# C5R: robotics company

Canonical ID: `5da96215-bca9-49d1-ba39-9b94b4b64df8`

## Key facts

- **Mission (company-claimed):** Builds physical research facilities where frontier AI models carry out scientific work.
- **Facility-0 (company-claimed):** Its first model-driven research facility, in [San Francisco](/locations/san-francisco-ca.md), brought up in 12 weeks, covering protein design, medicinal chemistry and solid-state materials.
- **How Facility-0 runs (company-claimed):** Software runs instruments from hydraulic presses to pipettes; models design experiments as code, direct equipment and people, analyze results and replan. Autonomy not independently audited.
- **SciUniverse benchmark (company-claimed):** Tests whether frontier models can turn scientific goals into verifiable results in chemistry, biology and materials science, in Facility-0 or its digital twin.

- **Slug:** c5r
- **Status:** private
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is C5R?

C5R builds research facilities for frontier AI models: physical environments where models design experiments, operate instruments, learn from results, and are evaluated on real scientific work. Facility-0 in [San Francisco](/locations/san-francisco-ca.md) is the prototype (biology, chemistry, materials), paired with the SciUniverse evaluation harness.

### What does C5R make?

C5R has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. C5R builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them.

### Is C5R publicly traded?

No. C5R is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in C5R?

C5R is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is C5R headquartered?

C5R is headquartered in [San Francisco, California, USA](/locations/san-francisco-usa.md).

### Who owns C5R?

C5R is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is C5R a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, C5R ranks in roughly the top 23% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (2)

1. https://c5r.net/ · 2026-09-24
2. https://glitchwire.com/news/c5r-built-a-research-lab-run-by-ai-in-12-weeks-the-sciuniverse-benchmark-shows-w/ · 2026-09-24

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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