Democratizing Efficiency.
Building the Physical Internet.

Mission: To significantly expand the scope of what individuals and teams can physically accomplish.

Leveraging recent advancements in multi-modal AI with our unique autonomy design, Guidebolt is a next-gen robot start-up helping small-to-medium sized manufacturers and hardware start-ups gain mass production efficiency without mass production.

Why This Matters

Most manufacturers (small-to-medium) have been underserved by the automation industry for decades under the traditional paradigm of expensive and specialized equipment that requires massive volume to justify the investment. This is an ongoing source of existential risk for passionate business owners who care enough to actively improve their operations, yet struggle with the financial risk of slow-ROI and inflexible automation endeavors. Meanwhile, hardware start-ups commonly struggle with the scaling step from prototype to production- needing efficiency to reduce costs, but lacking the capital for mass production infrastructure. This barrier to tangible efficiency has choked healthy competition to cause rising prices, fragile supply chains, and decreasing innovation across entire sectors.

Yoonseo Kang

Founder & CEO

Former CTO at Payfare ($300M IPO). Semifinalist in ANA Avatar XPRIZE (global robotics). Accomplished Interdisciplinary Engineer with MFG & Industrial Automation Experience. Thiel Fellow. OSHW Pioneer.

James Koppel

Science Advisor

Renowned Advanced Software Design Expert (Mirdin). MIT Software Ph.D. Thiel Fellow. Former Apptimize Engineer (over 1 billion installations).

Tim Barfoot

Robotic Autonomy Advisor

Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Space Robotics. UofT Robotics Ph.D. Former MDA Engineer (Canadarm). Author of State Estimation For Robotics.

Understanding the Future

AI-augmented robots are set to enable radically accessible and complete physical automation workflows across all industries, with irresistably faster ROI than traditional solutions. This is a significant technological leap in one-to-many versatility, echoing the smartphone moment:

One Smartphone, Many Apps. One Robot, Many Tasks.

Comparatively, while smartphone apps are used manually at the user's convenience, robot tasks are performed automatically whenever work is available, unleashing relentless productivity through intelligent independence.

The broad vision is that next-gen robots will become the foundation of the physical internet, fundamentally unifying the digital and material worlds. Personal computing devices will be the intuitive-intelligent interface (intent) to worldwide fleets of AI-augmented robots (action), optionally leveraging datacenters on-demand (massive logic & storage), completing the essential trinity for cyber-physical convergence. This will be an era where thought simply manifests reality — unlocking unprecedented productivity and collaborative prosperity.

One Robot, Boundless Versatility: Your Thought to Reality, Automatically.