Overview
US company (Y combinator-backed); converts heavy equipment - dozers, trucks, loaders - into supervised autonomous machines via a retrofit kit, letting a single remote operator run multiple machines from a control center. Private.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Robot
Technology
Stage
Supervised autonomy retrofit
Heavy-equipment industry coverage
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Teleo has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Vinay Shet Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Vinay Shetcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Teleo.
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
Teleo in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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.
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating
Every company Teleo has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- teleo x awswithAWS976technology—operating
- Teleo x Hitachi Construction MachinerywithHitachi Construction Machinerydeployment—operating
- teleo x nvidiawithNVIDIA1112technology—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Teleo.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Teleo from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Blueworm Embodied Launches Mantis Standard Modular Wheeled Humanoid From RMB 9,800
Blueworm Embodied introduced Mantis Standard, a modular wheeled humanoid starting at RMB 9,800, with 22 degrees of freedom, a 7 kg single-arm payload, an omnidirectional 3 m/s…
Unitree G1 Sparring Demo Uses UnifoLM-X2-1.0 World Model Without Teleoperation
Unitree showed its G1 humanoid sparring with a trainer under UnifoLM-X2-1.0, a world-action model that predicts physical states and plans motion in real time without…
China accelerates research into military humanoid robots
A Reuters review found PLA research, tenders and simulations focused on humanoid perception, dexterous work, teleoperation and urban combat. The post China accelerates research…
New humanoid robot system lets machines run, jump and dance with simple commands
Researchers have designed a large-scale framework to control humanoid robots using inputs ranging from teleoperation...
Dyna Robotics introduces DYNA-2 robot model trained on human video
Dyna Robotics has introduced DYNA-2, a robotics foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of egocentric human video, as the company seeks to reduce the amount of…
Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints
Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raises seed round to…
How to avoid the teleoperation trap in robotics development
Teleoperation is necessary for training humanoid robots, but reinforcement learning and simulation are still necessary, says Flexion's CEO. The post How to avoid the teleoperation…
From Demos to Deployments: A Day at AUTONOMOUS 2026
July 16, 2026 - The Midway, San Francisco Deepak Pathak opened his keynote with archival footage: a robot arranging blocks to match an image, a teleoperation rig with a human…
UC San Diego tests teleoperated humanoids in live surgery
UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated humanoid robots in two preclinical surgeries, including a gallbladder removal with human surgeon assistance. The post UC San Diego tests…
Unitree G1 Humanoids Perform Teleoperated Pig Surgery
UC San Diego researchers used two teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoids to complete laparoscopic gallbladder removal on a live pig. The post Unitree G1 Humanoids Perform Teleoperated…
Beyond da Vinci: Why versatile humanoid robots are the next frontier in surgery
For the first time, teleoperated humanoid robots successfully performed surgeries during a UC San Diego preclinical trial. The post Beyond da Vinci: Why versatile humanoid robots…
World’s first surgery using teleoperated humanoid robots conducted by US team
Researchers have achieved a world first by successfully using teleoperated humanoid robots to perform two...
Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/teleo/feed.xml
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- REST API: /v1/companies/d7e614db-fb99-48ac-bc1f-5172176060ea
- Revision history: /companies/teleo/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Video
Watch real-time robot whole-body teleoperation in action. Toborlife AI’s Tobor Harness teleoperation supports whole-body control and dexterous manipulation. Thi
Traditional industrial robotics relies on rigid, deterministic path programming. In this video, we look at how physical AI and imitation learning are shifting t
How can robots learn from human movements? This video demonstrates a teleoperation workflow using OpenArm KER (Kinematic Equivalent Replica), exploring how hum
Heat Index
Serious56/100
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 Teleo 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 2, 2026