Apprentice — A Real-World RL Platform
Machines that think.
Bodies that act.
Apprentice is a compliant, hydraulic humanoid built to generate the contact-rich data real-world reinforcement learning needs — for frontier AI labs and research groups.
The Platform
Apprentice
A general-purpose hydraulic humanoid — soft, compliant, and built to generate the contact-rich data real-world reinforcement learning needs. Where rigid humanoids trade safety for speed, compliance gives Apprentice both: a body safe enough to work anywhere, and rich enough tactile signal to teach itself the rest.
General Purpose
One robot. Every task.
Works With People
Built for collaboration, not automation.
Safe by Design
Compliance is architecture, not an afterthought.
For Research Labs
Bring Apprentice into your lab.
We’re working with a small number of frontier AI labs and university research groups to put Apprentice to work generating real-world RL data. If that’s you, we’d like to talk early.
Talk to us about ApprenticeWhat a pilot looks like
- Early access to hardware
- Direct sim-to-real support from the team
- A say in what we build next
What’s Coming
A brighter, more capable future
is arriving faster than you think.
We think the machines of tomorrow should feel less like tools and more like teammates — optimistic, capable, and genuinely useful in everyday life. That’s the future we’re building toward, one step at a time.
Join the Team
Small team. Outsized ownership.
We’re early — which means the people who join now will shape far more than their job description. If that sounds exciting rather than daunting, we’d like to meet you.
View open rolesShip real things, fast
Small teams, short feedback loops, and the ownership to match.
Work directly with founders
No layers between your ideas and what gets built next.
Help define the culture
Early enough that what you build here becomes how we work.