Tutor Intelligence

Robots that start real jobs before they can do them alone are the core of Tutor Intelligence's approach. The Watertown, Massachusetts company builds its own robot hardware, puts it to work in factories and warehouses, and has remote people, which it calls tutors, step in when a robot meets something it cannot handle. Each of those interventions becomes training data for the company's robot foundation models, with the aim that the number of tutors grows more slowly than the fleet.

Cassie at the end of the line

Cassie is the company's single-armed, autonomously mobile robot for bulk work: stacking cases onto pallets at the end of a production line, taking mixed pallets apart onto a line, and picking cases in warehouse aisles. Tutor says Cassie needs no changeovers between SKUs or pallet patterns and no changes to the customer's equipment, and that it has made millions of bulk picks in production across the United States.

Sonny and each picking

Sonny is a mobile, two-armed robot that the company calls semi-humanoid, built for more dexterous work. Its first job is e-commerce fulfilment: driving through existing warehouses, picking individual items out of racking and delivering finished orders to packing. Fleets of both robots build orders in bins or mixed pallets from a warehouse management system's instructions, and Tutor claims cost per pick falls by 10 to 50% without changes to the building.

Paying by the hour or by the pick

Pricing on the site starts at $14 an hour. Customers can pay by the hour or by the pick on month-to-month terms with support, maintenance and model updates included, or buy the robots outright with an annual service plan. The company says its customers range from family-owned manufacturers to Fortune 50 third-party logistics firms, and that its robots are in scaled deployment across North America.

Key facts

Founded: incorporated February 2021 Headquarters: Watertown, Massachusetts, United States People: Josh Gruenstein (co-founder and CEO) Funding: $75M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz (announced November 2026) Robots: Cassie (palletising, depalletising, case pick); Sonny (each pick) Pricing: from $14 an hour, usage-based or outright purchase Website: tutorintelligence.com