Genesis AI, developers of full-stack robotics hardware and artificial intelligence systems, has introduced Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot designed for manipulation and material-handling tasks across industrial, laboratory, commercial, and other human-centered environments. Eno combines a mobile base, height-adjustable articulated body, dual robotic arms, proprietary dexterous hands, and Genesis AI’s GENE robotics foundation model within an integrated hardware and control platform.

Rather than reproducing a fully humanoid body structure, the design uses a wheeled base for movement between work areas. An articulated central tower can change the robot’s working height and reach, allowing the arm system to access objects, tools, work surfaces, and storage locations positioned at different elevations. The tower can also fold down for more compact storage when the robot is not in use.

Genesis AI Eno wheeled general-purpose robot in a warehouse setting, appearing in an article on Robotics Industry Monthly

Genesis AI’s Eno robot combines a wheeled mobile base, adjustable articulated tower, dual robotic arms, dexterous hands, and the GENE robotics foundation model.

This architecture separates mobility from manipulation. The wheeled base supports movement through structured indoor environments, while the adjustable tower and arm assemblies define the robot’s reachable workspace. At the manipulation interface, Eno incorporates two multi-fingered robotic hands developed by Genesis AI. The hands are designed to interact with tools, controls, containers, fixtures, and other objects developed for human use.

The practical performance of the platform will depend on factors including grasp repeatability, force control, object recognition, collision avoidance, positioning accuracy, and manipulation across objects that vary in geometry, weight, orientation, and surface condition.

“The only path to creating a robot that can truly deliver value to society and excel in the real world is through intentional design and a single, comprehensive system,” said Zhou Xian, Co-Founder and CEO of Genesis AI. “From day one we’ve approached our design and engineering through a production mindset built around bringing our hardware, software and intelligence together as a whole. Eno is an important step forward for what general-purpose robots can help society achieve, and Eno is just the beginning.”

Eno was developed alongside GENE, Genesis AI’s robotics-focused foundation model. The model is intended to support perception, task planning, memory, adaptation, and execution across multi-step physical workflows.

Within the proposed architecture, an operator provides a higher-level objective rather than programming each individual movement. The control system is then intended to interpret the operating environment, divide the objective into individual actions, respond to changing conditions, and coordinate the robot’s mobility and manipulation hardware through task completion.

Potential industrial applications identified by Genesis AI include replenishing production lines, preparing facilities for later shifts, transporting materials, and completing workflows involving multiple manipulation steps. Moving these capabilities into production environments will require validation across repeatability, cycle time, payload, positioning accuracy, safety, uptime, environmental robustness, and recovery from unsuccessful grasps or unexpected conditions.

“When designing Eno, we started with the question of what it needed to be,” said Daniel Hundt, Head of Design at Genesis AI. “We reduced the form to its essential elements so that every detail serves a purpose, from the way it moves between environments, to the precision, range and sensitivity required to operate alongside people in the real world.”

Genesis AI also plans to offer an optional display integrated into the robot. The interface is intended to communicate Eno’s current task, reasoning, and operational state to nearby personnel.

For collaborative deployments, visible state information could help personnel understand whether the robot is processing an instruction, navigating, manipulating an object, waiting, or responding to an interruption. This communication layer would complement, rather than replace, the functional safety systems required for deployment around people.

Genesis AI plans to begin Eno production and targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026. Initial applications are expected to focus on manufacturing, logistics, and laboratory environments, followed by hospitality, healthcare, residential, and outdoor applications.

For industrial robotics users, Eno represents an alternative to both fixed automation and fully humanoid platforms. Its technical relevance will depend on whether the integrated mobility, perception, manipulation, and task-planning system can perform varied workflows with sufficient reliability, throughput, safety, and operating cost for production use.

About Genesis AI

Genesis AI develops artificial intelligence models, robotic manipulation hardware, and integrated general-purpose robot platforms. Its technology portfolio includes the GENE robotics foundation model, proprietary dexterous robotic hands, and Eno, a wheeled mobile-manipulation platform designed for industrial, commercial, laboratory, and consumer environments.

The company is based in Paris, France, and San Carlos, California. Genesis AI has raised $105 million in seed funding from investors including Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt, and Xavier Niel. For more information, please click here. 

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