Embodied AI is a Swiss EPFL spinout developing AIR, a wheeled dual-arm humanoid designed to work alongside people in factories. Its Physical AI stack combines compliant, lightweight robotic hardware, teleoperation and on-site imitation learning for industrial manipulation.
Based in Lausanne with an office in Rome, Embodied AI was founded by CEO Francesco Stella, CTO Kai Junge and COO Max Polzin. Its AIR wheeled humanoid was unveiled at Humanoid Europe 2026 in Munich on November 6, 2026. AIR uses lightweight tendon-driven compliant arms designed for safer human-robot collaboration, while human operators initially teleoperate tasks and generate training data for task-specific AI models that progressively gain autonomy. The company reports paid industrial deployments of its earlier dual-arm robotic cell in electronics and automotive-related manufacturing, including a customer cable-handling test with 98% reliability; these results should not be attributed to commercial AIR deployments. Its website also lists Flex02 manipulation cells and HELIX soft manipulators. The company announced an initial funding round led by Faber VC in September 2026, with the amount undisclosed. CE marking for AIR is planned for 2027.