Imperial AI spinout Machenta raises $40 million to make robots instant learners
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Machenta, an AI spinout from Imperial College London, has raised $40 million in seed funding to develop a new type of robot foundation model that allows robots to learn new tasks instantly from a single demonstration. The company's technology, based on simulated data pre-training, aims to make robot learning more scalable and reduce dependency on human data.
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Machenta, an AI spinout from Imperial College London, has raised $40 million in seed funding to develop a new type of robot foundation model that allows robots to learn new tasks instantly from a single demonstration. The company's technology, based on simulated data pre-training, aims to make robot learning more scalable and reduce dependency on human data.
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