Covariant

Covariant is a US AI robotics company founded in 2017 that develops the Covariant Brain, a universal foundation model for robot perception and manipulation, and its flagship RFM-1 multimodal transformer trained on robot actions, sensor readings, images, and text. Its technology is deployed in goods-to-person picking, kitting, and sortation at major logistics and retail customers including GXO.

First mentioned: March 2026