Rafael Hostettler

Rafael Hostettler is co-founder and CEO of Devanthro, building Robody, a humanoid robot platform for every home, but starting with elder care as the wedge. His path ran through an MSc. from ETH Zurich, working for Disney Research (1 patent, 1 best paper award), to doctoral research at TUM under Prof. Knoll, leading the musculoskeletal humanoid project Roboy, and building a CE and FDA cleared MedTech in interventional radiology Medical Templates AG (3 patents) before going all in on home humanoids with Devanthro. Devanthro's thesis is simple: care wins the home, not a D2C approach nor factory data, and a unique twist on teleoperation builds the proprietary in-home behavioral data moat today. The company runs live deployments in Germany since 2024 and is starting to expand this year.