Small machines,—large ideas.
Tiny Robot Company is a studio of one working at the seam between language models, circuits and things that move. Applied GenAI, small-batch electronics, and the occasional robot that behaves.
Selected benchwork.
Signal Sketchbook.
A live visualiser that turns conversation and ambient audio into evolving generative graphics. Runs entirely offline on a mid-range laptop — Whisper into a custom WebGL pipeline, no cloud round-trips, no waiting.
- Workshop
- Online
- Response
- ~ 12h
- Focus
- GenAI + HW
- Slots
- 2 / Q4
Small Voice.
A local assistant on a Pi Zero 2 W. Wake-word, no cloud, low-milliwatt.
Servo Loom.
Four-axis textile plotter driven by an LLM planner. Type a phrase, weave a pattern.
Retina Kit.
A breadboard-scale computer-vision teaching kit. Pixels to inference in a weekend.
AI Function, Standing Start.
Built and led an AI engineering function from zero inside a global industrial supplier — architecture, hiring, delivery. No pilots that died in committee; this one runs.
One operator, one bench.
Before the bench, 10 years building things that actually had to work, leading AI engineering inside a global industrial company. Shipping software, that ran in production, not in slideshows.
TheTiny Robot Company is what happens when that same discipline gets pointed at two things: small self contained machines, and AI functions that companies need to build properly, not just talked about
- Name
- Simon Holmes, PhD
- Role
- Full-stack GenAI architect / engineer
- Base
- Paris · remote-first
- Available
- Consulting · Q4 2026 · 2 slots
- Preferred brief
- Small, weird, well-defined.
Have something big or small
that needs to think, move or scale?
Briefs are read the same day. Fit-check reply within two working days, prototype within four weeks where the scope allows.