General Robotics

Engineering Excellence

A life of your own.

General Robotics is pursuing embodied AI: intelligent machines that can understand the physical world and perform useful work within it. Our ambition spans many applications, with a special place for the home.

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Concept illustration: a woman reads at a sunlit kitchen table with a cat asleep beside her, while a cream and forest-green household robot folds linen. A river city with yellow bridges shows through the window.
Concept artwork · An afternoon at home

Our purpose

We believe progress should give people more freedom to pursue what matters to them: to learn, create, care for one another, explore, and build lives of their own choosing.

Our motto

Engineering Excellence

Our motto expresses the standard we are working toward: capable machines, thoughtful design, and craftsmanship worthy of the people who will live and work with them.

  1. Capable machines

    Robots that understand the physical world and do useful work within it.

  2. Thoughtful design

    Engineering that belongs comfortably in the rooms where people live.

  3. Craftsmanship

    Made to a standard worthy of the people who will live and work with them.

Beauty and engineering

Parts of the same pursuit.

Inspired by Pittsburgh’s tradition of making, the artistry of the great international expositions, and the optimism of early technology, we see beauty and engineering as parts of the same pursuit. We want to build a future that cherishes what people already love while opening new possibilities.

Engraved crest: a robot’s open hand releases a bird into a garden, framed by ribbons reading General Robotics and Engineering Excellence.
Concept illustration: a grand glass-and-iron exposition hall hung with royal-red banners. An inventor, an older craftsman and a child gather around a wooden mechanical wing while a robot assists.
Concept artwork · The Grand Exposition
Engineering drawing of Wheeler from the front: a round covered base on two drive wheels with a lidar on top, a tall vertical lift, and a head carrying a touchscreen lettered Wheeler and a depth camera on a servo mount.
Front view
Engineering drawing of Wheeler from the rear: the arm ending in a claw, the open back of the head, and a power switch and meter set into the top of the base.
Rear view

Where we are today

At the beginning, and building.

We are an early-stage company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our first machine, Wheeler, is a wheeled mobile robot with an arm on a vertical lift. It is in engineering development: designed in CAD and driven in simulation.

Wheeler is a heavily modified version of the original ReallyUsefulRobot, created by James Bruton’s XRobots.

Alongside it we are writing the software that operates our robots, and doing the research in perception and manipulation that a capable home robot needs.

The paintings on this page are concept artwork. They express the future we aspire to build, not products or specifications. The drawings show our current development model, not a finished design.

Contact

Write to us.

We are glad to hear from engineers, collaborators and anyone curious about what we are building.

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