Founder Stories

Revolutionizing Mobile App Testing with Robots

Eden Full Goh’s journey to founding Mobot began with a moment of frustration that many product managers can relate to: staying up late doing tedious, manual quality assurance testing on mobile devices. As a former product manager who worked across the energy, healthcare, and government sectors at companies like Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network, Eden experienced firsthand how time-consuming and inefficient mobile app testing could be.

The idea for Mobot came to her in the shower one night while dreading yet another late-night QA session. She realized that there had to be a better way to test mobile applications on real devices, especially as apps become increasingly complex with push notifications, hardware integrations, and multi-device interactions. These complexities made traditional software-only testing solutions inadequate, as they couldn’t replicate the way humans actually use mobile devices.

Eden’s contrarian insight was to use physical, mechanical robots to automate the manual testing process. Starting with a modified robot originally designed to sign greeting cards, she built the first prototype of what would become Mobot’s innovative testing platform. The company now leverages an army of robots that physically test mobile applications on hundreds of real devices, catching bugs that software-only solutions miss.