Machenta has raised a $40 million seed round co-led by Creandum and USV to develop what it calls Instant Robot Learning. The company says its robot foundation model, trained entirely in simulation with no real-world data, learns tasks from a single demonstration without further training. Demonstrated capabilities include reactive recovery from disturbances, cross-robot collaboration enabling a "one-person factory," and steerability through demonstrations. The author describes the approach as "physical vibe coding" and credits related in-context learning research at Imperial College.

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  • @BusinessInsider Business InsiderFirst reportOn X ↗

    Machenta, founded by Imperial College London researchers, raised $40 million from Union Square Ventures and Creandum to build AI that teaches robots new tasks from one demonstration. https://t.co/NE2TXLDJUG

  • @AGTPinsights AGTPOn X ↗

    Machenta just came out of stealth with a $40M seed round for robots that learn from one demo. Here's what you need to know. Machenta is a new robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London. It was founded by Edward Johns, who directs the Robot Learning Lab there, along… https://t.co/fnr88EQO9Z

  • @lukas_m_ziegler Lukas ZieglerOn X ↗

    🚨 BREAKING:@Machenta_ just raised $40M in seed funding, the largest robotics seed round ever raised in the UK. 🇬🇧 Founded by @Ed__Johns, @vitalisvos19 and the team that spent years developing this concept at Imperial College London. The round was co-led by @creandum and…

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  • @SebJohnsonUK Seb JohnsonOn X ↗

    A new AI lab has just emerged from London and it has raised a $40m seed. It is the largest ever robotics seed in the UK and the company has built a foundational model designed to achieve instant learning. i.e. show a robot something ONCE and it will learn how to do it. It was…

  • @andreasklinger Andreas Klinger 🦾On X ↗

    London has a new Physical AI Lab. 🔥🇬🇧🇪🇺 And they have a legit claim to be soon a world leading one. What MACHENTA does is close to heretical. It's a completely different approach to building models, that doesn't require massive amounts of data, nor post-training, but can…

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