Kubo is designing the next generation of human-machine interaction.
Human intent lives in more than just language. Intent also exists in where we look, how we move, what we reach for, and how we respond to the world. We’re building wearable systems that capture these implicit intent signals through continuous physiological sensing, so AI systems can understand what a person is doing, what they’re about to do, and how they want to interact with the world.
We’re currently focusing on robotics in two ways. First, providing richer in-context prompts through our hardware to help address deployment failures. Second, enriching demonstration data with intent signals such as gaze, pupil dilation and prehension for robot pre-training.
Desmo Hardware
Wearable hardware for egocentric video, gaze, inertial data, audio and peripheral physiology.
Research
Our work spans physiological computing, mechanistic interpretability, and embodied AI alignment.
Project Aura
Our imagination of an affective intelligence layer that understands your intention before you express it.
Team
Sumukh Bettadapura
CEO
Built and scaled a full stack development company, deploying projects across UI/UX design, IoT, web and ML. Built a Text-UI platform based on Web GL, and also worked on adaptive UI systems using RL and emotion detection.
IITM BSc AI Drop out and business + law grad from NLU, Patna.
Ajan Subramanian
Chief Scientist
PhD in ML for health at UC Irvine. Worked extensively on building models on physiological sensors. Published over 10 papers in top journals including Nature. Has over 180 citations.
Rohan Sathish
Founding Researcher
Electronics and Communication Engineer from BMSCE. Bridging the gap between hardware architecture and UX. Previously scaled design teams at Weave and pioneered rapid prototyping at CommerceIQ to reduce R&D cycles.
Vikrant Gupta
Founding Engineer
Technology leader with 9+ years of experience delivering embedded and Edge AI systems. Strong focus on ultra-low-power design, edge ML deployment, and production-ready execution.
Pranav Vivekananda
Member of Technical Staff (AI/ML Researcher)
BSc Mathematics student who studied Economics and Statistics at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. Previously a Junior Actuarial Analyst at Accenture.
Sibi Venkatesan
ML/AI Mentor
PhD from The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, in the AutonLab with Artur Dubrawski. Undergraduate from UC Berkeley, working on robotics with Pieter Abbeel in the Robot Learning Lab.