When @elvisnavah said, ‘the only way the research could even be done was the company,’ we knew we had to talk.

Thank you to our incredible team, investors, and partners! Onwards and upwards.

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At mimic, we build physical AI models that learn directly from people. Through proprietary data collection methods, we overcome the critical data scarcity challenge in robotics. This round will accelerate the development of our AI foundation models and humanoid robot hands.

Today, we’re excited to announce our $16M seed funding round, accelerating our mission to deploy frontier physical AI across industries. Led by @Elaia_Partners alongside @speedinvest, with participation from Founderful, 1st Kind, 10x Founders, 2100 Ventures, Sequoia Scout Fund.

Presenting mimic-one at the #CoRL2025 Dexterous Manipulation workshop was a blast! Thanks to all co-authors and @mimicrobotics team members! @erikbauerr @katzschmann

@mimicrobotics is going to be in Seoul for CoRL and Humanoids! 🦾 🇰🇷 We’re also hosting an exclusive mimic apéro in Seoul on 30th September - a chance to step away from the conference floor and continue conversations about cutting-edge robotics & AI in a more relaxed setting.

How can we leverage the wealth of cross-embodiment robot data to efficiently train policies that natively support highly dexterous hands? Erik worked on this exact question during his time at mimic. Check out the paper:

mimic x manufacturing We are proud to be working with established partners in the manufacturing space to automate complex assembly tasks. We believe that by pioneering state of the art dexterity, we in turn unlock new possibilities in scalable learning directly from human demos.

mimic builds on top of years of research in end-to-end models for dexterous manipulation. Today, we’re proud to publish mimic-one, outlining the foundations of our autonomous stack. Check out the paper:

The @mimicrobotics hackathon was so fun, we even had a small bi-manual demo sneak peek 👀

The Zurich Builds x @mimicrobotics x @loki_robotics x @OpenAI is ongoing! Looking forward to some insane demos! @arnie_hacker @elvisnavah @giffmana @generalcatalyst @PrimeIntellect

We cooked🇨🇭🧀 Our exceptional builders will be judged by exceptional researchers. This weekend in Zurich @mapo1 @katzschmann @giffmana @elvisnavah @arbwes @rold_si @mimicrobotics @loki_robotics @OpenAI Shoutout to @PrimeIntellect & @generalcatalyst for supporting

Super excited to have @generalcatalyst support us with the upcoming @mimicrobotics x @loki_robotics x @OpenAI Robotics Hack🇨🇭 They've backed many of the strongest European AI companies like @MistralAI, @bfl_ml, EthonAI, @langdock_hq and @langfuse Next weekend in Zurich :)

You're in Zurich or its zone of influence (Lausanne, Paris, BXL, Munich, London, ...) and like AI + Robots? We (@openai) together with @mimicrobotics, @lokirobotics, and Zurich Builds are organizing a hackathon from Fri 9 May afternoon to Sun 11. Limited spots, more below:

Applications open now - we are looking for exceptional hackers.

To push the ecosystem forwards, together with our friends over at @OpenAI (@giffmana, @__kolesnikov__ and @XiaohuaZhai), @loki_robotics and Zurich Builds (@arnie_hacker, @rold_si and Pascal), we are organizing a Hackathon to foster the next generation of builders.

We are organizing a Hackathon together with @OpenAI 👾 Switzerland has the highest talent density of robotics & AI talent in the world. We at mimic robotics believe that the next generation of category-defining companies will come from here.

Check out @arnie_hacker's podcast interview of our co-founder and CTO @elvisnavah!