The a16z Show · Tuesday, July 28, 2026
The acquisition of Cinex by World Labs brings together complementary expertise, with Cinex contributing strong leadership and technical prowess in full-stack robotics, and its co-founders bringing deep knowledge in simulation and computer vision. This union aims to create a more complete solution for spatial intelligence and robotics.
“It's actually the TLD R is is very complementary and with a shared mission.”
“One is obviously Yun Jun's incredible talent leadership and just technical prowess in robotics. From really from hardware, full stack robotics.”
“Then on the Tang Shi side is just incredible simulation capabilities, right? He's such a senior researcher and technologist in simulation. And and Tang Shi has his background in also computer vision, 3D reconstruction.”