mimic 🇨🇭 Hiring · 1 open role ↗
Robotics using video-action models for general-purpose dexterous manipulation, letting robots learn complex tasks in unstructured environments.
About mimic
The company develops advanced robotics solutions that utilize video-action models to enable robots to autonomously learn and perform complex dexterous tasks across various unstructured environments, such as manufacturing and logistics. Their technology leverages large-scale video pre-training and dynamic representations to facilitate general-purpose manipulation with minimal fine-tuning.
mimic is a Switzerland-based company founded in 2023, now around 83 people. It has raised $18.5M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as DeepTech & Space.
Founded by Robert Katzschmann (Co-founder and Scientific Advisor; previously ABB, Amazon Global Robotics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Benedek Forrai (Co-Founder and Lead Roboticist; previously ABB; ETH Zurich), Stephan-Daniel Gravert (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer; previously AUDI AG, Brainlab; Technical University of Munich), Elvis Nava (Co-Founder & CEO; previously ETHZ, Oracle; ETH Zurich), Stefan Weirich (Co-Founder & CBO; repeat founder; previously BUDDI - Multi Toy, Bosch; RWTH Aachen University).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Seed · Fintech (111 funds), Seed · Generalist (110 funds), Seed · AI (93 funds).
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