Fifty years ago, as computing emerged, hackers of Silicon Valley invented the PC, a general-purpose digital platform that everyone could program on. Thanks to them, we now live in a world where a developer in India can be rewarded for enabling an American’s computer on the other side of the world.

Today, we are witnessing the rise of general-purpose physical platforms. And it seems engraved in everyone’s brains that they will be controlled by a few corporations, showing us a uniform world of robots made of white, gray and black, with no face, built to tackle labor shortages, to bring humanity more energy, to take over us.

But while we are on the verge of a technological revolution, we are still in the discovery phase. If we leave it in the hands of a few to decide how it should happen, it will only grow to a fraction of its potential.

To avoid this, everyone should build for themselves and for others. We should want a world that feels more like Star-Wars, with everyone tinkering robots of all-sizes and purposes, and less like I, Robot, with a central authority controlling them all. A world more colorful than metal and gray.

We started Innate to build the Personal AI Robots that will bring this future. Intelligent machines that all can contribute to and augment together. Products that think with you, that are intuitive and alive, to be tailored into what you want. Technologies that celebrate and empower the creativity of the human mind to make useful, helpful and fun things.

Creating a new generation of platform like this one requires to think carefully at the edge of what is possible, what is delightful, and what needs to be reinvented. This is why we are building Innate in the heart of Silicon Valley.

If you feel like you can build anything, and you want to give a try at making a really novel general-purpose device for the benefit of all of humanity, we want to hear from you.