Thesis

About

Thesis is building Darwin, a humanoid robot for the home. AI is about to leave the screen and enter the physical world. Darwin will learn from real-world experience and continuously improve. First deployments begin in early 2027.

Founders

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  Sergio Charles· Founder/CEO

  Building intelligent humanoid robots. Prev: AI R&D at Google X, NVIDIA, and Stanford AI Lab, working with Chelsea Finn on autonomous RL for robotics and Andrew Ng on computer vision. Stanford B.S. Math & CS, M.S. Stats.

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  Luigi Charles· Founder

  Building Westworld. Previously founded a fintech payments startup, scaling volume from zero to billions. Columbia CS & Math.

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Product launches · 1 launch

• δ Thesis: Building the frontier of AI discovery ↗▲ 232Nov 11, 2025

  Making it possible for researchers anywhere to discover the next Transformer or invent the next AlphaFold.

Change history · 28 recorded

1. October 4, 2026
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2. September 20, 2026
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3. September 6, 2026
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4. September 3, 2026
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5. September 2, 2026
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6. July 25, 2026
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7. July 12, 2026
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8. June 27, 2026
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9. June 10, 2026
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10. June 9, 2026
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11. June 2, 2026
    • Description rewritten07:00 PM
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