Overview
Stealth robotics startup founded by Sebastian Thrun, developing foundation models for hardware design with the goal of enabling manufacturing at lightspeed. The company's team includes veterans from Waymo, Google Brain, and Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). Dulo was publicly revealed at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco in August 2026.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Status
Focus
Team origin
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Dulo has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Sebastian Thrun Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Sebastian Thruncofounderno longer at company
previously at Waymo, Stanford University
Safety record
No incidents on record for Dulo.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Dulo in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Dulo has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- dulo x nvidiawithNVIDIA1114technology—operating
- dulo x awswithAWS976technology—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 19, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-19
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-19
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Dulo.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Dulo from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Sebastian Thrun kündigt Startup Dulo an: KI-Foundation-Modelle für Hardware-Design
IT Boltwise analysis of Thrun's Dulo announcement, examining the foundation models for hardware design concept and the manufacturing-at-lightspeed goal in the context of Thrun's…
Sebastian Thrun Launches Dulo, a Stealth Robotics Startup
Benzinga coverage of Sebastian Thrun's new stealth robotics startup Dulo, focused on AI foundation models for hardware design and enabling manufacturing at lightspeed.
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun launches robotics startup Dulo to design hardware with AI
Digital Today coverage of Sebastian Thrun's announcement of Dulo at the Actuate conference, noting the team draws from Waymo, Google Brain, and Stanford AI Lab.
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a new robotics startup
Business Insider exclusive revealing Sebastian Thrun's stealth robotics startup Dulo, developing foundation models for hardware design, announced at the Actuate robotics…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/dulo.md
- RSS feed: /companies/dulo/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/165f9ccd-74af-4df5-a50d-606ba10344f2
- Revision history: /companies/dulo/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Dulo against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 3, 2026