EON plans to turn the jobs Field IQ teaches people into Skill Packs a robot can use, practised thousands of times in EON Genesis before it touches the real machine. Built in stages.
IRVINE, CA — October 20, 2026 — EON AI Ventures, today unveiled its vision for EON Robot IQ, a new initiative designed to transfer human operational expertise into the next generation of intelligent industrial robots. While robots can already perform physical actions such as gripping a valve or manipulating equipment, they often lack the practical knowledge required to understand the correct sequence of work, recognize safety conditions, and determine when a task has been completed successfully. EON Robot IQ aims to bridge this gap by capturing how experienced workers perform real-world tasks and transforming that expertise into structured, verifiable Work Intelligence that could eventually guide robotic operations. The initiative will be developed in stages, beginning with human knowledge capture and validation before progressing toward robotic applications, with no deployment on physical robots at this stage. The vision, development roadmap, and approach to transferring human know-how into robotic intelligence are detailed in the accompanying white paper, “Robot IQ: Teaching Robots with Human Know-How.”
Robots have bodies, not know-how
Robots you can buy can grip, lift and turn. But the order of the steps, the right part and what “done” looks like live in workers’ heads, and almost no public video of industrial work exists to learn from.
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Teach the person, and the robot learns too
EON Field IQ already guides workers through a job at the real machine, checks each step from a photo and records the result. EON will now keep the motion too, in one capture library of every guided session: video, 3D hand joints, depth, parts, step labels and verdicts, kept raw for future robots and distilled for today’s training. Nothing leaves the phone without the worker’s consent and a contract that allows learning.
“Robots are getting good bodies. What they lack is know-how,” said Dan Lejerskar, Chairman and Founder of EON AI Ventures. “Field IQ already teaches that to people, one checked step at a time. Robot IQ will use the same steps to teach robots.”
Three lessons, in order
Human video from Field IQ first. A person does the job while the camera records their view, and software tracks their hands in 3D. It is the cheapest lesson, and Field IQ already knows each step and its verdict.
Then simulation in EON Genesis. Genesis will run thousands of simulations of the same skid and task, so a robot can practise one job, such as closing a pump-skid valve, many thousands of times, with variations, before it touches the real machine. EON already has 12 oil-and-gas skids in 3D, with their SOPs: a ready-made start.
Then a little remote control. A person drives the robot while it records its own moves, fitting the skill to that robot’s body.
Why EON
EON brings three things together: Field IQ, which teaches people at the real machine and records skilled work step by step, checked by EON Assess IQ; industrial procedures and 3D machines in Genesis, the Situation Room skids and Mirror Direct; and simulation at scale in Genesis. All three feed one Skill Pack, for a person or a robot: work intelligence for people today, and for robots next.
One Skill Pack, for a person or a robot
A Skill Pack packages one industry’s jobs, oil and gas first: each an approved SOP with steps, checks, parts, expert demonstrations and safety rules. Field IQ Ultra will run it for a person; Robot IQ will run the same pack on a robot, with the same check after every step.
Where it starts
Valve isolation on pump skids, with people fitting every lock and tag. Switchgear racking, keeping people away from arc-flash risk. Routine inspection rounds: reading gauges, checking for leaks. Taking samples at hazardous points. CNC machine changeover and setup. Maintenance in confined or hot spaces. The robot takes the dangerous or repetitive step; people stay in charge. Early runs will be on mock-ups with no stored energy, a person approving each step.
“It is two birds with one stone,” Lejerskar said. “Every session that trains a worker today can teach a robot tomorrow. Our goal: an off-the-shelf robot that loads an oil-and-gas Skill Pack and does the job well. Until our tests prove it, it stays a goal.”
Built in stages, people first
EON plans to build in this order, testing each stage before the next:
- Consent, contract terms and data rules.
- The capture library, keeping what the phone already measures.
- One Skill Pack format for Field IQ Ultra and Robot IQ.
- A lab pilot: one valve, practised in Genesis, then on a robot arm.
- A first industry Skill Pack on an off-the-shelf robot.
Availability
Robot IQ will arrive stage by stage; no robot work is on sale. No dates are given.
The white paper Robot IQ: teaching robots with human know-how and its deck set out the design, the stages and what EON still has to prove. Both are available on request.
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About EON AI Ventures
EON AI Ventures is the company behind Work Intelligence — the captured, verified, and compounding knowledge of how expert work is actually done. Its Intelligence Flywheel platform (Genesis, Field IQ, Assess IQ) enables industrial enterprises to encode expert procedures into AI-guided simulations, deliver them to any worker on any device, and verify competency in the field. EON AI Ventures builds on a 25-year foundation of immersive learning technology deployed across more than 80 countries. For more information, visit www.eonaiventures.com