The founder behind Waymo unveils new stealth robotics startup, Dulo
Sebastian Thrun, the engineer behind Google’s self-driving program that became Waymo, revealed on Tuesday that he is starting a new robotics company called Dulo.
Thrun mentioned the new company only briefly at the end of his keynote at Actuate, a robotics conference, in San Francisco. He named the venture but did not share any further details. “I am not speaking about the company yet,” he said, according to Business Insider. “It’s under stealth, it’s very small. But it’s in robotics.”
He did not share any information about funding, products, or a launch date. As of this week, there is almost nothing about Dulo that is public. The Insider article remains the only detailed report on the company.
The best clue comes from a simple webpage hosted by Stanford. It says Dulo builds “foundation models for hardware design,” aiming for “manufacturing at lightspeed.” Foundation models are large, general-purpose AI systems that have already changed how text, images, and code are created. Dulo’s idea is to use these same techniques to design and produce physical machines and their parts.
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