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Robotics · San Francisco, CA · Founded 2026 · Formation stage

Primordiant

Embodied Scientific Intelligence

Review noteYC directory lists Primordiant (formerly SuperRadiant) in the Fall 2026 batch, founded 2026, team of 3 in San Francisco. The three founders hold or are finishing Brown PhDs in physics and computer science. No funding amount is published. Source ↗

Edge

40#5 · Unchanged in 7d

3 of 8 families

Team from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Boston Dynamics

Why now

  1. Filed its first 4 trademark applications in one day, all intent to use, including ESI for humanoid robots

    Regulatory · Oct 3

  2. Domain primordiant.com was registered on Sep 24

    Traffic · Sep 24

  3. Listed in YC Fall 2026 under Manufacturing and Robotics, now a team of 3

    Launch · Sep 9

People

  • Owen Tower

    Founder/CEO

    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Founder at Primordiant (formerly SuperRadiant). PhD in Physics from Brown, where he invented novel algorithms to discover phase transitions in random-field Ising models, in addition to using micro and nanofluidics to study analogous system experimentally. Research experience at NASA JPL and CERN/LHC. Trained in nanofabrication, microfluidics, and ML methods including PINNs and reinforcement learning.

  • Cooper Niu

    Founder/CTO

    PhD in Physics from Brown University. Created ALBERT, an autonomous AI particle physicist that proposes, verifies, and iteratively refines physics theories; given pre-1990 data, it recovered the top quark's mass and properties in under an hour. Previously researched neutrinos at Fermilab on the NOvA experiment. Featured in APS Physics Magazine: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/119

  • Benedict Quartey

    Founder

    Boston Dynamics

    Founder at Primordiant. PhD in Computer Science from Brown University, where I invented novel methods for building generally capable, verifiable robots and spatial world models. Previously developed AI systems that combined learning, reasoning, and planning for reliable long-horizon autonomy at the Boston Dynamics Robotics & AI Institute.

Score

Momentum43

 

Regulatory, launch, traffic

Thesis fit94

× 0.95

Matched on battery, energy, humanoid, industrial, manufacturing

Earliness100

× 1.00

Almost no public footprint

Team80

× 0.97

Team from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Boston Dynamics

43 × 0.95 × 1.00 × 0.97 = 40

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 3RegulatoryFiled its first 4 trademark applications in one day, all intent to use, including ESI for humanoid robots↗
  2. Sep 24TrafficDomain primordiant.com was registered on Sep 24↗
  3. Sep 9LaunchListed in YC Fall 2026 under Manufacturing and Robotics, now a team of 3↗
  4. Aug 28TrafficDomain superradiant.co was registered on Aug 28↗