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Why open infrastructure is critical

Robotics can grow around shared standards or repeat the concentration of software AI.

Software AI concentrated around closed models and private data. Robotics is taking the same route as well-funded companies build proprietary fleets, data loops and models that outsiders cannot inspect or reuse.

Context / Market structureSoftware AI has exhibited power concentration; THOR aims to bring together common standards for robotics
Software AI

Proprietary platforms

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google

Data + models + compute

A few platforms control the full stack

Physical AI

THOR creates open robotics infrastructure

Global research community
  • Labs
  • Universities
  • Builders
  • Investors

THOR open source coordination

  • Data
  • Hardware
  • Models

THOR coordinates the open physical AI stack

THOR is built around common standards that let labs, manufacturers, researchers and operators contribute to the same market without handing control of the stack to one platform. Customer data can remain private while task rules and acceptance tests stay clear.