Enigma raises $71M to develop foundation models for robots
Engima Ltd., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots, launched today with $71 million in funding.
Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital jointly led the seed round with participation from Conviction Partners. They were joined by a group of angel investors that included employees at Google DeepMind, Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC.
Teaching an industrial robot a new task usually requires developers to write custom code. Furthermore, the code has to be adapted to every environment in which the machine operates. Two identical robotic arms installed next to differently-sized conveyor belts require two different configuration scripts.
Equipping a robot with AI eases the programming workflow. Some neural networks, such as Nvidia Corp.’s GR00T, make it possible to configure their host machines with natural language prompts. That saves a significant amount of time for engineers.
