Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
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Mecka AI, a two-year-old company that collects human movement patterns to train humanoid robots, is close to securing approximately 500 million dollars in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
This comes just three months after the company raised 60 million dollars in a previous round. Mecka pays people to record themselves performing everyday tasks such as making coffee or repairing cars, using body sensors and smartphones — similar to how other companies have gathered human data to train AI models.
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