On a cold morning in Dallas shortly before Christmas last year, CEO Colin Webb watched one of his robots work an eight-hour shift alongside warehouse workers. The wheeled machine, equipped with two robotic arms, spent the day packing beauty products into pouches as part of a pilot.
A few miles away, a person inside an Airbnb controlled its every move using a Meta Quest headset.
The shift tested the unconventional model behind Webb’s startup, Avatar Robotics. Rather than waiting for robots to become autonomous, the company puts them to work in warehouses, packing and sorting products under the control of teleoperators, who puppeteer their…
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