# Powering the Future of Robotics with Performance-First AI Infrastructure

**Customer:** Hillbot AI

Hillbot leveraged WEKA® NeuralMesh Axon™ on their GPU instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to eliminate data and AI bottlenecks.

[Hillbot AI](https://www.hillbot.ai/) is an emerging robotics startup developing advanced AI systems to power the next generation of intelligent machines. As they ramped up AI model training, Hillbot needed a fast, cost-efficient data infrastructure to handle metadata-heavy, I/O-intensive workloads.

With WEKA, Hillbot dramatically boosted training performance and maximized GPU utilization to accelerate product development and reduce their cost of innovation.