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Theseus Robotics - Introducing Theseus Robotics (YC F26). Our robots restocks supermark
Theseus Robotics · Nov 2026 · 1:52 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 1:52
- Scenes
- 30 · 3.8 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:09
- Features shown
- 4
- Voiceover
- Yes
00:00:00 / 01:53:00
Theseus Robotics’s 1:52 launch film runs 30 scenes, about 3.8 s each. The product shows up at 0:09 and 4 features are revealed, with social proof. There is no explicit call to action; a voiceover carries the film. A cinematic product film for Theseus Robotics built as a single night in a Zürich supermarket, cut at a steady ~9 cuts per minute to a 112 bpm pulse. It alternates live action, blue-lit 3D renders and talking-head interviews, each stamped with a red-bracketed timecode HUD, dashed tracking grids and word-by-word captions that circle key words in red, so the structure reads as a timed log of the robot's shift from lights out to doors open.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 official logo — reused across the film · 21 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 6 3D passages — build or supply
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Theseus Robotics - Introducing Theseus Robotics (YC F26). Our robots restocks supermark, scene by scene
· 30 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:03
A man in a black turtleneck and flat cap stands in a supermarket aisle, gesturing while speaking. A white humanoid robot holding a red basket sits behind him. White caption text reads We put humanoids, then into supermarkets, the last word in a red outline.
On-screen text: “We put humanoids”, “into supermarkets”
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:03–0:06
A man in a flat cap points at a white humanoid robot holding a red basket in a grocery aisle. The robot stands between shelves of drinks, a second robot idles in the background. The locked-off camera holds as captions build at the bottom.
On-screen text: “During the day”, “our robots”, “automate order picking”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:06–0:09
A dim grocery aisle at night. A man in a black cap walks past the camera while a white humanoid robot on a wheeled base reaches onto a drink shelf behind him. A red 'Overnight' tag sits at the bottom, then a lower third names the speaker.
On-screen text: “Overnight”, “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “Samarth Malhotra”, “CO-FOUNDER & CEO”, “we restock grocery shelves”
Camera: Static
04 · Product intro · 0:09–0:12
A man in a flat cap and round glasses speaks to camera in a dim grocery aisle, a white humanoid robot working among the shelves behind him. A white nameplate with red corner brackets labels him; on the right, red segments assemble into the Theseus Robotics logo.
On-screen text: “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “Samarth Malhotra”, “CO-FOUNDER & CEO”, “we restock grocery shelves”, “THeseus”, “ROBOTICS”
Camera: Static
05 · Problem · 0:12–0:13
A locked-off view of a dim supermarket interior seen through glass, with a shopper walking past on the left. A white time overlay ticks from 18:00 to 18:19 as a location line and the caption Every night fade in at the bottom.
On-screen text: “18:00”, “Zürich, Switzerland”, “Every night”
Camera: Static
06 · Problem · 0:13–0:14
A dark server room fills the frame. A large white clock on the left ticks from 20:51 to 21:00 above 'Zürich, Switzerland'. At the bottom, 'Every night at 21:00' builds up, the time in red inside an oval, as it fades to black.
On-screen text: “20:51”, “Zürich, Switzerland”, “Every night”, “at 21:00”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:14–0:16
A dark night background holds faint blurred lights. Top left, a white 21:00 sits in red viewfinder brackets beside Zürich, while the caption this store closes rests bottom center, closes circled in red. The lights fade and small LIGHTS OUT appears above.
On-screen text: “21:00”, “Zürich, Switzerland”, “this store closes”, “LIGHTS OUT”
Camera: Static
08 · Problem · 0:16–0:21
A dark, blue-tinted supermarket aisle holds a lone figure seated on a bench, centered by a slow camera drift. Subtitles appear at the bottom, circling 'lights' and 'home' in red, while a red-bracketed '21:04' and the label 'LIGHTS OUT' sit top left.
On-screen text: “21:04”, “LIGHTS OUT”, “The lights go out”, “and everyone goes home”, “Well...”
Camera: Pull out
09 · Problem · 0:21–0:22
A blue-lit robot head racks from blur into sharp focus in a dark room, a teal glow at its neck. A red-bracketed timestamp and LIGHTS OUT sit top left while the caption everyone except scales in at the bottom, except boxed in red.
On-screen text: “21:04”, “LIGHTS OUT”, “everyone except”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
10 · Product intro · 0:22–0:24
A dark, blue-lit shot of a humanoid robot's head and glowing cyan chest. The large white wordmark 'theo' opens over the robot's face inside a thin red targeting frame with corner brackets, while the bottom caption shifts from 'everyone except' to 'theo is our humanoid robot', key words circled in red.
On-screen text: “everyone except”, “theo”, “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “theo is our humanoid robot”
Techniques: Masking, Kinetic type
Camera: Static
11 · Feature reveal · 0:24–0:29
A white humanoid robot crouches in a dark blue-lit store aisle, picking coffee packages from a lower shelf and placing them on the upper shelf. A bracketed timestamp and RESTOCKING label sit top left while captions build word by word along the bottom.
On-screen text: “21:12”, “RESTOCKING”, “theo is our humanoid robot”, “Every night he comes online”, “and restocks this store's shelves”
Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup
Camera: Static
12 · Feature reveal · 0:29–0:34
A white robotic arm places red cans on a blue-lit supermarket shelf as a caption reads 'and restocks this store's shelves.' A dashed tracking grid and an orange GRIPPER bounding box overlay the shot, then a large red counter appears at lower left.
On-screen text: “21:40”, “RESTOCKING”, “and restocks this store's shelves”, “PICK RATE”, “419”, “units an hour”, “GRIPPER”
Camera: Static
13 · Social proof · 0:34–0:40
A young engineer in a cream jacket sits in a robotics lab, speaking to camera; monitors and a gripper fill the background. A name lower-third with red corner brackets assembles on the right, and white subtitles with red keywords cycle along the bottom.
On-screen text: “and picks 40 units per hour”, “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “Xander Yap”, “ROBOT LEARNING ENGINEER”, “for online orders”, “Every shift he runs”, “makes the model”, “so both numbers keep going up”
Camera: Static
14 · Feature reveal · 0:40–0:47
A white humanoid robot stands at a backroom table, lifting a gold-wrapped item from a cardboard box and dropping it into a black crate. Stacked colored crates and wicker baskets fill the background. A timestamp and the word UNBOXING sit top left, while captions fade in at the bottom.
On-screen text: “21:50”, “UNBOXING”, “22:30”, “At night”, “theo automates the whole restocking process”, “He unboxes cartons”
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:47–0:50
A man in a beige shirt stands in a blurred supermarket aisle, speaking to camera. A lower-third nameplate with red corner brackets draws in on the left, while a caption line at the bottom swaps phrases, setting one keyword in red inside a thin rounded outline.
On-screen text: “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “Ádám Weinhardt-Kovács”, “CO-FOUNDER & CPO”, “throws away trash”, “moves trolleys”, “and restocks the shelves”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · Feature reveal · 0:50–0:57
A white humanoid robot stands at a supermarket freezer case, shelves of goods behind it. It grips a bag of snacks, lifts it and drops it into a black crate. A bracketed timer counts up beside an ONLINE ORDERS label while captions appear at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Ádám Weinhardt-Kovács”, “CO FOUNDER & CPO”, “ONLINE ORDERS”, “00:29”, “During the day”, “10:22”, “he picks online orders”, “and hands them over to customers”, “16:01”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Speed ramp
Camera: Static
17 · Problem · 0:57–0:59
Locked-off dark shot of a supermarket aisle where a white robotic arm reaches toward shelves of pasta boxes and flour bags. A dashed grid overlay covers the lower shelves, a timestamp HUD sits top left, and the caption types in word by word at the lower left.
On-screen text: “23:20”, “Every shelf in a supermarket is different,”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
18 · Problem · 0:59–1:03
A white humanoid robot reaches for coffee bags on a dim, blue-lit supermarket shelf, camera locked off. A white caption types out line by line, the word different circled in red. Near the end the lighting lifts, the dashed overlay and timecode drop, and a new line starts typing.
On-screen text: “23:20”, “Every shelf in a supermarket is different,”, “and that's why retail is so hard to automate.”, “We build the brain for this task”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
19 · Feature reveal · 1:03–1:10
Two men sit on chairs in a warehouse while a white humanoid robot with moving arms stands between them in front of stocked shelves. Lower-third name tags with red corner brackets wipe in for each speaker, and lowercase subtitles appear at the bottom, key words circled in red.
On-screen text: “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “Kristóf Floch”, “CO-FOUNDER & CTO”, “We build the brain for this task”, “and buy the body”, “THESEUS ROBOTICS”, “Jianwen Cao”, “CO-FOUNDER & CRO”, “theo sees thousands of hours”, “of productive manipulation”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Static
20 · Feature reveal · 1:10–1:18
A white humanoid robot works a dark supermarket aisle, reaching for bottles. A red HUD box flags a misplaced bottle, labeling it 'out of place', then 'moving it to the right shelf', then 'back in place'. A bottom caption reads 'The more he sees, the more he can do'.
On-screen text: “ERROR CORRECTION”, “out of place”, “The more he sees”, “the more he can do”, “moving it to the right shelf”, “back in place”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Parallax
Camera: Pan
21 · Demo · 1:18–1:19
A white humanoid robot head with two dark horizontal visor slits sits centered in a dark room, its surface softly lit against a blurred background of teal and red bokeh. A red-bracketed timecode counts down in the top-left corner while the head drifts a few pixels.
On-screen text: “02:31”, “02:30”
Camera: Static
22 · Demo · 1:19–1:20
A white humanoid robot head sits centered in a dark room with blurred teal lights, a red-bracketed 02:30 timer holding in the top-left corner. The face darkens and dissolves into horizontal dashed scan lines that sweep across and fill the frame.
On-screen text: “02:30”
Camera: Static
23 · Demo · 1:20–1:23
A dark stockroom with a white robot arm on a charging dock, shelves of boxes to the right and a red recycling sign to the left. A large white timer counts up fast across the frame, a dashed line grid runs through it, and the caption charging sits below.
On-screen text: “03:29”, “06:51”, “06:55”, “07:01”, “charging”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
24 · Demo · 1:23–1:28
A white humanoid robot seated on a small base in a dim storeroom unfolds into a standing pose and turns toward shelves of boxes. A red-bracketed HUD panel on the right fills with an order checklist while a 07:02 NEW ORDER tag holds in the top left.
On-screen text: “07:02”, “NEW ORDER”, “Order #32443”, “2 × Vollmilch 1 L”, “1 × Vitamin Well”, “1 × Le Gruyère AOP”, “1 × Camembert”, “1 × Zweifel Chips”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
25 · Demo · 1:28–1:34
A white humanoid robot stands at a cheese aisle, holding a red basket and reaching to the shelves to place products inside. A dark HUD panel on the left ticks off order line items as the robot picks, with a timer and 'PICKING' label top left.
On-screen text: “07:02”, “PICKING”, “Order #32443”, “08:27”, “2 × Vollmilch 1 L”, “1 × Vitamin Well”, “1 × Le Gruyère AOP”, “1 × Camembert”, “1 × Zweifel Chips”
Camera: Static
26 · Demo · 1:34–1:43
A white humanoid robot at a checkout lifts a snack bag from a red basket into a brown paper bag, then grips the bag handle. Cigarette shelves and a payment terminal sit behind. A top-left timecode reads 08:59 with label HANDOVER, switching to 09:00 and DOORS OPEN.
On-screen text: “08:59”, “HANDOVER”, “09:00”, “DOORS OPEN”
Camera: Static
27 · Demo · 1:43–1:45
A white humanoid robot at a store checkout lowers a red shopping basket onto the counter with its arm. A foreground panel of dotted vertical lines wipes away to reveal the scene. A red-bracketed 09:00 timestamp and DOORS OPEN caption hold at top left.
On-screen text: “09:00”, “DOORS OPEN”
Techniques: Masking, 3D mockup
Camera: Static
28 · Demo · 1:45–1:46
A white humanoid robot works a store checkout, its arms moving over a red basket on a stainless counter. Shelves blur in the background. A red bracketed timestamp and DOORS OPEN hold in the top left corner over a dotted graphic field on the left.
On-screen text: “09:00”, “DOORS OPEN”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
29 · Outro · 1:46–1:49
On a black background, a red segmented logo mark assembles from small bars in the center. The word THeseus draws in below it, then ROBOTICS and a small BACKED BY Y line fade in, holding briefly before the frame fades to black.
On-screen text: “THeseus”, “ROBOTICS”, “BACKED BY”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Masking
Camera: Static
30 · Outro · 1:49–1:52
On a coral red background, the small label Next stop: and the large headline San Francisco. sit on the left, their color deepening from maroon to black. A grid of small dashes along the bottom edge shuffles, with ticks rotating into X marks on the right.
On-screen text: “Next stop:”, “San Francisco.”, “THeseus”, “ROBOTICS”, “BACKED BY”
Camera: Static