Adarsh Kulkarni is Founder and CEO at Foundry Robotics, an AI-driven robotics company building the Everything Factory to revolutionize American manufacturing with assembly automation for commercial and defense applications.

Adarsh was an early employee at Ghost Robotics (acquired for $400M), where he served as a core autonomy engineer deploying robots for DoD and industrial applications. He then joined Scale AI as a software engineer and rose to Head of Robotics.

Adarsh graduated with degrees in robotics from University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab. He has deep expertise in Vision-Language-Action foundation models and robotic assembly systems.

Foundry Robotics raised $13.5M in Seed funding in January 2026 led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Red Glass Ventures, Garuda Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Embark Ventures, Zero Shot Fund, Recall Capital, E14 Fund, and Spot VC. The company is building modular, cell-based manufacturing powered by foundation models.

Foundry Robotics is developing dual-use contract manufacturing capabilities to serve both commercial customers and the Department of Defense. The company aims to enable generalized robotic assembly across diverse operations without traditional retooling overhead, addressing America's manufacturing capacity challenges.