🚨 BREAKING:
@BleuRobotics01 has raised €5M pre-seed to solve the humanoid robot deployments.
Co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital, with participation from Kvanted, WEPA and Charlie Songhurst, technology investor and Meta board member, and I'm also an angel
Funny story, I found Benoît's company 3 days after he incorporated it, through French company registry last December, real angel grind haha.
Of the 20,000+ humanoids produced last year, only 10% reached real-world applications. Most robots today rely on end-to-end models that require hundreds of hours of training data and months of deployment time. For manufacturers, that’s prohibitive.
Bleu’s goal is to reduce the full humanoid deployment process to under one hour.
Instead of training on massive datasets, the model infers the most likely intent behind an operator’s demonstration, the task’s goal, its constraints, how to reproduce it reliably. A robot learns a new industrial task from as few as ten demonstrations.
→ 10 demonstrations to learn a new task
→ 99%+ accuracy required for production lines, and delivered
→ Up to 100x more data-efficient than state-of-the-art alternatives
→ Plugs into any humanoid platform
→ Operators teach tasks directly at the workstation, no coding required
→ Robot can be retrained as production needs change or moved to another site
The founding team is the right one for this problem.
Benoît Berkoukchi managed large assembly line teams at Renault. Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Serena Ivaldi are research directors at INRIA, 15 years at the frontier of AI and robotics, published in Nature, organisers of leading humanoid robotics conferences.
Industrial expertise. World-class research. And a software-first approach to a hardware-dominated industry.
First deployments already underway at major automotive manufacturers and WEPA, one of Europe’s largest hygiene paper manufacturers.
Europe is not waiting. 🇫🇷🤖
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