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TRLC - Affordable robotic workers

AI-powered robot platform that makes automation accessible to businesses.

Hi 👋 this is Jannik - Founder of The Robot Learning Company.

TL;DR: We make automation accessible to businesses with an affordable, general-purpose robot platform designed to automate repetitive, stationary tasks.

The Problem

Traditional automation is broken for tasks outside of factories. It’s expensive, rigid, and slow to deploy. Each new use-case demands a custom $100,000+ integration, months of setup, and only works in tightly controlled environments.

General-purpose robots promise to change that. The dream: drop-in systems that replace expensive human labor with cheap, flexible robotic labor. But in reality, most general robotic systems don’t justify their cost. The math doesn’t work:

Value = Human labor saved – Robot cost

Today, robots lose this equation in two key areas:

  • Low productivity: they don’t save enough labor
  • Hardware, setup, and training costs are too high

The future doesn’t need more traditional robotic arms - it needs smarter, cheaper ones that can adapt quickly.

Our Solution

We’re building affordable and easy-to-deploy general-purpose robotic workers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_uDCFCBDaE

We combine:

  • Low-cost hardware: a pair of stationary robotic arms for under $10,000
  • Self-learning control software: we use imitation learning and offline reinforcement learning to adapt the robot to new tasks and environments from just a handful of demonstrations

This makes robotic automation accessible to a far broader set of businesses - even ones that previously couldn’t justify the investment.

About Us

I’m Jannik, a former robot learning researcher at UC Berkeley and TU Munich, with a degree in Mechatronics. I’ve contributed to frontier open-source projects in robotic manipulation, and my work in the space has been featured by TechCrunch.

Our Ask

We’re looking for pilot partners who want to automate repetitive manual tasks in their operations - and help us build the future of low-cost robotic labor.

If you’re interested, email me: jannik@robot-learning.co