Dream Labs raises $90M seed to build a foundation model that controls any robot
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-10-20
Robot foundation-model startup Dream Labs landed a $90M seed round led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures — placing it in the top 1% of US enterprise software seed rounds.
- Dream-1: learns from video of people performing tasks and controls any gripper-equipped robot from different manufacturers zero-shot.
- Dream API: turns a camera feed plus a plain-English instruction into motor commands.
- Team and ecosystem: founded by ex-NVIDIA researchers, working with 20+ hardware partners on robots costing $2K–$10K.
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