Los Angeles, CA · 15EMPLOYEES— WHO WE ARE

Our engineers have created machines that
absolutely couldn't fail.

We're a team of robot designers and creators. Our former NASA engineers led teams that built major components for the Mars Rover...Those systems had to run for years with no one to service them, and are still running today. We brought that innovation and reliability to cannabis.

2018
FOUNDED · LOS ANGELES, CA
15
EMPLOYEES · ENG · OPS · GTM
5
PRODUCTS IN THE FLEET
Origin

We perfected planetary exploration.
Now we're perfecting cannabis.

Our founders spent the 2010s at NASA and JPL, building landers, rovers, and precision manipulators that had to work the first time, a hundred million miles from the nearest screwdriver.

When they started looking at cannabis manufacturing in 2020, they saw the same throughput-vs-consistency problem they'd already solved in aerospace. The category had world-class genetics and no industrial-grade tooling. So they built it.

“CANNABIS DESERVES THE SAME LEVEL OF INNOVATION, QUALITY, AND RELIABILITY AS EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY. BUT IT HASN'T BEEN AVAILABLE, UNTIL NOW. TALK TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND YOU'LL UNDERSTAND HOW SORTING ROBOTICS IS LEADING THE WAY.”
— NOHTAL PARTANSKY · CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Eight years later we've shipped five products and deployed over 250 machines. Still in LA. And still innovating to lead the way.

SHOP FLOOR · 2020SHOP FLOOR · 2020
FOUNDERS · 2022FOUNDERS · 2022
TEAM · 2025TEAM · 2025
Principles

Six rules the shop
runs on.

/ 01
Ship on Thursday.
Every release candidate has to leave the floor by Thursday afternoon. Deadlines fix a lot of engineering debates.
CADENCE
/ 02
Specs beat vibes.
If you can't measure it, you can't guarantee it. We ensure the quality of our products no matter what.
ENGINEERING
/ 03
Sit with operators.
Technicians fly to customers to train with them. We stand next to the machine and get the operating team in full production mode by the time we fly out.
FIELD
/ 04
Build for the second machine.
Anything we can't reproduce ten times in a row isn't done. Prototypes don't count as products.
MANUFACTURING
/ 05
Our customers are everything.
We value our customers and provide support for them no matter the cost.
COMMERCIAL
/ 06
Make it in LA.
Every machine is manufactured, tuned, and QA'd within 20 miles of our shop. Closer feedback loops, better parts.
SUPPLY CHAIN
The Team

The operators, engineers
and builders behind the fleet.

Nohtal Partansky
SR/001
Nohtal Partansky
Chief Executive Officer
Lincoln Fish
SR/002
Lincoln Fish
Chief Revenue Officer
Patrick DeGrosse Jr.
SR/003
Patrick DeGrosse Jr.
Director of Engineering
Ryan McCanna
SR/004
Ryan McCanna
Director of Production
Nuri Moon
SR/005
Nuri Moon
Controller
Eddie Abravanel
SR/006
Eddie Abravanel
Head of Sales & Business
Gianluc Gamino
SR/007
Gianluc Gamino
Customer Experience Manager
Cathy Ruiz
SR/008
Cathy Ruiz
Operations Coordinator
Matthew Gildner
SR/009
Matthew Gildner
Robotics Product Development
Ben Mayeux
SR/010
Ben Mayeux
Senior Software Developer
Patrick Tejada
SR/011
Patrick Tejada
Software Support Technician
Nico Kemblowski
SR/012
Nico Kemblowski
Installation Technician
Robert Wilson
SR/013
Robert Wilson
Robotics Technician
SR/014
Jaylen O'Neal
Robotics Technician
Jacqueline Baltazar
SR/015
Jacqueline Baltazar
Executive Assistant
Milestones

Eight years, five machines, one factory floor.

2018

Sorting Robotics founded

Three engineers, a card sorting machine, and a Y Combinator acceptance.

2020

The pivot to cannabis

The team turns its robotics toward cannabis, and the first Jiko takes shape on the shop floor.

2021

Jiko launches

The first automated pre-roll infusion robot reaches customer floors at 1,000 infused joints an hour.

2023

Stardust launches

The world's first automated kief coating robot, from proof of concept to launch in four months.

2025

Telti debuts

Autonomous decision making arrives for unstructured assembly, unveiled at MJBizCon.

2026

WavePak launches

The first public look at precision pre-roll packing, and the demand starts arriving immediately.

Join Us

We're hiring operators and
roboticists in LA.

If you've shipped physical product and like a floor that smells faintly of machine oil and terpenes, we probably want to talk.

See Open Roles →Book a Demo