In today’s world where AI and Bots technology are colliding intensely, a cutting-edge project from the United States, OpenMind, is attracting global attention in the tech community. It has not only secured $20 million in top-tier funding from investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Sequoia China in a short period but is also dedicated to addressing the fundamental issues in the Bots industry—enabling different types of Bots to understand each other, share knowledge, and work collaboratively.
With OpenMind announcing the open-source of its world’s first "AI-native" bot system in September 2025, the bot industry is迎来一个可能类似 Android 对手机行业带来的革命性时刻.
Who is OpenMind? A revolutionary vision of a Stanford professor
OpenMind was founded in 2024 by Jan Liphardt, a professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, and its team comprises engineers from Microsoft and seasoned investors.
Founder Jan Liphardt has been deeply engaged in the fields of data, machines, and decision-making for decades, and his research has received support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Energy.
Approaching fifty, he ventured into a Bots startup, aiming to solve a core issue that has plagued the industry for years: the fragmentation of the Bots industry.
Today, each bot is like an "island," mostly adopting a vertically integrated model and relying on closed application programming interfaces, which prevents bots from different vendors from communicating with each other.
Jan Liphardt believes that "without collaboration, bots have no intelligence, only mechanical movement." This is exactly the situation that OpenMind hopes to change.
Two core products: OM1 and FABRIC
OpenMind’s core competitiveness comes from its two carefully designed products: the OM1 operating system and the FABRIC Decentralization network, which together form the "brain" and "nervous system" of the Bots.
OM1: General Bots Brain
OM1 is an AI-native operating system created by OpenMind, designed specifically for humanoid Bots, but it can run on any robotic hardware.
Unlike traditional Bots stacks, OM1 is designed from the ground up to achieve intelligent adaptive behavior. It integrates perception, foundational models, memory, and context, enabling the Bots to observe and interpret the environment, understand natural language, and adjust actions in real-time.
The uniqueness of OM1 lies in its hardware neutrality, which allows for abstraction of hardware differences, enabling devices of different forms to possess advanced intelligence.
Currently, OM1 has achieved the dual deployment of AI intelligences in the digital and physical worlds. Users only need to create an AI persona to run simultaneously on the cloud and physical robot hardware.
FABRIC: Decentralized Collaborative Network of Bots
FABRIC is the second product of OpenMind, a decentralized network that provides bots with trusted location, identity, and collaboration capabilities.
FABRIC addresses the core issues of how machines establish identity, how they determine their own location, and how they share knowledge with other robots they have never encountered.
You can think of it as the GPS, VPN, and handshake protocol for machines. As more and more Bots are deployed into daily life, FABRIC provides the necessary trust layer for them to work together.
Technical Highlights and Market Progress
OpenMind’s technological innovations are not only reflected in its concepts but have also transformed into concrete market progress and open-source achievements.
Open Source Strategy and Hardware Compatibility
In September 2025, OpenMind open-sourced the world’s first "AI-native" open-source robot system. This system features "hardware neutrality," adapting to various robotic forms such as quadrupeds and bipedals, and can be rapidly deployed through Docker images, compatible with AMD64 and ARM64 architectures.
The system supports access to various mainstream AI models and has natively adapted to some robot products such as Yushu and UBTECH. This greatly facilitates developers in development and debugging, lowering the entry threshold for robot technology.
Market Heat and Partners
The market popularity of OpenMind cannot be underestimated. According to official sources, its FABRIC network’s waiting list has exceeded 150,000 registrations within 3 days. In addition, OpenMind has also collaborated with well-known technology organizations such as the Oxford Robotics Institute and Databricks.
and established partnerships with robot manufacturers such as Unitree and kscale, integrating both robot R&D and Web3 Practical experience.
The company is preparing to deliver the first batch of 10 robotic dogs powered by its software by September 2025, marking the transition of its technology from proof of concept to actual delivery.
OpenMind and Gate Exchange
For readers interested in cryptocurrency, you may be concerned about OpenMind’s performance in the trading market. It should be noted that, according to the official page of Gate, OpenMind (OMND) is currently not listed for trading and services on Gate.
Gate, as a versatile exchange supporting over 3600 cryptocurrencies, is constantly evaluating and introducing promising new projects. Users interested in OpenMind can follow its subsequent developments through Gate’s official channels to receive any potential listing information in a timely manner.
Future Outlook: Disruptive Changes in Bot Technology
The vision of OpenMind goes far beyond the intelligence of a single robot. It is committed to transforming intelligent machines from isolated individuals into a collaborative network, enabling factory, logistics, and home service Bots to continuously enhance their intelligence.
Through blockchain-driven Decentralization collective intelligence, OpenMind aims to significantly enhance Bots collaboration efficiency and productivity.
Imagine a delivery bot sensing that an autonomous vehicle has delivered food. Through FABRIC, it can verify the vehicle’s identity and confirm its location, and retrieve the package through real-time coordination, all without any human intervention.
This scenario is exactly the goal that OpenMind strives to achieve.
From a broader perspective, the work that OpenMind is doing in the Bots field is akin to what Linux and Ethereum have done in the software field. If we say that AI technology is the "brain" and robotic technology is the "body", then the collaborative system built by OpenMind is the "nervous system" that connects everything.
Conclusion
The emergence of OpenMind marks a critical turning point in the development of Bots technology. From isolated hardware devices to interconnected intelligent collectives, the future of Bots technology will be more open, collaborative, and efficient.
For technology observers, investors, and developers, OpenMind not only represents a promising technological project but also serves as an important window to observe the integration and development of Bots technology with blockchain and AI.
With the advancement of its open-source strategy and the delivery of the first batch of Bots, robotics technology may be迎来 its "Android moment," and OpenMind is expected to play a key role in this transformation.
