What Work Do Tutor Intelligence Robots Do in Factories?

Josh Gruenstein says Tutor Intelligence builds two factory robots. Cassie is the heavy-duty machine: one arm, many suction cups, and foundation models in the 200 to 400 million parameter range, aimed at the handwork of moving pallets and cases. Sunny is a wheeled industrial semi-humanoid with a higher payload, more speed, and collaborative safety so it can work near people. A fleet of 100 Sunnies runs in Boston collecting data, and a growing fleet does two-handed work at customer sites.

Inside manufacturing and logistics, those two can probably do 80 to 90 percent of the work. The picture from How It's Made is the rare fully automated plant. Most million-square-foot facilities still have people on conveyor belts and folding tables. Packing a box is still a person's job, even for something like an iPhone. The work Cassie takes is backbreaking and hard to hire for, with about three months of turnover and an average worker age of about 55.

The robots cannot go outside. Wheels and limited traction cannot handle gravel, so construction and landfill recovery would need legs. A Cassie or a Sunny is also too industrial for a home.