Persona AI, a Texas-based robotics startup building the world’s first heavy-duty humanoid robot, forms a strategic partnership with Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics—an established leader in reality capture and robot automation. Persona AI will present alongside dConstruct Robotics at RoboSG! from March 14-15, 2025.
Persona recently raised an 8-figure pre-seed funding round, secured its first customer and market, and hired a world-class team of roboticists, AI developers, and engineers. Recognizing that Persona AI is poised to become a global leader in robotics, dConstruct offered to host Persona AI at the upcoming RoboSG! showcase where Persona’s CEO Nicolaus Radford will connect his robotics/AI thought leadership to the Singapore tech community.
Notable executives
Persona’s founders have a storied history in humanoid robotics. CEO Nicolaus Radford (and former CEO of Nauticus Robotics) and COO Jide Akinyode were instrumental in the first and only team to put a humanoid on the International Space Station: NASA’s Robonaut 2. Radford also led the team that built NASA’s first bipedal robot, Valkyrie. Persona’s CTO, Jerry Pratt, is a leading name in humanoid robotics and was recently awarded “Most Influential Paper” by the International Conference for Humanoid Robots—a distinction spanning 20 years of humanoid research at the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. Jerry was also the former CTO of Figure AI.
Chinn Lim, CEO of dConstruct Robotics, has 30+ years of experience in software and product implementation, previously leading GovTech’s Smart National Platform Solutions Group. Chong Jiayi, CTO, spent a decade as Pixar’s R&D Technical Director, developing the core Graphics Simulation Stack for award-winning films like WALL-E and Toy Story 3. He has spoken at SIGGRAPH and holds four US patents.
Persona AI and dConstruct strategic partnership
Combined, these organizations are deeply networked into heavy industries across Asia, Europe and the U.S. dConstruct and Persona AI are partnering to pursue the Singaporean automation market, industrial customers and government programs.
Persona AI seeks to capture the Asia-Pacific humanoid market, and is considering Singapore for a future expansion site. Similarly, with Persona’s input, dConstruct seeks to expand into U.S. markets.
Persona AI speaking at RoboSG!
On March 14, 12:00-12:20PM, CEO Nicolaus Radford will give a keynote on the emerging global humanoid industry. On March 14, 1:00-1:30PM, COO Jide Akinyode will speak on a Leveraging Gen AI for Robotics panel. RoboSG! is hosted by the National Robotics Programme (NRP). For more information, visit the NRP’s LinkedIn page.
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Persona AI
Persona AI seeks to create a world where heavy-duty humanoid robots can work side-by-side with humans to tackle complex tasks across society. Persona is reshaping the future of work—one where safety, efficiency and human-machine collaboration augments human potential.
Persona is engaged in a pilot with one of the largest heavy industry companies in the world to deliver a humanoid robot labor service.
This is a robotics company to watch because of their prestigious team and novel go-to-market strategy. Other leading humanoid companies are pursuing low-stress tasks like warehousing; Persona AI, however, is building a heavy-duty humanoid. Persona is addressing a huge market: the Manufacturing Institute estimates that just in the U.S., 3.8 million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled over the next decade.
For more, visit https://persona.ai/.
dConstruct Robotics
dConstruct is an award-winning AI and Robotics deep tech company founded in 2021. Our vision is to make smarter robots for a better world. Our mission is to scan, map and sense-make the world to deliver autonomous robot automation for navigation and human-robot interactions. We provide products and services in reality capture and robot automation. Our robots and supporting solutions are used by customers in academia, transportation, construction, facilities management, logistics, security and defence.
dConstruct is headquartered in Singapore with presence in Toronto, Munich and San Francisco. We are expanding to Tokyo, Seoul and Shenzhen.
For more, visit: https://www.dconstruct.co/