Cell Labs is a Berlin-based company building humanoid robots and the underlying technology stack required to operate them. The company's stated technical objective is to make physical work optional by developing robots capable of performing repetitive, physically demanding tasks in real-world environments. The team remains small and operates with a rapid development cycle, iterating designs based on direct feedback from the environments where their systems are intended to deploy.
The technical approach centers on human-centered systems designed for intuitive interaction and adaptation to human needs. Rather than pursuing automation as an incremental add-on to existing workflows, Cell Labs is engineering robots to genuinely understand and respond to operational requirements in everyday contexts. Development methodology emphasizes real-world validation: designs are tested and refined in actual work environments rather than controlled laboratory settings, addressing the practical constraints and edge cases that emerge during deployment.
The founding team draws primarily from backgrounds with direct exposure to repetitive manual labor, informing both the problem definition and solution architecture. This perspective shapes the company's engineering priorities around high-tech design that feels natural to work alongside, rather than systems that require extensive operator training or workflow restructuring. The focus spans both hardware and software domains necessary for autonomous humanoid operation in unstructured environments.