Duality AI
San Mateo, CA company offering Falcon, a digital twin simulation platform for training and validating AI and autonomous robotic systems.
Duality AI is a San Mateo, California-based simulation and digital twin software company founded in 2018. The company was co-founded by Apurva Shah, who serves as CEO and brings a background from Pixar Animation Studios' graphics pipeline, and Mike Taylor, who led Caterpillar Inc.'s field robotics teams and contributed to CMU's DARPA Urban Challenge winning entry.
Duality AI's primary product is Falcon, a high-fidelity digital twin simulation platform built on Unreal Engine. Falcon enables robotics developers, autonomous vehicle teams, and defense contractors to construct photorealistic virtual environments that closely replicate physical laws, sensor characteristics, and object dynamics. Within these simulations, users can generate synthetic perception training data, stress-test autonomy algorithms, and validate AI behavior in scenarios that would be unsafe or impractical to run in the real world.
The Falcon ecosystem includes FalconEditor, a desktop authoring tool for composing environments and defining simulation scenarios, and FalconCloud, a browser-accessible service that allows teams to run complex simulations without specialized local hardware or GPU infrastructure. The company has also launched Vibe Sim, an agentic simulation co-pilot, funded in part by an Epic Games MegaGrant. The platform supports import of standard simulation-ready assets, robot and drone models, and custom sensor configurations.
Duality AI holds more than 70 patents across robotics, simulation, and visualization. The company has established a strong presence in the US defense sector: the US Army contracted Duality AI for development of an AI-based anti-drone target detection and recognition system for the XM30 infantry fighting vehicle program. Additionally, Duality AI has partnered with Kitware and CoVar on DARPA's ASIMOV program to develop ethical evaluation frameworks for military autonomous systems. The company also worked with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the DARPA RACER autonomous offroad vehicle program.
Duality AI partners with AWS for cloud deployment and offers educational (EDU) licenses for academic and research users. The company's Crunchbase profile is listed under the handle duality-robotics.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
FalconCloud
Browser-based service for running Falcon digital twin simulations without local GPU hardware requirements.
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WEBSITE
https://www.duality.aiPHONE
+1 (650) 761-0167HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2018
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Software/Algorithm
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Primary Region
North America
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