Jaskaran Singh Walia is Co-Founder of Aktoria Robotics, a Y Combinator-backed (S26) company building the human-as-API layer for robot deployments, enabling robotics companies to ship faster with a 24/7 global teleop network.

Jaskaran is an MS in Machine Learning student at Carnegie Mellon University and has conducted AI and robotics research at MIT, Cambridge, and Microsoft Research.

He has authored 15+ research papers spanning LLM pipelines, vision, NLP, and multimodal learning, with work accepted for oral presentation at TAROS 2023 at the University of Cambridge.

At Aktoria Robotics, Jaskaran co-built a proprietary low-latency teleop software stack achieving 40ms cross-country latency, with 15+ trained operators in India running robots across 4 US sites 24/7 at over 50% less cost than in-house operators.

Aktoria is positioned as pick-and-shovel infrastructure for the global robotics market, operating against a $70B+ industry wave as embodied AI moves from labs into warehouses, streets, and homes.