San Francisco physical AI company (founded 2024) building OM1, a hardware-agnostic robot operating system, and FABRIC, an open-source fleet knowledge-sharing protocol.
OpenMind is a physical AI company based in San Francisco, founded in 2024 by Stanford professor Jan Liphardt. It develops the software stack - the company describes it as the "brain and infrastructure" - for robots intended to work alongside people, targeting deployments in manufacturing, logistics, and retail. The company raised $20 million in seed funding from investors including Pantera Capital and Sequoia, and is shipping its first fleet of OM1-powered robotic dogs.
The core product is OM1, a hardware-agnostic operating system positioned as the central intelligence layer across robot form factors, from quadrupeds to full-size humanoids. The design point is decoupling the autonomy and interaction stack from any single hardware platform, so the same software layer can run across heterogeneous robots rather than being rebuilt per embodiment. A second component, FABRIC, is an open-source protocol for sharing learned knowledge across a fleet: behavior or skills acquired by one robot can propagate to the rest of the system instead of being re-learned on each unit.
OpenMind's stated technical focus areas include physical AI, robot operating systems, fleet learning, and social intelligence for robots - the perception and interaction capabilities needed for machines to collaborate with humans rather than operate in isolated cells. Engineering work spans the hardware/software boundary across platforms, with the constraint of portability across quadrupeds, humanoids, and other morphologies. The company maintains an open-source component to its stack through FABRIC.
