🚨 BREAKING: @Machenta_ just raised $40M in seed funding, the largest robotics seed round ever raised in the UK. 🇬🇧 Founded by @Ed__Johns, @vitalisvos19 and the team that spent years developing this concept at Imperial College London. The round was co-led by @creandum and @usv, and many other amazing parties The technology they’re launching is called Instant Robot Learning. A robot foundation model trained entirely in simulation. Zero real-world training data required. Teach a robot a new manipulation task in a minute. Not hours. Not days. One minute! 🤯 The robot in the demo needs to pass a shoe between its hands twice to flip it the right way around, a creative, multi-step manipulation sequence. The team didn’t pre-program it. They just tried things out until it worked. Ed describes it as “physical vibe coding.” It signals something genuinely new about the development experience. When teaching a robot takes minutes instead of weeks, you can iterate, experiment and get creative with behaviours the way a software engineer iterates on code.  The barrier between idea and physical execution collapses drastically. The underlying insight is powerful. If you can generate enough high-quality simulation data and close the sim-to-real gap tightly enough, you never need to touch real hardware during training at all. Every robot deployment starts from the same foundation. Every new task is a prompt, not a project. Imperial College London research. $40M seed. UK record. The British are very much in the robot learning race. 🇬🇧 Proud to back another outstanding physical AI company as an angel investor among so many awesome investors! 😇 🔗 Learn more about it in their blog: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →