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Terms of Service

Effective as of 1 September 2026.

1. Scope and parties

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are offered by:

Telekinesis GmbH
4.1.08, Neckarstraße 464283 DarmstadtGermany
Commercial register
Registration number: HRB 105059Registry court: Amtsgericht Darmstadt (Hesse District Court Darmstadt)VAT ID (USt-IdNr.): DE 00724601937
Represented by
Suman Pal, Arjun Vir Datta (Managing Directors)

("Telekinesis," "we," "us," or "our").

These Terms apply to:

By accessing or using the Website, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Website. Your use of any Telekinesis open-source software is governed by the applicable open-source license (see the relevant repository) and further by Section 2 below.

Parts of these Terms apply differently depending on who you are. "Consumer" (Verbraucher, § 13 BGB) means a natural person acting for purposes that are outside their trade, business, craft, or profession. "Business user" (Unternehmer, § 14 BGB) means any other user, including anyone using the Website on behalf of a company or other organization. Nothing in these Terms limits any right a Consumer has under mandatory German or EU law, and in case of doubt, the interpretation most favorable to the Consumer applies (§ 305c(2) BGB).

Our services are not directed at children under 16 years of age. See Section 14.

These Terms apply to this Website and to any Telekinesis open-source software we publish. If you or your organization have a separate signed agreement with us (for example, covering a paid API key, enterprise deployment, or pilot program), that agreement governs what it covers and controls over these Terms in the event of conflict.

2. Open-source licensing

The following Telekinesis components are published as open-source software, under the license stated for each:

Those licenses govern your use of that software, and nothing in these Terms limits the rights they grant you. Note that the GPL license covering Illusion carries copyleft obligations (for example, requiring derivative works to also be licensed under the GPL) that do not apply to the Apache-licensed components — check the specific license text in each repository before building on or redistributing it.

Some components distributed with this software may be provided by third parties under their own licenses, listed in the relevant repository, which apply to the components they cover.

All other Telekinesis software is proprietary, including the Telekinesis SDK, Tzara, the Skill library (beyond RLBotics and Illusion), our hosted platform, and any component requiring an API key. That software is licensed to you only to the extent set out in a separate agreement or order form, or, where no such agreement exists, is not licensed for use at all.

3. Acceptable use

The Website, our documentation, and our published examples exist so you can build with Telekinesis, including commercially. You may access, view, and download them for that purpose, and you may copy, modify, and use the code samples and examples we publish in your own projects, commercial or not, without further permission from us, except where a specific example states otherwise.

When using the Website, you agree not to:

  • copy, transmit, publish, distribute, display, or otherwise exploit the Website or its Materials (defined in Section 5), in whole or in substantial part, except as permitted above or under an applicable open-source license;
  • aggregate or scrape Website content to construct any kind of database;
  • use the Website for any unlawful purpose, or in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or export control;
  • attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, account, credential, or data, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our infrastructure, except with our prior written permission or under a published responsible-disclosure/bug-bounty policy;
  • interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Website, including via denial-of-service attacks or excessive automated requests;
  • reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble any non-open-source component of the Website or platform, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by mandatory law (including § 69e UrhG, where applicable to software interoperability);
  • request an API key or account using false, misleading, or another person's identity, or share your account credentials with unauthorized third parties;
  • upload or transmit malware or unlawful content; or
  • misrepresent your affiliation with Telekinesis, or remove or obscure any proprietary notice.

We may suspend or terminate access to the Website or your account if we reasonably believe it is being used in breach of this section (see also Section 12).

4. Export control and sanctions

You must comply with all applicable export control and economic sanctions laws when using the Website and Telekinesis software, including those administered by the European Union, Germany, and, where applicable, the United States (Export Administration Regulations and OFAC sanctions programs).

You represent and warrant that you are not:

  • located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in a country or territory subject to comprehensive EU or UN economic sanctions;
  • named on any restricted or denied-party list maintained by the European Union, Germany, the United Nations, or the United States; or
  • owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, any such person or entity.

You will not make Telekinesis software, Skills, or the platform available to any such person or entity, and will not use them for any end use prohibited by applicable export control law, including in connection with weapons of mass destruction or prohibited military end uses. This is particularly relevant given that Telekinesis software can be used to control physical robots and industrial equipment — you remain solely responsible for ensuring your specific deployment complies with applicable dual-use and export control regimes (including EU Dual-Use Regulation (EU) 2021/821, where applicable). We may suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe this section has been breached.

This section does not restrict rights granted to you under the open-source licenses referenced in Section 2.

5. Intellectual property

Telekinesis owns, or licenses from third parties, all rights in the Website, including all text, images, software, audio, video, links, and any combination or compilation of the same, and our documentation (together, "Materials"), and our trademarks, logos, and brand assets, including "Telekinesis," "Tzara," "BabyROS," and the Telekinesis logo, and our company name (collectively, the "Trademarks"). Except as permitted by the open-source licenses referenced in Section 2 or the permission granted in Section 3, neither the Website nor the Materials may be modified, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, publicly displayed, performed, or otherwise used, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent.

You may not display, reference, or use the Trademarks without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, service marks, and product or company names appearing on the Website belong to their respective owners.

Note: robot arm geometry used in our diagrams is © Universal Robots A/S, used under UR's Terms and Conditions for Use of Graphical Documentation, as credited on the Website; gripper and payload geometry are original to Telekinesis.

Except for rights granted under Section 2, and any rights granted under a separate written agreement, no license to our intellectual property is granted by these Terms.

You own your data. As between you and Telekinesis, you retain all rights in the code, robot telemetry, Skill configurations, and other content you create, generate, or process using our software. We do not claim ownership of it, we do not sell it, and, as stated in our Privacy Policy, we do not use it to train AI or machine-learning models.

AI-generated content. Where you provide a prompt or other input ("Input") to Tzara or another Telekinesis AI-based tool and receive generated code or other output in return ("Output," together with Input, "AI Content"), please be aware that such AI Content may not be protectable by copyright or other intellectual property rights under applicable law, and that another user providing similar Input may receive similar or even identical Output. You remain solely responsible for reviewing, testing, and validating any AI Content before relying on it or deploying it to control physical hardware, consistent with the human sign-off principle described in our documentation.

6. Third-party content, links, and components

The Website and our documentation may link to third-party sites, repositories, and services we do not control (including GitHub, Discord, and social platforms). We are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices, and these Terms do not apply to them. Please review those third parties' own terms and privacy policies before use.

Using Telekinesis software or the platform may also require certain third-party components (including open-source components, robot operating system stacks, simulation tools, or hardware drivers) that are not developed by us. Those components are subject to their own separate license terms, and some may involve additional costs charged directly by their respective providers. We are not responsible for the terms, availability, or pricing of such third-party components.

7. Warranty (Gewährleistung) and disclaimer

The Website, our documentation, and any open-source software we publish are provided free of charge and "as is." To the extent permitted by mandatory German law, we do not warrant that the Website or open-source software will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that defects will be corrected, and we disclaim implied warranties to the fullest extent the law allows.

This section does not limit any statutory warranty rights (Gewährleistungsrechte, §§ 434 ff., 633 ff. BGB) that apply to any paid product, service, or subscription you separately purchase from us under a distinct agreement. Those rights, and any additional warranty terms, are set out in that agreement.

Beta and preview features. From time to time we may label certain Skills, SDK features, or platform functionality as "beta," "preview," or "experimental." Such features are provided for early access and evaluation purposes, may be incomplete, may change or be discontinued at any time without notice, and are provided with an even higher degree of "as is" risk than our generally available offerings. We recommend against relying on beta or preview features for production use on physical hardware without your own independent validation.

If you are a Consumer, this section applies only to the extent mandatory law allows, and does not affect the liability provisions preserved in Section 8.

8. Limitation of liability

Unlike a liability cap denominated in a fixed low amount, German law (§§ 307–309 BGB) does not permit standard terms to broadly exclude or trivially cap liability, particularly for breaches of material contractual obligations. Our liability is therefore limited as follows:

Unlimited liability. We are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health caused by us, our legal representatives, or our vicarious agents; for damages caused by intent or gross negligence; and for any liability arising under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) or other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under mandatory law.

Liability for slight negligence. For damages caused by slight (ordinary) negligence, we are liable only if we, our legal representatives, or our vicarious agents breach a material contractual obligation (Kardinalpflicht) — an obligation whose fulfilment is essential to enable the proper performance of the contract in the first place, and on whose compliance you may regularly rely. In such cases, our liability is limited to the damage that is typical and foreseeable for this type of website, documentation, and open-source software offering at the time the relevant use began.

No liability beyond this for slight negligence. We are not liable for slight negligence outside the cases described above, including for indirect or consequential damages, loss of profit, loss of data, or loss of goodwill, to the extent permitted by law.

Business users. If you are a Business user, and to the extent legally permissible, you agree to indemnify us against third-party claims, liabilities, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your unlawful use of the Website in breach of Section 3 or 4. This indemnity does not apply to Consumers and does not extend to claims arising from our own breach of these Terms or of mandatory law.

Limitation period for Business users. If you are a Business user, any claim you may have against us arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Website becomes time-barred one (1) year after the claim arose, except for claims arising from intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body, or health, fraud, an express guarantee, or product liability, and except where mandatory statutory limitation periods apply instead. This shortened limitation period does not apply to Consumers, whose claims remain subject to the ordinary statutory limitation periods.

Nothing in this Section 8 excludes or limits liability that cannot be limited under mandatory law, and it does not affect your statutory rights as a Consumer.

9. Privacy, security, and data regulation

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

Data generated through your use of Telekinesis software (for example, robot telemetry or Skill execution logs) may also be subject to applicable data regulation beyond data protection law, including the EU Data Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/2854) where it applies to connected products and related services. Where this becomes relevant to a specific product or paid offering, we will publish or provide the applicable data access and use terms separately.

To report a security vulnerability or privacy concern, contact suman.pal@telekinesis.ai. Please report vulnerabilities to us directly and confidentially rather than disclosing them publicly, so we can investigate and respond before any public disclosure.

10. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the Website, our software, or applicable law. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page and publish the updated Terms here.

Updates that do not materially affect your rights or obligations take effect when published. If a change is material, we will give reasonable prior notice — by posting a notice on the Website or, if you hold an account with us, by email — and the change will take effect only after that notice period, and only for use going forward. If you do not accept a material change, your remedy is to stop using the Website before the change takes effect and, where applicable, to close your account. We may make a change effective immediately where reasonably necessary for legal, security, or abuse-prevention reasons.

We may interrupt operation of the Website, in whole or in part, for routine or non-routine maintenance, error correction, or other changes. Except to the extent liability cannot be excluded under mandatory law, we are not liable for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Website.

Force majeure. We are not liable for any delay or failure to operate the Website caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including strikes, war, riot, natural disaster, internet or power outages, or failures of third-party infrastructure or hosting providers, for as long as such circumstances persist.

11. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

If you are a Business user (a merchant, Kaufmann, within the meaning of the German Commercial Code, or a legal entity under public law), the exclusive place of jurisdiction for any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms is Darmstadt, Germany, to the extent legally permissible.

If you are a Consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence or the courts of Darmstadt, Germany, and this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the law of the EU country in which you are resident, under Art. 6 of the Rome I Regulation.

Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution, available at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged, and do not currently commit, to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle) within the meaning of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (VSBG), and generally do not take part in such proceedings.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder continues in effect, and the invalid provision will be replaced by a valid provision that comes closest to the parties' original economic intent, to the extent permitted by law.

12. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Website or your account if you violate these Terms or any applicable law, if we reasonably need to for legal, security, or abuse-prevention reasons, or if we discontinue the Website or the relevant part of it. Where you hold an account with us and the reason for termination is not urgent, we will give you reasonable advance notice. This section does not affect any termination rights set out in a separate written agreement (for example, governing a paid subscription).

13. Notice

You agree that we may provide notices to you, and other information concerning the Website, electronically, including to any email address you have supplied to us.

14. Age of users

Our services are not directed at, and are not intended for use by, children under 16 years of age. This reflects the age at which German and EU law (Art. 8 GDPR) generally permits a minor to consent to data processing without parental involvement. If you are between 16 and 18 years old, you may use the Website only to the extent permitted by your own legal capacity under German law (§§ 104 ff. BGB), and, for anything requiring a binding declaration (such as creating an account or a paid subscription), only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided personal information to us without the required consent, we will take reasonable steps to remove that information, consistent with our Privacy Policy.

15. Miscellaneous

You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations in your use of the Website. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any separate written agreement referenced above, constitute the entire agreement between us regarding your use of the Website. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to do so later, and a waiver of one breach is not a waiver of any other or subsequent breach. Standard terms or conditions you may propose (e.g., your own company's purchasing terms) do not apply and are expressly rejected, unless we agree to them in writing.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms, privacy questions, and security reports can all be sent to: suman.pal@telekinesis.ai

Formal notices to Telekinesis should be sent to:

Telekinesis GmbH4.1.08, Neckarstraße 464283 DarmstadtGermanyEmail: suman.pal@telekinesis.ai