GenRobot AI discloses $100 million round to collect robot training data
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Published in SI: . Updated: .
Robotics investors are backing not only machines but also recordings of human actions, which models need to learn ordinary real-world work.
According to TechNode, the Series A+ round closed in the third quarter and was disclosed on November 2. Strategic investors included SAIC Motor, Baidu, Eastworlds, Shoucheng Holdings and Galaxy General Robotics, with GL Ventures, CITIC Goldstone, CCB International and Huatai Zijin providing the financial tranche. The Beijing company makes equipment that records video and people's hand and body movements during household, manufacturing and logistics tasks. Its Matrix platform synchronizes, cleans and labels the recordings for robot training and evaluation. GenRobot says it holds more than one million hours of data and works with over 30 SI companies; its open 13,000-hour dataset receives more than one million downloads per month.
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