
Arnav Bhalla
Co-founder & CEO
Arnav studied bioengineering at Rice University. His background includes work at Motif Neurotech and research with Rice’s Brain Computer Interface Lab.
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About Coop
Coop is building the benchmarks and physical evaluation work that help robot model developers understand what their models can reliably do.
Our approach starts with industry workflows, with warehouses as the initial focus. We talk with the people who understand the work, identify a bounded task, and turn it into a repeatable physical evaluation with explicit success criteria.
We work with humanoid and manipulation model developers: comparing policies, testing robustness, and following performance across successive releases. That evidence can inform technical conversations with robot manufacturers, with the tested embodiment and its limitations kept in view.
We want a result to be useful because someone can inspect how it was produced. Protocols, trial accounting, failures, interventions, and uncertainty all belong beside the score.
Our first public benchmark is in development. We intend to make its methods, results, and supporting evidence open and verifiable. Until those results are ready, this site shares our approach and practical resources for designing evaluations.
Read the methodologyWe’re running benchmarks across robot embodiments and working with researchers at Penn, Illinois, MIT, the University of Michigan, UT Austin, and Georgia Tech. Our focus is the methods and physical execution needed to make model evaluations repeatable.
Coop is based in San Francisco, backed by a16z Speedrun, and a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program.
Model developers can explore our evaluation scopes. Researchers can use the protocol and trial-record templates. If you run an industry workflow, we welcome conversations about the tasks and operating conditions a useful benchmark should represent.
The founders
Arnav, Adithiya, and Rohith met in middle school and have been building together ever since. After their first year at Rice, Georgia Tech, and Penn, they left their programs to build Coop.

Co-founder & CEO
Arnav studied bioengineering at Rice University. His background includes work at Motif Neurotech and research with Rice’s Brain Computer Interface Lab.
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Co-founder & COO
Adithiya studied computer engineering and AI at Georgia Tech. His background includes defense work and machine-learning research.
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Co-founder & CTO
Rohith studied AI and business in Penn’s Management & Technology program. His background includes work at Blue Origin and research at MIT on visual defect detection.
Research backgroundFor evaluation questions, research conversations, or corrections to our published material, reach the team at founders@cooplabs.com.