Trener Robotics

By David Lee | May 5, 2026

Trener trains AI skills for robots, delivered with integrated tooling for deployment, training, and system integration.. These robot skill models are fully deployed at the edge, and give robots unprecedented inference and intelligence capabilities to perform industrial tasks with machine-like precision and human-level problem-solving.

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Asad Tirmizi

Asad Tirmizi is the founder and CEO of Trener. The company creates Physical AI skills for robots. Before founding the company, he was a Research Scientist at ByteDance Inc., and Vicarious Inc. (acquired by Google). He has an award-winning Ph.D. in Robot Learning. His subsequent research in robotics led to his selection by the EU as one of 15 Next Generation Innovators. He lives in the Bay Area, California, with his wife and son.