Infra for teams that own their physical AI

We research and build the infrastructure teams use to train, improve, and prove machines in the real world, without a priesthood.

Testbed is a robotics research and product company. Our mission is a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to build and iterate on their own physical AI, regardless of expertise. We pursue that by researching how machines improve in the real world, and by building the infrastructure those teams run on.

Foundation labs own the brains. Hardware vendors own the robots. Open toolkits leave the hard parts as homework. Teams that ship software to real machines still lack a productized stack to train, measure, compare, and prove the next version without a small army of specialists. That infrastructure is what we build.

Right now we are early: we publish research and open work as we go. Products come later. The lab comes first.

Programming should be as easy as possible for people to understand and use. The most important thing is not the machine: it’s making it accessible to everyone. Grace Hopper believed that. Today, robotics faces the same challenge she solved decades ago. Testbed exists to bring that same democratizing spirit to physical AI by putting serious research into the tools builders actually use.