Join & partner

There is a door here for you.

We've started to build something large with a small team, and we can't build it alone. Whether you want to work here, learn this craft, or build alongside us — this is the page to open the conversation. One email opens every door.

Email [email protected]
Who we're looking for

Now and later.

Tell us who you are and what you'd bring. We read every note.

work

People who want to build

Engineers, designers, technicians, field operators, and makers in AI, Physical AI, and robotics — and the people who keep real machines running in hard places.

learn

People who want to learn

New to AI and robotics, or growing into it. We're building career paths from first exposure to certified technician, in plain and local languages, on real equipment.

partner

Startups — new, old, or paused

Small companies, and teams whose projects stalled or failed. Good work deserves a second life; bring it to The Open Lab.

make

Manufacturers & production partners

Factories and production lines that can build our designs at volume, near where they're needed, with locally sourceable parts.

infra

Tech & infrastructure companies

Partners in compute, connectivity, sensing, and the infrastructure that real deployments run on.

research

Scientists, professors & researchers

University researchers and experts across AI, physical intelligence, and robotics — for the work we need now, and the bets we're taking for later.

What working together looks like

Six ways in, one way to start.

01

Build with us

If you are an engineer, designer, technician, field operator, or maker in AI, physical intelligence, or robotics — or the kind of person who keeps real machines running in hard places — we want to hear what you have built and what you want to build next. We are small enough that your work will matter, and ambitious enough that it will be hard.

02

Learn the craft

You do not need to arrive an expert. We are building structured paths from first exposure to certified technician, in plain and local languages, on real equipment, in partnership with local institutions — because the regions where we deploy should grow their own experts, not import ours forever.

03

Bring a paused project

Some of the best ideas in this field are sitting in projects that stalled for reasons that had nothing to do with the idea — timing, runway, a market that was not ready. The Open Lab offers a working bench, honest staging, and sometimes funding or shared-lab space. Good work deserves a second life.

04

Build our machines

If you run a factory or a production line that can build to spec at volume, near where the machines are needed, with locally sourceable parts, you are exactly the kind of partner the Making arm is built around. We hold the designs and the playbooks; you hold the factory.

05

Power the deployments

Compute, connectivity, sensing, energy — real deployments run on infrastructure, and we would rather partner with those who do it well than reinvent it. If your infrastructure could carry the intelligence layer into hard places, let's talk.

06

Research alongside us

University researchers, professors, and experts across all three arms — for the work we need now and the bets we are taking for later. The Open Lab is a genuine door for serious researchers, not a marketing gesture.

How we begin

Small, honest, and paid.

We do not ask anyone to believe a roadmap. We start small — a job trial, a paid pilot, a single project — with what success looks like agreed in plain terms before the work begins. In our two industries, trust is earned on the night shift and in the field, not in the boardroom, and we would rather prove ourselves on something real than pitch you something grand.

And there are no forms. One email in your own words is enough to start — who you are, what you care about, and how you would like to work together. We read every note, and the people who wrote this site are the people who will write back.

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See what you'd join

One email, every door

Write to us in your own words.

No forms. Tell us who you are, what you care about, and how you'd like to work together — a job, a partnership, a paused project, a factory, a lab. That's enough to start.