Intempus

Intempus is a San Francisco-based robotics startup founded in September 2024 by 19-year-old Teddy Warner (Thiel Fellow), focused on giving existing robots human-like emotional expression through biomimetic body movement. Rather than building new robot hardware, Intempus retrofits commercial robots with physiological state modeling — capturing signals like temperature and movement patterns — to generate subtle, instinctive emotional cues via arm and torso gestures, with seven enterprise robotics partnerships already secured.