Today @MeckaAI is announcing $60M in funding to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI
This raise will allow us to scale our data infrastructure, invest into new verticals, and deploy robots into the real world
Excited to announce our $8M seed round led by @neo to further our work as the data layer for robotics
Heres why we bet early on human data advancing autonomous robotics:
General-purpose robots will be the largest GDP impacting technology of our lifetime with a $42T injection of productive labor through humanoids and robots of many shapes and sizes!
But robot models, among many other challenges, face a data issue
The data soup in robotics is made up of many key ingredients, including tele-op, synthetic, and internet-scale data
Across high-quality but slow teleoperation data with fast yet lower-quality synthetic simulations, we made a bet on human data, starting with egocentric videos
The naive common-sense hunch, along with wonderful research in the community, is that a humanoid and a human share a form factor
The question was whether we could transfer the knowledge from less noisy human demonstrations in a POV video to a robot at large-scale
