Primordiant

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About Primordiant

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Embodied Scientific Intelligence

Every instance of intelligence occurring in nature is embodied. Scientific intelligence is no different. We are building general-purpose robotic experimentalists: systems that unite scientific reasoning and physical action to iterate toward discovery by observing, hypothesizing and experimenting.

YC batch: Fall 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 3
Location: San Francisco
Country: US
Status: Active
Industry: Industrials
Stage: Early
Tags: Robotics, Energy, Advanced Materials, AI, Biotechnology
YC partner: Aaron Epstein

Founders

Owen Tower — Founder/CEO

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.

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Cooper Niu — Founder/CTO

Founder of Primordiant. PhD in Physics from Brown University. Researches LLM and AI agents for scientific discovery. Created ALBERT, an autonomous AI particle physicist that proposes, verifies, and iteratively refines physical theories; given only pre-1990 data, it recovered the top quark’s mass and properties in under an hour. Previously worked on neutrino physics with the NOvA experiment at Fermilab and on LHC experiments at CERN.

Benedict Quartey — Founder

CS PhD from Brown. Pioneered generally capable yet verifiable robot autonomy, combining foundation models with symbolic planning and spatial world models so robots can follow open-ended instructions with guarantees. Built LIMP (ICRA 2025; best paper finalist, TAMP@ICRA), the first system to do this in real-world environments without prebuilt maps, and PACTS (IROS 2026), learned skills that compose zero-shot. Previously at the Boston Dynamics Robotics & AI Institute.