Project 01 — Fallback AI. A 24/7 human pilot pool that any robot can dial into when autonomy fails.
nonzerosum is a small product lab building foundational software for the next generation of autonomous robots. We pick the boring, infrastructural problems — the ones that have to be solved before robots can actually be useful in the real world.
The robotics hardware curve has bent — actuators, sensors, and compute are good enough and cheap enough. The bottleneck is what they run on.
The last 5% of edge cases never gets cleanly solved. Most fleets ship anyway and pay for it with field ops, support, and wasted hardware uptime.
Every fleet rebuilds the same plumbing — failure handling, teleop, training data — from scratch. nonzerosum ships it once, well, as infrastructure.
A robot fleet that actually works lifts everyone in the loop — operators, customers, and the humans on the rescue side of the network. We’re here to expand that sum.