Paris-based Bleu Robotics raised €5M pre-seed co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital to get humanoids running in factories in under an hour.

The Paris startup, an Inria HuCeBot spinout founded by ex-Renault manufacturing manager Benoît Berkoukchi with researchers Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Serena Ivaldi, builds only software—no hardware. Its "abductive learning" model teaches a robot a factory task from about ten operator demonstrations, deploying in under an hour on any ROS-connected robot. Bleu_0.1 reportedly hit 98% on the ManiSkill3 StackCube benchmark, trained in under two minutes on a laptop. Pre-commercial, it is testing with two unnamed automotive and consumer-goods manufacturers, planning a monthly subscription model sold via robot makers and integrators.

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