{
  "name": "Defex",
  "alternate_name": "Defex Robotics",
  "url": "https://defexrobotics.com/",
  "description": "Defex is developing self-teaching assembly robots for manufacturing, starting with connector assembly.",
  "location": "San Francisco, California, United States",
  "as_of": "2026-09-17",
  "product": {
    "focus": "Connector assembly",
    "stage": "Assembly cell in development",
    "approach": "A robot attempts an assembly, a physical test scores the result, and a reset prepares the next attempt.",
    "prior_product": "Vision inspection prototype built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin"
  },
  "paid_waitlist": {
    "factories": 21,
    "definition": "Factories that paid to hold a place before the first assembly cell ships.",
    "as_of": "2026-09-17"
  },
  "founders": [
    {
      "name": "Husan Mavlonov",
      "role": "Co-founder and CEO",
      "id": "https://husanmavlonov.com/#person",
      "url": "https://husanmavlonov.com/",
      "bio": "Hardware researcher with more than three years in electronics manufacturing and batteries, with factory operations experience across Uzbekistan, Turkiye, China and the United States."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hasan Mavlonov",
      "role": "Co-founder and CTO",
      "id": "https://defexrobotics.com/company/#hasan-mavlonov",
      "bio": "Built an AI question-generation pipeline for a government education platform with more than 60,000 students. Leads Defex's robot software and hardware integration."
    }
  ],
  "contact": "husan@defexrobotics.com",
  "links": {
    "company": "https://defexrobotics.com/company/",
    "technical_note": "https://defexrobotics.com/blog/the-cost-of-the-next-attempt/",
    "inspection_demo": "https://defexrobotics.com/#origin",
    "blog": "https://defexrobotics.com/blog/",
    "feed": "https://defexrobotics.com/blog/feed.xml"
  }
}