Euporia / Robotics

General-purpose robot intelligence - developed on Earth, deployed in orbit

We build software that lets existing robots learn new physical tasks from human demonstrations, handle real-world variation, and adapt with less specialist programming.

Existing robots. New skills. Less task-specific programming.

How it works

From demonstration to autonomy

01

Demonstrate

A human demonstrates the task through teleoperation, giving the robot grounded examples of what good behaviour looks like.

Robot learning model training pipeline

02

Train

The demonstrations become training data for a vision-language-action policy that connects what the robot sees to the right motion.

03

Deploy

Once trained, the robot repeats the skill autonomously and handles more variation than a rigid scripted workflow.

What we are building

Intelligence that makes robots useful in changing work

01

Teach through demonstration

Give robots new skills through examples instead of specialist programming.

02

Adapt to real-world variation

Help existing robots adjust to new tasks, objects, and changing environments.

03

Automate the learning process

Reduce the human effort required for data collection, training, validation, and deployment.

Why it matters

Automation should adapt when the work changes

Many valuable tasks remain difficult to automate with conventional robot programming. Every new product, object, or workstation adds engineering time and cost, leaving people to perform work that is repetitive, physically demanding, unpleasant, or dangerous.

Learning from demonstrations can make shorter production runs more economical, help manufacturers adapt faster, and extend automation to tasks that are too variable or costly to program conventionally.

Europe faces labour shortages, demographic pressure, and a widening technology gap with the United States and China. Building robotics and physical AI in Europe is essential to technological sovereignty: maintaining industrial capability and economic resilience while ensuring that these technologies reflect European priorities such as well-being, sustainability, and social responsibility.

Factories first / Orbit next

One learning stack. Many robotic bodies.

Industrial deployments on Earth build the software, operational experience, and data needed for more capable robotics. The same learning process can support future inspection, servicing, and assembly in orbit.

Founding team

Built at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and space

Euporia brings together hands-on robot learning, efficient machine learning, and space-systems expertise in Oulu, Finland.

Ingrid Adriell Castrejon, Co-Founder of Euporia

Ingrid “Adriell” Castrejon

Co-Founder

Robotics, teleoperation, and deployment

  • B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
  • M.S. Space Science and Technology
  • Ph.D. researcher in AI-driven robotic manipulation
Miika Malin, Co-Founder of Euporia

Miika Malin

Co-Founder

Machine learning and training systems

  • B.Sc. Statistics
  • M.S. Applied Mathematics
  • Ph.D. researcher in resource- and data-efficient machine learning

Contact

Have a robot task that should be easier to automate?

We would like to hear from industrial partners, robotics and AI collaborators, early-stage investors, and engineers interested in joining the team.