The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Tau Robotics: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region. 3 sources back the record.
CategoryHumanoids
Overview
Tau Robotics is a San Francisco-based humanoid robotics company building a general AI for robots. Founded by Alexander Koch and Cornelia Weinzierl, the company launched a humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30/hour in July 2026, with humanoids jointly controlled by human operators and AI. Koch previously created the widely-adopted low-cost Koch robotic arm, later popularized through Hugging face's LeRobot framework.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Co-founder
Service price
Service type
Control mode
Funding stage
Lead investor
Total fundingsee investors →
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Tau Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jul 2026. Explore where Tau Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Tau Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Alexander Koch CEO & Co-founder, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Cornelia Weinzierl Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Alexander Kochcofounderno longer at company
- Cornelia Weinzierlcofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Tau Robotics.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Tau Robotics1 deployment
Recent coverage
Tau Robotics in third-party press
Peers
176 peers across 2 segments. Every Tau Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(101)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIST Humanoid Research Groupdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Acuminodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgiBotdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
industrial robot(75)
33 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2051.61304640928) · leader Mind Robotics at 3415%
- ABB Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AMP Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ASUSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Acuminodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allonicdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Pre-Seed
Investors: Pebblebed (lead)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJul 28, 2026
Tau Humanoid at San Francisco
Sources (3)
- Tau Robotics | Humanoid Cleaning Service in San Francisco · https://www.tau-robotics.com/ · 2026-07-28
- Alexander Koch: CEO and Co-Founder of Tau Robotics · https://www.alexkoch.ai/ · 2026-07-28
- Tau Robotics - Crunchbase Company Profile · https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tau-robotics · 2026-07-28
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Tau Robotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Tau Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tau Robotics offers humanoid home cleaning at $30 an hour
Tau Robotics is offering invite only humanoid home cleaning in San Francisco for $30 an hour, with human staff remotely monitoring each job. The post Tau Robotics offers humanoid…
You can hire these humanoid robots to clean your home in San Francisco
Tau Robotics launched an invite-only humanoid home cleaning service in San Francisco at $30/hour, with a remote human operator driving the robot with AI assistance, positioning it…
Startup Offers Human-Supervised Humanoid Robot Cleaning in San Francisco
A San Francisco company called Tau Robotics has begun testing a home cleaning service built around humanoid robots, offering short, flat-rate sessions to a limited group of early…
But why does it have so many antennas? Tau Robotics launches humanoid cleaning service
Reddit discussion of Tau Robotics' humanoid cleaning service launch in San Francisco at $30/hour.
Today, we're launching Tau's humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30 per hour
Tau Robotics launches invite-only humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30/hour, with each humanoid jointly controlled by a human operator and AI.
Koch v1.1 - LeRobot Documentation — low-cost robot arm by Alexander Koch (Tau Robotics)
Documentation for the Koch v1.1 low-cost 6-DOF robotic arm designed by Alexander Koch of Tau Robotics, popularized through Hugging Face's LeRobot framework.
Why Investors Can't Get Enough of AI Robotics Deals Right Now
VCs are betting on robotics AI startups; Tau Robotics mentioned as coming out of stealth with autonomous arm robot for assembly lines.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/tau-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/tau-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6f73f1d3-9857-4871-b19b-c5513fdfaa37
- Revision history: /companies/tau-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
Tau Robotics Is Bulding General AI For Robots. Robotics Setup Only $1400
Looking for a robot with steering capabilities? Check out this LEGO Mindstorms EV3 steering robot. How cool is that? Uses a medium motor to power the front
Heat Index
Serious50/100
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
Tau Robotics draws attention at the 79th percentile but verifies reality at the 37th percentile among humanoids. Hype Gap +41.8, 15th widest among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. 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: Sep 11, 2026