Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world
Laplace Intelligence pitches simulation-based AI red-teaming for robots and self-driving cars before real-world deployment.
Ann Arbor startup Laplace Intelligence is building automated red-teaming for robotics and autonomous vehicles, using high-fidelity simulation to find failures before deployment. Founders Howie Sun and Henry Liu spun the company out of University of Michigan research, including a 2023 Nature paper on challenging driving AI in simulation. The product pairs a post-trained NVIDIA Cosmos world model with agents that generate corner cases from sources such as news and police reports. Laplace reports project revenue from Bot Auto, NVIDIA, and a major Japanese automaker, plus early humanoid-robotics work, and is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt to raise funding.