Kubo is designing the next generation of human-machine interaction. We founded the company with the objective of making machines understand you better.
There's an information explosion, and while computers are amazing at allowing us to do more, they don't really factor in how we're feeling. With so much information, it gets overwhelming. We want to design computers that understand how you feel, and help you stay present. Computers that are sensitive to you.
Current AI systems learn what humans want from what humans say. This is a lossy proxy. Language compresses intent, filters emotion, and discards the vast majority of cognitive context that shapes a decision.
That's why we're building the infrastructure to align AI with continuous physiological data, captured through wearable AR interfaces. These signals provide a direct window into human experience that text-based preference learning cannot reach.
Research
Our work spans physiological computing, mechanistic interpretability, and embodied AI alignment.
Team
Sumukh Bettadapura
CEO
Built and scaled a UI/UX design company to $100k in ARR by Year 2. IITM BSc AI Drop out and Law Grad from NLU, Patna.
Ajan Subramanian
Chief Scientist
PhD in ML for health at UC Irvine. Worked extensively on building models on physiological sensors. Published over 10 papers in top journals including Nature. Has over 180 citations.
Rohan Sathish
Founding Researcher
Electronics and Communication Engineer from BMSCE. Bridging the gap between hardware architecture and UX. Previously scaled design teams at Weave and pioneered rapid prototyping at CommerceIQ to reduce R&D cycles.
Vikrant Gupta
Hardware Consultant
Technology leader with 9+ years of experience delivering embedded and Edge AI systems. Strong focus on ultra-low-power design, edge ML deployment, and production-ready execution.
Sibi Venkatesan
ML/AI Mentor
PhD from The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, in the AutonLab with Artur Dubrawski. Undergraduate from UC Berkeley, working on robotics with Pieter Abbeel in the Robot Learning Lab.