Ex-CMU researcher who co-founded Genesis AI to build a universal robotics foundation model and a horizontal platform for general-purpose physical AI. Emerged from stealth (Jul 2025) with a $105M seed led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel and AI pioneers Daniela Rus and Vladlen Koltun. In May 2026 it unveiled GENE-26.5, a full-stack 'AI brain' demoing human-level dexterous manipulation on in-house robot hands built with Wuji Tech.