Problem
Need a helping hand?
Nowadays, we are witnessing mentally and physically exhausting work in factories and on production lines.
Repetitive activities turn workers into machines; workers who are difficult to replace are retiring; finding and training young workers to perform tedious labor is harder than ever in 2023 — and the US still logs >4,700 worker deaths in a year.
The robotics market lacks a general-purpose solution that can tackle any repetitive and unsafe labor.
Clone is a next-generation platform
designed to automate almost any task.
Solution
General-purpose, musculoskeletal androids
Years of experience, studying medical anatomy
have enabled us to create a 1:1 copy of the human hand,
the critical ingredient in making synthetic humans.
FUNCTIONAL BIOMIMETIC DESIGN
Monolithic Tendon-Muscles
Pressure-powered allows using both electrical and chemical power.
No metal elements, fully flexible muscle tissue.
Soft Tissues
The only rigid part of the construction is the bones.
The rest of the elements are made of soft tissues: ligaments,
tendons, trocars, veins, fat, skin and connective tissue.
Molded Bones
Molded carbon fiber bones provide
high strength and very low manufacturing cost.
Product
Humanoid hands
are just the beginning
Based on the knowledge gained from the process of creating
a synthetic hand, we will build a whole synthetic human body.
But what are hands without a mind to control them?
As of 2022, we can re-train robots in minutes by leveraging pre-trained representations1 from internet videos of humans toward motor control.
A 1:1 copy of the human hands in the video data will both accelerate learning and extend learning to more complex tasks.
With sufficient real world experience, our androids will have the ability to learn a new skill from just one human demonstration.
Traction
In the first year of operation, we improved the durability of the Clone Hand by >100X
Over 7 years of R&D, we learned how to build anthropomorphic, robotic hands with artificial muscles and custom valves that are 10X stronger and cheaper to manufacture than competitors' hands.
The Clone Hand, as an anthropomorphic embodiment, obtains 24X the signal from internet video data of human hands than parallel jaw grippers, and that's without high-resolution tactile skin, which will accelerate learning of new manipulation skills.
Customers
Affordable androids for all
We will reach the consumer market after we are prepared to mass manufacture androids with a fast and adaptive brain. As of today, we have received demand from the market for millions of androids, of which orders include:
Business model
Low-cost, mass production of Clones
The android's entire body will be made primarily from polymers, which are easy and cheap to mold and allow for a fast and inexpensive manufacturing process.
Since we manufacture in Poland, we significantly
reduce development and production costs compared to the United States.
Market
The market size for androids is in the hundreds
of billions to trillions of dollars.
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Vision and strategy
Impact
Our mission is to create intelligent, synthetic humans
The lifestyle of a human in 2023 is not conducive to repetitive labor.
Monotonous activities of daily life such as cleaning, gardening, and cooking can be performed by androids with human-level hands.
Funding
Clone has raised $640,000 from angel investors and venture capitalists, including the co-founder of Y Combinator and former CTO of Coinbase.
Founders
Summary
"In an age of large language models, the world lacks a viable, general-purpose robot that can scale up autonomous data collection. With millions of Clones deployed, we will create rich, visuotactile world models, trained on diverse video and sensorimotor data, to endow Clones with a human-level understanding of the world."
—Dhanush