Innate provides MARS, an open‑source, general‑purpose robot that ships with onboard compute and a complete AI stack, enabling developers to run manipulation, navigation, and other skills out of the box. Its programmable foundation agent, BASIC, can reason over long‑term goals, orchestrate modular skills, and adapt in real time, while the platform’s open hardware and software let users add sensors, tools, and custom behaviors. The system includes a rapid skill‑training workflow using a detachable arm and smartphone interface, fostering a community‑driven ecosystem for embodied AI applications.
Funding
$17M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Current robot platforms are proprietary, complex to set up, and limited to specific tasks, restricting developers and makers from creating custom embodied AI applications. This hampers experimentation and the broader adoption of general‑purpose physical AI agents.
Solution
Innate offers MARS, an open‑source, general‑purpose robot that ships with a complete AI stack and a programmable foundation agent called BASIC. The robot is ready to use out of the box, requiring only unboxing, pairing, and running starter behaviors, while providing onboard compute for autonomous operation. BASIC can reason over long‑term goals, invoke modular skills, and adapt in real time, enabling developers to create and share new behaviors without deep robotics expertise. Physical skills can be trained quickly—often in under 30 minutes of data collection—using an attachable arm that works with a standard phone. The platform is fully extensible: users can add sensors, modify hardware, and contribute software, fostering a community‑driven ecosystem of reusable robot capabilities.
Target Audience
Primary customers are robotics developers, AI researchers, and hobbyist makers who need a flexible, programmable robot platform for prototyping and deploying embodied AI applications.
Features
- Plug‑and‑play hardware with onboard compute, eliminating the need for external processing units
- BASIC foundation agent that performs goal reasoning, skill orchestration, and real‑time adaptation
- Modular skill library (e.g., physical manipulation, digital computation) accessible via simple APIs
- Rapid skill training workflow using a detachable arm and a smartphone interface, requiring less than 30 minutes of data
- Open‑source software stack and hardware design, allowing users to add sensors, tools, and custom behaviors
- Community sharing platform for behaviors and extensions, encouraging collaborative development
- Integrated development environment for writing, testing, and deploying new robot programs