TELEXISTENCE Inc.

TELEXISTENCE Inc. (TX) is a robotics and physical AI company founded in 2017. It designs, manufactures, and operates robots intended to work in real-world environments beyond the factory floor. The company’s work draws on the concept of “telexistence,” proposed in 1980 by University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus Susumu Tachi: enabling people to act in a remote environment through robotic and communications systems. TX describes its mission as accelerating the practical expansion of robotics and making robotic capabilities relevant at scale.

TX develops integrated systems that combine robot hardware, artificial intelligence, remote operation, and operational services. Its technology includes connectivity over wired networks, Wi-Fi and cellular networks; low-latency data streaming; and hybrid control that combines human teleoperation with AI. The company says it develops hardware, software, AI, and teleoperation technologies in-house, and its current public materials describe work on robot foundation models and other physical-AI systems.

Retail robotics has been a significant area of deployment. TX introduced Model-T, a remote-controlled retail robot, in 2020; that model has since been discontinued. The company later announced TX SCARA, an AI robot designed for retail beverage replenishment, and began installing it in FamilyMart stores in Japan in 2022. More recent company announcements describe TX GHOST as a beverage-restocking robot operating in convenience-store environments, including pilot operations at select Seven-Eleven Japan locations.

TX also works on logistics automation. In partnership with SENKO, it began phased operation of robotic solutions at a logistics facility in Fukuoka in 2024. The system was described as coordinating robotic arms and automated forklifts for pallet-to-conveyor loading and pallet-to-cart stacking, with remote monitoring and control to support recovery from errors. The company’s stated focus on real-world operations provides a basis for developing and testing robotic systems in commercial settings.

Alongside robot products and operations, TX has announced a robotic motion-dataset generation service for robotics companies and research institutions. The company says its Motion Data Factory generates motion datasets using multi-joint robots, with optional data cleansing and curation. Its public materials describe customers and collaborators in retail, logistics, manufacturing, robotics research, and AI development; specific service availability and deployment plans may vary by initiative.

The company is headquartered in Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Its official history dates its founding to 2017, and its company materials identify the initial purpose as designing, manufacturing, and operating robots where they can advance the state of the art. The company’s development history is connected to the broader telexistence concept, while its present work emphasizes practical deployment and integration of robotics and AI in commercial environments.

TELEXISTENCE describes its workforce as a multinational team of specialized professionals and says it continues to develop its core technologies in-house. Its careers materials emphasize high aspirations, technological excellence, and a results-oriented environment, with employee accounts citing flexibility, responsibility, and opportunities to contribute to deployed systems. These statements reflect the company’s published recruiting materials rather than a guarantee of any particular role’s conditions.