TELEXISTENCE, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tokyo, designs, manufactures, and operates remote-controlled robots equipped with artificial intelligence for retail sector applications. The company's core technology centers on telexistence - enabling human operators to control avatar robots remotely - combined with AI to improve operational efficiency in retail environments. This vertically integrated approach spans the full development cycle from hardware design through manufacturing to deployment and operations.
The company's technical focus addresses the systematic scaling challenges inherent in industrializing robotics technology. Their remote-controlled robots are designed as real-life avatar systems that allow operators to perform tasks at a distance, with AI integration to handle routine operations autonomously. The architecture balances human teleoperation capabilities with machine learning systems, targeting the operational constraints and edge cases typical of retail environments where consistency, uptime, and adaptation to varied product handling are critical requirements.
TELEXISTENCE has raised $20M in Series A2 funding from investors including Global Brain, supporting their approach to scaling robotics deployment. The engineering challenges they address span robotics hardware design, remote operation systems, AI implementation for retail task automation, and the systems integration required to deliver what they characterize as large-scale, stable, and cost-efficient solutions for business operations. Their work represents a pragmatic application of telexistence research principles to commercial retail automation problems.