🔬 Corporate#71 Emeryville, CA, United States· Est. 2017
Covariant — AI Robotics Research
Building the "AI brain" for warehouse robots using foundation models. Covariant's RFM-1 (Robot Foundation Model) enables robots to pick any object without explicit programming, deployed at Amazon-scale logistics.
robot AI brainwarehouse pickingfoundation modelsgraspinglogistics
Notable achievements
RFM-1 robot foundation model, $222M raised, logistics picking at scale, ABB acquisition discussions, Berkeley BAIR spinout.
Notable work
RFM-1Picking at scale
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
LEARNING
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Artificial Intelligence enhanced smart welding islands: Foundation models revolutionizing manufacturing
Xiwei Wu, Wei Wu, Qiqi Chen +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
OTHER
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Hylos: Operability Contracts for Model-Native Spatial Intelligence
Christopher Da Silva
2026
HRI
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Robotics-Inspired Guardrails for Foundation Models in Socially Sensitive Domains
Rebecca Ramnauth, Drazen Brscic, Brian Scassellati
2026
SURGICAL
A Hybrid Compliant-Tendon Laparoscopic Instrument for Distal Articulation and Grasping: Design and Experimental Validation.
Kumar P, Ravi B
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
Monocular Vision Based Control Framework for Grasping
Shail Jadav, Dongheui Lee
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
GraspIT: A Dataset Bridging the Sim-to-Real gap and back for Validated Grasping SE(3) Pose Generation
Paul Koch. Adem Karakurt, André Sers
2026