Built by people who’ve shipped production AI
Industrial Next was founded by engineers and researchers from Tesla, Waymo, Ford, GM, Amazon, MIT, CMU, the University of Washington, and the University of Michigan. We bring autonomous-systems engineering to factory automation, where reliability and deployment speed matter.
The team behind AI-defined manufacturing
Lukas Pankau
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-founded Industrial Next in November 2021 to bring adaptive automation to factories. Background in electrical, Autopilot, and autonomous systems at Tesla and Waymo.
Allen Pan
CEO Asia & Co-Founder
Co-founded Industrial Next in November 2021. Previously worked on advanced manufacturing automation at Tesla and autonomous systems at General Motors.
