One intelligence, shared by every robot we deploy.
Sentient builds shared operating intelligence for robots doing repetitive work in packaging, kitting, laundry and refurbishment. What one robot learns, the whole fleet knows.
We're not another automation shop wiring up one cell at a time. Every robot we deploy feeds one shared operating intelligence: a fix, a new product or an edge case learned on one floor reaches every robot on every other floor. We start on packing floors, then go where people can't easily: data centers, the deep sea and, one day, orbit.
01 — The playbook
We run the same four steps on every floor. The last one is why the fleet gets better with every deployment.
We spend a week on your floor. We film every task, count the labor hours behind it, and rank the jobs by how many hours they eat and how easily a robot can do them.
1 week · every task on video
We start with the dullest, most repetitive job. We record demonstrations on your real product and train an off-the-shelf model on them. The arm is cheap and bought, never built.
Off-the-shelf arms · best available model
Failure detection, automatic retries and a remote operator for edge cases keep the line moving. Every intervention becomes training data for the shared model, retrained weekly.
Detect · retry · remote fallback
What one robot learns, every robot gets. A new product, a fix or an edge case solved on one floor ships to the whole fleet, so each new site starts smarter than the last.
One intelligence · every robot
Why Sentient
Robot models can now learn a task from a handful of demonstrations. Traditional automation still builds one cell, programs it once and leaves it alone. Our robots share one operating intelligence, so every floor we add makes every robot better.
After install
Traditional automation: Each cell learns nothing new
Sentient: Every robot learns from every floor
New product
Traditional automation: An integrator reprograms the cell
Sentient: Learned from a few demonstrations
Edge cases
Traditional automation: The line stops until someone comes
Sentient: A remote operator steps in, and the fix reaches the whole fleet
Over time
Traditional automation: Day 1,000 looks like day 1
Sentient: Better with every weekly update
Hardware
Traditional automation: Custom cell, built for one job
Sentient: Off-the-shelf arms, swapped when better ones ship
Cost to you
Traditional automation: $150K+ upfront
Sentient: $0 upfront, a share of the labor saved
The stack — what we buy, what we build
The part we build and own: one brain that learns from every robot we deploy.
↑ we buy the bottom three layers and own the top one
What we automate
Where it goes
The further a robot is from people, the less a remote operator can help, and the more it has to already know. That's where shared intelligence matters most. We start on packing floors, where we can prove it fastest, and take the same skills where people can't easily go.
01 — Packing floor
Pick mixed products into cartons, label them and build cases, on floors where the product changes every week.
Where it goes
The further a robot is from people, the less a remote operator can help, and the more it has to already know. That's where shared intelligence matters most. We start on packing floors, where we can prove it fastest, and take the same skills where people can't easily go.
0 m
Pick mixed products into cartons, label them and build cases, on floors where the product changes every week.
0 m · indoors
Pull and reseat drives, swap cables and check rack lights in halls that run 24/7 with few people on the floor.
−3,000 m
Inspect pipes and hulls, turn valves and clean sensors where every dive is slow, costly and risky.
+400 km
Refuel, repair and swap modules where help arrives late: 1.3 seconds each way to the Moon, up to 22 minutes to Mars.
Sentient is a small team building one shared intelligence for robots in real businesses. We start with one partner and one task. If you run a labor-heavy business and want to be that first partner, we'd like to meet you.
Built by engineers from
Robotics
IIT
Common questions
No. We start with the shifts you can't fill and the jobs nobody wants. Your best people become robot tenders and quality control. When headcount comes down, it happens through attrition, not layoffs.
Free automation audit
Book 20 minutes below. Tell us what you make, how many people do the task and how many shifts you run. We'll tell you honestly whether a robot can do it, and roughly what it would save.
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