Enigma Raises $71 Million Seed, Opens 100-Plus AI Robots to Online Human-Interaction Test
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 27
Enigma Raises $71 Million Seed, Opens 100-Plus AI Robots to Online Human-Interaction Test
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 27
Summary
$71 million in seed funding will back Enigma’s public experiment, which lets people worldwide interact online with more than 100 proprietary AI robots housed in Israel and California.
Enigma is testing how humans prefer to direct robots—through text, audio, video examples, or drag-and-drop controls—to find a more intuitive interface and improve training for its foundation model.
The less-than-one-year-old startup says it built both the robotic arms and underlying models from scratch; the machines can paint, sword-fight, and run simple chemistry tasks.
Co-founders Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, both veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200, are positioning Enigma against rivals that focus more narrowly on robot capabilities rather than the user experience.
Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital led the round, and while Enigma is already working with healthcare, logistics, and entertainment companies, it has not yet disclosed a clear commercial use case.