Atelier West: Where AI Takes Shape

A 12-week equity-free residency for Physical AI founders.

Shaping the future of Physical AI startups

Atelier West is a 12-week, cash- and equity-free, cohort-based residency based in San Francisco Mission Rock for Physical AI startups with lab access, expert mentorship, and enterprise partners, designed to give your technology a place to prove itself and scale.

A hardware residency for robotics startups, autonomous machines, and computer vision systems: an equity-free alternative to a traditional accelerator.

Built to Build

Six labs for rapid prototyping, industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering, metrology, and new product introduction.

Hands-On Experts

Structured working sessions with frog, Synapse, and Capgemini Experience Engineering experts, across strategy, design, hardware, AI, simulation, and embedded software.

A Straight Line to Enterprises

Capgemini works with 85% of the 200 largest public companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list, bringing real world applications for what you build here.

The future of AI is physical

The next chapter of AI is intelligence that acts, sensing its environment, understanding what’s needed, and taking action in the physical world. No equity or cash is exchanged.