On May 7, 2024, the Switzerland-based AI biomimetic robotic hand startup mimic announced it has raised $2.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, with investors in this round including Foundersful, another.vc, Tiny.vc, and several angel investors.
The company plans to use the raised funds to develop a robot manipulation foundation model based on an AI model, which will drive the robotic hand to perform tasks.
mimic was founded in 2024 by ETH Zurich researchers Elvis Nava, Stefan Weirich, Stephan-Daniel Gravert, and Benedek Forrai. The company's main business is developing a biomimetic robotic hand that can understand and imitate any behavior simply by observing a human perform it. The company's solution will enable robots to perform tasks without the need for expensive and complex programming for each new task. mimic's robot is designed to imitate the human hand so that it can adapt to the human world, rather than redesigning the world to adapt to the robot.
(Source:Tech.eu）