Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers

If there is one thing robotics founders and investors agree on, it’s that the “ChatGPT moment” where a general-purpose robot can seamlessly adapt to any environment has not arrived. Opinions vary on whether the breakthrough is just around the corner or a decade away.

Feather Robotics, a humanoid startup founded last year, is developing a robot for either timeline. Unlike Tesla or Figure, which are tackling the lofty mission of building both the body and a foundational ‘brain’ that isn’t…