Augmenting human creativity
At Sanctuary, our goal is to understand the human mind well enough to build one in a machine.

A refuge, a haven, a sanctuary
The year was 2018. Co-founders Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal established Sanctuary as a safe place for those with a shared passion in AI and robotics to gather and work collaboratively on perhaps the most complex technical challenge in front of humankind: how to build a human-like brain and system that’s capable of executing human-like tasks in a safe way.
As ambitious as that sounds, we believe now is the right time to make it happen.

Understanding success
What does success look like? Great question. We will know we have been successful when, to a person observing one of our general-purpose robots, it is not possible to tell whether it is being directly operated by a human pilot or whether it is being controlled by its built-in autonomous control system.
Leaders with vision
and purpose
Founders
Geordie Rose
Suzanne Gildert
Olivia Norton
Ajay Agrawal
Leadership

Geordie Rose
Co-Founder & CEO

Suzanne Gildert
Co-Founder & CTO

Matt Ellis
SVP Engineering

Philip Smith
Chief Financial Officer

James Wells
Chief Commercial Officer

Ben Reed
Chief Marketing Officer

Olivia Norton
Co-Founder & CIO

Brad Bycraft
VP of Operations

Thomas Mahon
VP of Intellectual Property

Zac Engler
Director of Talent Acquisition
Board of Directors
Geordie Rose
Suzanne Gildert
Ajay Agrawal
Martin Reed
Mark Evans
Dave Cummings
John Watson
Investors include








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