The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies XDOF: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $70.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
Overview
Physical AI data infrastructure startup building teleoperation systems, data pipelines, and annotation tools for robot training data. Founded October 2024 by Philipp Wu (CEO, former UC Berkeley PhD), Fred Shentu (CTO), and Nemo Jin (COO). The company emerged from stealth in June 2026 with $70M in funding from Thrive capital, Spark Capital, a16z, Lux, and WndrCo.
Has ~60 employees and 20 customers including several frontier AI labs. Plans to build its own wearable sensors for human task data collection.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company XDOF has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1UC Berkeley AI Research Lab1× joint
Most recent
- XDOF x UC Berkeley AI Research Lab2026-06-17with UC Berkeley AI Research Laboperating
XDOF on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where XDOF's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Philipp Wu CEO & Co-founder, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Fred Shentu CTO & Co-founder, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Nemo Jin COO & Co-founder, Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Nemo Jincofounderno longer at company
- Fred Shentucofounderno longer at company
- Philipp Wucofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for XDOF.
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)
- XDOF2 deployments
Recent coverage
XDOF in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every XDOF competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- Ropediadirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (3)
Registry pages whose text names XDOF.
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $70.0M
- Employees
- 50
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
1 total · 1 operating
Every company XDOF has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- XDOF x UC Berkeley AI Research Lab2026-06-17with UC Berkeley AI Research Laboperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1UC Berkeley AI Research Lab1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- XDOF x UC Berkeley AI Research LabwithUC Berkeley AI Research Labdevelopment2026-06-17operating
Funding rounds (1)
- Strategic2026-06-17
$70M(reported)
Investors: Thrive Capital (lead), Spark Capital (follow), Lux Capital (follow), WndrCo (follow), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in XDOF’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundStrategic funding round
2026-06-17Strategic raising $70000000
PartnershipXDOF x UC Berkeley AI Research Lab
2026-06-17XDOF partnered with UC Berkeley's AI Research lab to release ABC-130K, the largest open-source bimanual robot manipulation dataset, including 130,000 trajectories, 300 hours of simulation, and 100 hours of evaluations
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 1, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
XDOF Teleoperation Platform at United States
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
XDOF Teleoperation Platform at Germany, Europe
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for XDOF.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning XDOF from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
XDOF emerges from stealth with USD 70M from Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, a16z, Lux, and WndrCo to build teleoperation data infrastructure for robotics training
Robotic teleoperation data startup XDOF launches with 70M in funding
SiliconANGLE coverage of XDOF stealth launch with USD 70M round led by Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, a16z, Lux Capital, and WndrCo, and release of ABC-130K open-source robot…
Announcing XDOF
XDOF announces its launch as a robotics infrastructure company, partnering with leading robotics labs to deliver production-scale datasets and advanced robotic systems for…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/xdof.md
- RSS feed: /companies/xdof/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/4692484d-ca9d-4ae6-8631-93485afc7c08
- Revision history: /companies/xdof/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
XDOF's 130K Robot Episodes Reveal the Real Bottleneck in Robot AI Media credits: - Bot - 0:15-0:22, dataset grid 4to3 image - teaser - 0:00-0:09, teaser; 0:35-
Discover how XDOF is revolutionizing the way robots learn by tackling the messy job of data collection. Partnering with UC Berkeley, they aim to release the lar
Everyone is talking about humanoid robots. Nobody is talking about how they actually learn. ChatGPT trained on the entire internet — trillions of words, scrape
AI News Flash for June 17, 2026 at 16:00 UTC. Topics: 1. XDOF robot training data https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-
XDOF is leading the way in AI robot training. Their collected data is changing the game. #Shorts
AI News Today: Live Dashboard Key points: • Breaking AI news from the last 48 hours. • vs average of last 4 issues — click to explore. • XDOF Emerges From Stea
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
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
XDOF draws attention at the 61st percentile but verifies reality at the 37th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +23.8, 87th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Active fundraising activity with a recent closing. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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 29, 2026