Eric Rosen hypes Machenta's one-demo robot learning, built on InstantPolicy and DINOBot
Ed__Johns · x · 2026-10-27
Eric Rosen praised Ed Johns and co.'s few-shot manipulation learning work — especially InstantPolicy and DINOBot — as Machenta exits stealth with a $40m seed round. The startup's robot foundation model learns tasks from a single demonstration, trained entirely in simulation with no real-world pixels.
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