Cruise Founder Kyle Vogt Starts VC-Funded Robotics Startup

The Bot Company has raised $150 million in seed funding
Co-founders include former Tesla AI lead and a Cruise engineer

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By David Welch

May 13, 2024 at 10:38 PM UTC

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Kyle Vogt, the founder and former chief executive officer of the self-driving company Cruise LLC, is back in the robot business — but this time the robots are for homes, not roads.

Vogt said on X that he has founded a new venture called the Bot Company with former Tesla Inc. AI tech lead Paril Jain and past Cruise software engineer Luke Holoubek. The Bot Company aims to develop robots that do chores for people.