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ISEE and the Breakthrough in Common-Sense Autonomous Infrastructure

For years, the venture capital world poured billions of dollars into autonomous vehicle companies trying to solve the open road. The consensus was that unstructured highways and city streets were the ultimate frontier. But at Hyperplane, we looked at the industrial and logistics landscape and recognized a different reality: shipping yards, distribution centers, and port hubs are some of the most logistically complex, high-risk, and chaotic environments on earth. Traditional autonomous vehicles—which rely on rigid, hard-coded rules—fail in these environments because they cannot handle the unpredictable movements of shifting trailers, human workers, and moving equipment.

This is exactly why we backed ISEE.

Spun out of the MIT Computational & Cognitive Science Group by founders Yibiao Zhao, Debbie Yu, and Chris Baker, ISEE didn't just build a better sensor array. They pioneered a completely new approach to physical AI based on "Theory of Mind"—the cognitive capability to infer the intent, psychology, and causality of surroundings in real-time. Instead of requiring pristine environments or massive, disruptive facility renovations, ISEE’s technology allows their autonomous yard trucks to anticipate what is coming around every corner, navigating unpredictable human-vehicle coordination safely and fluidly.  

We invested in ISEE because they align perfectly with our core thesis: backing gritty founders solving major industrial bottlenecks from the physical layer up. By creating the world's first fully autonomous commercial truck yards and designing a platform that seamlessly retrofits onto existing B2B fleets, ISEE isn't just selling future technology—they are delivering a massive, immediate leap in supply chain throughput, safety, and operational predictability for global logistics giants today.