In detail
- The company trains AI agents in games like Fortnite (over 100 hours of continuous play) and transfers the learned behavior to physical robots.
- A quadrupedal robot required only eight minutes of real-world training data to navigate a new environment—data collected on the street, not in the office.
- Total disclosed funding now stands at $454 million (following a $134 million round in October 2025).
- CEO Pim de Witte (31) spun the company out of Medal, his existing platform for gamers to upload and share video clips.
Why it matters
For German mid-market companies in robotics or automation, this demonstrates a new training paradigm: simulations and games could reduce development costs and improve generalization. The valuation signals that investors view this approach as a breakthrough.
For you Watch whether this approach scales to specialized industrial robotics—it could make your automation projects cheaper and faster.