robotiko

Robotiko is a private robotics and artificial intelligence company founded in 2021 in San Francisco, United States. The company emerged from a partnership between former researchers of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and engineers from the MIT Robotics Laboratory. According to its founding documents, the company’s mission is to develop affordable modular robotic platforms that can be customized for industrial automation, healthcare assistance, and consumer use.

The flagship product line of Robotiko consists of the R2 modular humanoid robot and the Epsilon autonomous mobile platform. R2 is designed with a token-based plug‑in architecture that allows developers to add or swap arms, sensors, and locomotion modules. Epsilon supports autonomous navigation in cluttered environments and can be reconfigured to support warehouse logistics or field service tasks. Robotiko’s software stack, called Kineme, incorporates deep learning for object recognition and reinforcement learning for task planning, and it is distributed under an open‑source license.

Robotiko has been cited in several academic papers on modular robotics and human‑robot interaction. In 2023, the company partnered with the University of Toronto to publish a study on lightweight exoskeleton assistance for repetitive manual work. The company’s research team has also contributed code to the OpenAI Robotics Platform and hosted joint workshops with IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. Other suppliers have licensed Robotiko’s modular design framework for use in educational robotics kits.

Criticism of Robotiko has focused on supply chain concerns. In 2024, media outlets reported that the company’s primary module supplier in Shenzhen faced issues related to labor practices, prompting Robotiko to announce a transition to alternative sources. The company has also been scrutinized for its data privacy policy, as the Kineme operating system collects sensor data from user environments. In response, Robotiko announced an end‑to‑end encryption framework that complies with the European General Data Protection Regulation and the U.S. California Consumer Privacy Act.