Telexistence Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Jin Tomioka) today announced the launch of a groundbreaking service that will generate large-scale, stable, and cost-efficient robotic motion datasets tailored to customer requirements. The service will officially begin in January 2026, with pre-orders opening in September 2025.

At the core of this initiative is Telexistence’s newly established “Motion Data Factory.” This facility represents a new type of industrial infrastructure for the robotics industry. Much like electricity or telecommunications, it will function as a critical utility—delivering a stable and abundant supply of motion data that is essential for advancing robot intelligence, thereby accelerating the growth of robotics companies and research institutions worldwide.

Watch the PR video here: https://youtu.be/5Q8rIQ6HA4M

■Service Overview

– Target Customers: Robotics startups, global robot manufacturers, universities, and research institutions in Japan, the U.S., and Europe
– Core Services: Motion dataset generation using multi-joint robots / Optional data cleansing and curation
– Pricing Model: Based on dataset duration (hours) × task complexity

■About Telexistence

Telexistence Inc. is on a mission to change robotics, change structures, and change the world. The company develops remote-controlled and AI-driven robots, and operates services using its proprietary platforms. With world-class talent spanning hardware, software, AI, and teleoperation, Telexistence designs and builds everything in-house. By expanding the role of robots beyond factories and into society at large, the company aims to fundamentally redefine how labor is structured and delivered.

Contact Information:
Telexistence Inc.

Motion Data Factory inquiries: datafactory@tx-inc.com
General inquiries: info@tx-inc.com
Careers & recruiting inquiries: careers@tx-inc.com

Telexistence Inc. (“TX”) and Physical Intelligence (“PI”) announced a partnership to develop robotic foundation models, aiming to automate tasks of drink-restocking operations in convenience stores. 

To date, TX’s AI robot “TX GHOST” has been running in convenience stores to automate the majority of drink-restocking tasks. Here, teleoperation by remote operators was also combined, due to some error cases being unpredictable and having numerous patterns of its recovery process. For example, recovering rolled over beverages inside display shelves is one of the error cases that was challenging to automate with off-the-shelf technology.

By combining TX’s large amount of unique “embodied” teleoperation data and know-how with PI’s state-of-the-art general-purpose robotics foundation models, this partnership intends to shift these manual teleoperation tasks to fully autonomous operations.

Partnership scope:

Telexistence (TX) will provide robots running in retail stores along with its teleoperation data, and work on combining PI’s vision language action (VLA) models using TX’s proprietary robotics technology.

Physical Intelligence (PI) will develop policies that address the challenges of recovering from error cases by training PI’s VLA models on data generated during real production.

Going further, by establishing and running a training loop of injecting new operation data, training, and re-deploying VLA models, TX and PI aim at creating a platform where robots with human-like “physical intelligence” can react and autonomously perform physical labor at various industries.

Our partnership is already underway, and we will share further details as the work progresses.

About Physical Intelligence ( https://www.physicalintelligence.company/ )

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.

Address: 396 Treat Avenue, San Francisco
Representative: Karol Hausman, Co-Founder & CEO
Founded: February 21, 2024

As part of Telexistence’s effort to find the best talent from anywhere on the planet, we work with Master’s and PhD interns throughout the year. Sophia connected with us via the MIT-Japan Program and decided to relocate to Japan for six months to work together.

Background: MIT Master’s of Engineering Degree in Mechanical Engineering, MIT Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Professional Interest and Experience in Product Design and Development.

Internship Period: August 2023 – February 2024

Team: Hardware Engineering, Retail Robotics

What did you pursue in your Master’s research, and how does it fit with what we do at TX?
I finished my Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, under the Advanced Manufacturing and Design program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Under this program, I undertook coursework in product design, mechanical design and supply chain/operations management. For my thesis work, I collaborated with Texas Instruments, a semiconductor manufacturer, to develop tools – including machine learning models, hardware, and software – to improve semiconductor yield through better wafer defect detection.

I think a lot of the skills I’ve learned through my Master’s program and thesis project relate directly to projects I have been assigned at TX. On the design side, I’ve been tasked with mechanism design, test bench design, and conducting material characterization studies. Working at TX has allowed me to extend my abilities in designing for real world manufacturing standards and has helped me become even more familiar with the CAD software needed to achieve this.

Unexpectedly, I’ve also happened across a project where I get to utilize my manufacturing supply chain/inventory management knowledge through developing models for store operation. I think the skills I’ve learned and practiced at TX will most definitely relate to my future career as an engineer.

What is your biggest achievement or learning through this internship so far?
Of course, this internship has allowed me to refine my technical skills in mechanical engineering and design. But one of the biggest skill growth I’ve noticed in myself is cross-functional collaboration and cross-cultural communication. Being able to interact with Japanese vendors and experts has allowed me to develop my communication skills in Japanese, specifically the vocabulary/language needed for mechanical engineering/design engineers. In addition, on a broader note, this experience has taught me how to generally conduct business in Japan, which I think will be helpful in the future. I hope to work in the product design and manufacturing realm, and of course manufacturing technologies will continue to involve Japanese companies, so having this skill set will be an advantage in future collaborations.

What are the three words that best describe the TX team or culture?

Flexible: The company culture is incredibly flexible. There are no hard requirements regarding time to report to the office, or remote/hybrid/in-person, as long as the work is done and goals are achieved. This allows many of the employees to work at a time that is best for their lifestyle. In addition, the start-up phase of the company means the directives by project can vary quite a lot from week to week, sometimes the vision for a project can pivot; the team is really good at adjusting the workflow and being flexible to match the direction of the vision.

Goal-Oriented: This type of mindset reduces time wasted – the priority is that objectives are achieved and the milestones are met, so employees are free to work in the method that works best for them. This means there can be a reduction in time spent doing unnecessary tasks and red-tape/bureaucracy.

Diverse: The company is made up of many employees from different nationalities and backgrounds. It works well since it offers a well rounded team with many different problem-solving methods, and it is interesting to get to know each others’ previous experiences and learn from others.

Would you recommend TX as a place to have an internship and why?
Absolutely. It is rare to come across such a flexible and encouraging work environment, and as an intern, this means that you can pick and choose projects/tasks that best align with your goals and professional interests. Since the team is small, many of the tasks we work on have a direct impact on the actual deployed robot. The team is incredibly helpful and willing to share their expertise, so I never feel like I am asking too many questions, meaning I’m learning new things everyday.

As part of Telexistence’s effort to find the best talent from anywhere on the planet, we work with Master’s and PhD interns throughout the year. Shreyas reached out to us in June 2022 showing his strong interest in the opportunity to work together. It took us only a couple of weeks to agree that it would be a great fit and to sign the internship agreement.

Background: Pursuing Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Engineering of Hokkaido University.

Internship Period: August – September 2022 (2 months)

Team: Mechatronics

What do you pursue in your Master’s, and how does it fit with what we do at TX?

I am a Master’s Student at the Graduate School of Engineering of Hokkaido University. I am working at the Smart Structures and Systems Laboratory in the Division of Human Mechanical System Designs and my research is focused on developing Compliant Grippers for robotics using SMA actuators. While developing the experimental system for my research I have come to realize that I have a large
knowledge gap specifically related to the low-level software development of robotics systems. For example, the SMA (Shape Memory Alloys) Actuators are really difficult to work with because right now there are not many reliable control methods for the systems, and in most cases, we have to develop our own low-level codes for it to work. I explained my situation to my manager during my interview and he explained that it would be a great opportunity for me to work on similar problem at TX. Converting this problem into a mutually beneficial opportunity I have been working with the Mechatronics Development Team at TX to develop low level codes that would eventually make the inter-modular communication much easier inside the robot. Since coming to TX, I have noticed an exponential growth in my knowledge of low-level software development, and that is most definitely going to help me a lot with my research.

What is your biggest achievement or learning through this internship so far? What challenges have you faced while working at TX and how did you overcome them?

I have yet to figure out my biggest achievement at TX as I am constantly working on better things every day and it gives me a sense of accomplishment every time! However, I do know that my biggest learning is not something Technical rather a soft skill. I have some work experience prior to shifting to higher studies and during that time I was under the impression that the idea of leadership and teamwork was directly related to one’s intrinsic ability to put up a façade while communicating with people. After coming to TX, I have realized that teamwork and leadership, in fact, need real personalities and that in turn makes communication much easier. I have learnt a lot from my team here at TX and I intend to use these learning all my life!
Coming to the challenges I have faced. I understand that I have a huge knowledge gap on the software side of robotics. While giving the interview I had communicated that to my manager with a lot of emphasis. As a result, he asked me to start working on low-level codes for the TX robot. This was definitely challenging to me. However, the way it turns out I started bombarding my colleagues with a million questions. One might expect the people to get tired of answering so many questions, instead I received a million answers in return. That built a very open and inclusive
environment which allowed me to try out different things with all the freedom without worrying about making a mistake. It never felt like I was working “for” someone, rather it was like we were all trying to come up with a solution together. That, in my honest opinion, is the definition of a healthy work
environment. And that is a basic requirement to overcome any challenges.

What are the three words that best describe TX team or culture?

Progressive:
I have been following TX’s progress over the years and it never fails to impress me. I was really awestruck by the videos they upload on YouTube. You could almost take me for a die-hard fan! I always wondered is it just for show or the company actually has a progressive mind set when it comes to
Research and Development in Robotics. Having worked in other robotics Start-ups I have built a keen and sceptic understanding. But when I actually saw the CTO, the CEO, Head of Mechatronics Engineering and all the other employees I realized that it was truly, in every sense of the word, Progressive.
Inclusive:
As I explained before the people at TX are really open to questions and always ready for a conversation be it work or play. That makes for a really inclusive environment.
Incredible:
Well, this could be a biased opinion but I think TX is an incredible company that is working on state-of-the-art technology for a very difficult problem statement.

Would you recommend TX as a place to have an internship and why?

I would wholeheartedly recommend TX as a place for internship. The people here are very encouraging and never back down when you bombard them with questions, which is one of my bad habits. They make you feel involved and you get real hands-on experience which is really rare these days. I think for people who believe in taking the initiative and working on challenging problems TX is a very good place to start. This company can provide hands on experience over a wide range of technologies that are sometimes hidden away in research papers. It is really interesting to see the constant iterations of prototyping and product development cycle produce great Robots. Join TX and have fun while gaining tons of experience!