Mecka raises $60 million to capture human skills for robots

Jordan Reid
October 8, 2026
Robotics, Industry
1 min

Human and robot demonstrations shown in EgoVerse research — Human and robot demonstrations from the EgoVerse research project

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Mecka announced a $60 million Series B on October 7 led by Sequoia Capital. New investors include NVIDIA, Microsoft’s M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung.

The company builds sensor hardware and records human demonstrations in homes and commercial settings. Its research systems turn those recordings into structured movement data for robot developers.

The financing will support data infrastructure, internal research and commercial robot deployment. Mecka describes a service spanning capture, training and ongoing operations, rather than a new standalone robot launch.

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Human and robot demonstrations from the EgoVerse research project. EgoMimic Team under the MIT license.

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