- Remote, US1%1 roles
Locations are where the posting says the job is based, not where the robots are built. A posting that lists several sites is counted once, under the first.
Role mix · 65 engineering & ops roles
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Roles are sorted into a fixed list of areas by job title. Percentages are of engineering & ops roles. The other 7 open roles (finance, HR, legal, sales, facilities and similar) are in the total but not shown here.
Notable postings
- JobSenior role in AI & foundation models, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior data collection operator (FR)Paris
- JobSenior role in Other engineering & ops, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Technical Program Manager (Paris,France)Paris
- JobSenior role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasMember of Technical Staff, ITBay Area
- JobSenior role in Field service & deployment, one of the company's largest hiring areasDeployment Program and Operation ManagerBay Area
- JobSenior role in Manufacturing engineering, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (Robot Production)Bay Area
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Genesis AI postings, read from its Ashby job board (jobs.ashbyhq.com/genesis).
Trademarks
No US filings since 2025 (last checked ).
Source: USPTO Trademark Search, matched on the company’s legal names. Rechecked on the 1st and 15th of each month. A filing shows intent to use a name in the US, not a launched product.
Competitors
Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.
Skild AI
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: Skild AI builds Skild Brain, a foundation model meant to run on any robot body, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
Physical Intelligence
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: Physical Intelligence builds the general-purpose π robot foundation models, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
Generalist AI
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: Generalist AI builds the GEN robot foundation models meant to run on many robot types, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
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Rhoda AI
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
FieldAI
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: FieldAI builds Field Foundation Models for robots working in unstructured sites, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
Google DeepMind (Gemini Robotics)
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: Google DeepMind develops the Gemini Robotics models, used by partners such as Apptronik, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
NVIDIA
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: NVIDIA supplies Jetson Thor compute and the open GR00T humanoid foundation models, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
mimic
Adjacent competitorBoth pair dexterous hands with AI for robot manipulation: mimic develops dexterous robot hands and the AI to run them, while Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot.
Recent news
- — Unveils Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot; deployments planned by end-2026 PR Newswire
- — Unveils GENE-26.5 model and its own dexterous hand TechCrunch
Sources
- Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots (TechCrunch) (Jul 1, 2025)
- Genesis AI Unveils GENE-26.5 (PR Newswire) (May 6, 2026)
- Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows (TechCrunch) (May 6, 2026)
- Introducing Eno: Genesis AI's First General-Purpose Robot (PR Newswire) (Jun 16, 2026)
- French startup bets on non-humanoid design in crowded AI robot race (Reuters via Euronext) (Jun 16, 2026)
Confidence: high.