Robotics startup Genesis AI has emerged from stealth mode with $105 million in seed funding to create a general-purpose artificial intelligence model for robots.
The company aims to automate repetitive tasks by training AI models with data about the physical world, using a proprietary simulation engine to generate synthetic data.
Funding for Genesis AI was co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with a focus on developing robotics foundation models that can generalize across tasks.
Amazon also made strides in robotics with over 1 million robots in its warehouses, unveiling Vulcan, a robot with a sense of touch for product retrieval, and integrating robots into fulfillment operations.