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Almond

AI robots for manufacturing

Almond is building a vision-based AI robot for high-mix pick & place automation. We provide a fully-integrated robot-as-a-service that helps manufacturers save money and increase their revenue.
Active Founders
Saba Khalilnaji
Saba Khalilnaji

Saba Khalilnaji, Founder

ex-DoorDash logistics engineer & ex-CTO Conduit (W23)
Shawn Patel
Shawn Patel

Shawn Patel, Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Almond Prev: - Co-Founder & CTO at Camphor (PearX W24) - Hardware at Google - EECS & Regents at Berkeley Lifelong builder of apps, circuits, and robots rooted in revitalizing American industries.
Almond
Founded:2025
Batch:Spring 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:David Lieb
Company Launches
Almond - AI robots for high-mix pick & place automation.
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Hey there 👋

We’re Saba and Shawn, the founders of Almond. We’re on a mission to accelerate manufacturing automation with AI-powered robots.

TL;DR

We’re launching Almond Bot, a vision-based AI robot for high-mix pick & place automation. We provide a fully-integrated robot-as-a-service that helps manufacturers save money and increase their revenue.

You can hire Almond Bot today for $7/hour.

Check out our launch video below 👇

https://youtu.be/Sul14L5N61U

The Problem

The vast majority of industrial robots automate tasks by moving between pre-programmed positions. This type of automation requires precise hardware, custom fixtures, and bespoke programming which drives up costs - it only makes sense for high volume manufacturing. Meanwhile, the majority of manufacturing is at lower volumes with higher mixed products. Automating these tasks are cost prohibitive yet represent the bulk of manufacturing today. There's so much more we can automate in the world today, but it's just too expensive to implement.

The Solution

Almond Bot is vision-based AI robot for high-mix pick & place automation. We provide a fully-integrated robot-as-a-service that helps manufacturers save money and increase their revenue.

See Almond Bot bin picking assorted sheet metal below 👇

Why now?

Modern diffusion and transformers models make it possible to automate high-mix pick & place tasks today. This moves the complexity away from rigid software & custom fixtures to adaptable AI - lowering the cost for everyone.


Hire Almond Bot today for $7/hour.

The Team

  • Shawn is an ex-Google hardware engineer who previously led electronics on UC Berkeley’s formula team.
  • Saba is an ex-DoorDash and Conduit engineer who learned that labor is the core challenge to solve.

Our Ask

  • If you need to automate a task, try Almond Bot.
  • If you know a factory or warehouse in need of automation, please email us at founders@almondbot.com.