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

Also active in United States.

Valuation has not been disclosed.

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.

People

• ZX
  Zhou Xian Founder

  Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

  @zhou_xian_Role confirmed in their X bio
• TG
  Théophile Gervet Founder

  Co-founder and President

  Previously a research scientist at Mistral AI.

  @theo_gervetHandle linked from personal site

Sources: Genesis AI Unveils GENE-26.5 (PR Newswire) · Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows (TechCrunch) · As of Oct 8, 2026. X handles are shown only when we could confirm they belong to the person.

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

Competitors

Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.

• Skild AI

  Direct competitor

  USRobot foundation model

  Both 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.

  Sources (2)

  • Genesis AI (company website)
  • Skild AI (company website)

• Physical Intelligence

  Direct competitor

  USRobot foundation model

  Both 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.

  Sources (2)

  • Genesis AI (company website)
  • Physical Intelligence (company website)

• Rhoda AI

  Direct competitor

  USRobot foundation model

  Both 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.

  Sources (2)

  • Genesis AI (company website)
  • Rhoda AI (company website)

Recent news

• Jun 16, 2026 — Unveils Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot; deployments planned by end-2026 PR Newswire
• May 6, 2026 — 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.

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