Rhoda AI
FutureVision: a robot brain pre-trained on internet video to predict how the physical world moves
Scaleup · Pilot · Robot foundation model · Palo Alto, California, United States · Founded 2024 · rhoda.ai
- Funding · details not disclosed
Profile
Rhoda AI left stealth in Mar 2026 with FutureVision, a robot foundation model that learns how objects move from hundreds of millions of internet videos and then controls robots in closed loop. It runs on Rhoda's own systems in industrial pilots and is meant to work with many kinds of robot hardware. CEO Jagdeep Singh previously founded QuantumScape. It raised a $450M Series A at a $1.7B valuation.
The week in humanoid robotics, funding and AI, with the sources linked. Free, in your inbox.
One email a week. Free. Unsubscribe any time.
People
- Jagdeep Singh FounderCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer@startupjagHandle linked from company site
- Gordon Wetzstein FounderCo-founder and Scientific Advisor@GordonWetzsteinHandle linked from company site
- Andrew Wooten FounderCo-founder and Chief Product Officer@andrewwooten96Handle linked from company site
As of . X handles are shown only when we could confirm they belong to the person.
Appearances
Talks, panels and interviews by this company’s leaders, newest first. What a speaker said is their own claim, not our finding.
- USPublishedPodcast
Automated with Brian Heater (A3 / automate.org)
“Jagdeep Singh: Teaching Robots From Internet Video at Rhoda AI”
Jagdeep Singh, Co-founder & CEO
Summary (From the transcript)
Singh said Rhoda's model, pre-trained on hundreds of millions of video clips, learns a new task from 10 to 20 hours of robot data, and relearned a container-folding task at a factory with about three hours of extra data. He said Rhoda plans to ship its model on off-the-shelf hardware very soon while it builds its own wheeled mobile manipulator, including its own actuators, tactile sensing and hands. He also said customers must give Rhoda a perpetual license to train on data from their sites.
What Jagdeep said (the speaker’s own claims, not our findings)
- New tasks need 10-20 hours of robot data after video pre-training; a factory container-folding task was relearned with about 3 hours of factory data (Singh's claim).
- Rhoda plans to deploy its model on off-the-shelf hardware very soon and thinks it could be the first autonomous manipulation-capable robot deployed at scale (Singh's claim; no date given).
- Its own hardware targets about 45 kg payload close to the body and 18-19 kg far from it (about double the OSHA guideline), three years of continuous industrial operation, and CE-certifiable subsystems (Singh's claim).
- The robot is a wheeled mobile manipulator with 7-degree-of-freedom arms; Rhoda is building its own actuators and tactile sensing and weighing three-finger hands (Singh's claim).
- Rhoda bought third-party humanoids early on and burned out one motor within a day and another within a week (Singh's claim).
- Customers must grant an irrevocable, perpetual license for Rhoda to train on data from their facilities (Singh's claim).
- Rhoda has spoken with 100+ customers and has not seen a next-gen autonomous manipulation robot doing work in the field (Singh's claim).
- Current tasks include decanting ball bearings for an automotive customer and folding plastic containers at another company (Singh's claim; customers not named).
Coverage and sources:Event pageTranscript
As of . Items we could not verify are marked or left out.
Flagship products
- FutureVision AI model
Video-predictive robot foundation model, to be licensed to other hardware makers over time
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$450M
Series A · Mar 10, 2026
Khosla Ventures, Temasek, Mayfield, Premji Invest, Capricorn.
Valuation
$1.7B
valuation at Series A · Mar 10, 2026
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 43all roles
- Top location
- Mountain View · 95%41 of 43 roles
- Top role area
- AI & foundation models10 roles · 24% of 42 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 43 open roles (all roles)
- Mountain View, California, US95%41 roles
- Munich, Germany5%2 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 · 42 engineering & ops roles
Show 6 more areas
Roles are sorted into a fixed list of areas by job title. Percentages are of engineering & ops roles. The other 1 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 areasResearch Member of Technical Staff- Training SystemsMountain View, California, US
- JobSenior role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasResearch Member of Technical Staff- Data InfrastructureMountain View, California, US
- JobSenior role in Actuators & mechanical, one of the company's largest hiring areasStaff Thermal Systems Integration EngineerMountain View, California, US
- JobSenior role in Quality & test, one of the company's largest hiring areasResearch Member of Technical Staff- Robot Learning Systems & ReliabilityMountain View, California, US
- JobSenior role in Field service & deployment, one of the company's largest hiring areasField Robotics Deployment LeadMountain View, California, US
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Rhoda AI postings, read from its Ashby job board (jobs.ashbyhq.com/rhoda-ai).
Trademarks
3 names filed in the US since 2025 · last checked .
- RHODA AI Allowed, extension grantedDisinfectant robots for use in scientific and medical research.
- RHODA Allowed, extension grantedAdvanced product research in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.
- Logo (no words) Allowed, extension grantedDisinfectant robots for use in scientific and medical research.
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 Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
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 Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
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 Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
Show 5 more
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 Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
Genesis AI
Direct competitorBoth build general robot AI models that other companies' robots can run: Genesis AI builds a robot-brain model and now its own hand and the Eno robot, while Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
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 Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
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 Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
Enigma
Adjacent competitorBoth build robot models meant for any hardware: Enigma builds robot models for any hardware and runs 100+ robot arms online for the public, while Rhoda AI is building a robot brain pre-trained on internet video.
Recent news
Sources
- Rhoda AI Exits Stealth with $450 Million Series A to Bring Robots Out of the Lab and Into the Real World (Rhoda AI) (Mar 10, 2026)
- Rhoda AI Exits Stealth with $450 Million Series A (Business Wire) (Mar 10, 2026)
- Rhoda AI raises $450 million at $1.7 billion valuation, unveils robot intelligence platform (Reuters) (Mar 10, 2026)
- Rhoda AI leadership team (Oct 8, 2026)
Confidence: high.