🔬 Corporate#71 Emeryville, CA, USA· Est. 2017
Covariant — AI Robotics Research
Building the "AI brain" for warehouse robots using foundation models. Covariant's RFM-1 (Robot Foundation Model) enables robots to pick any object without explicit programming, deployed at Amazon-scale logistics.
robot AI brainwarehouse pickingfoundation modelsgraspinglogistics
Notable achievements
RFM-1 robot foundation model, $222M raised, logistics picking at scale, ABB acquisition discussions, Berkeley BAIR spinout.
Notable work
RFM-1Picking at scale
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
Open access
ComPose: When to Trust Hands for Object Pose Tracking
Jisu Shin, Junoh Lee, JunGyu Lee +5 more
2026