Britain started the first industrial revolution. It is close to sitting out the next one.
This is not a capability problem. The UK has built real foundations in eighteen months: £500M for sovereign AI, £1.1bn for AI hardware, five AI Growth Zones. Compute, capital, infrastructure. Whilst all of this is necessary, none of it puts a robot to work on a production line.
That is what we build. Atlas records experienced workers on the line, multiplies their demonstrations in simulation, fine-tunes a policy for the task, and puts our engineers on the floor until the robot works in production.
microagi is launching in the UK, our first market outside Germany.
Today we hosted a roundtable in London chaired by HM Trade Commissioner for Europe Ceri Morgan CBE, with Leo Rees, Special Advisor at No.10 and Isabel Webb from DBIST, as well as leaders from AI research labs and industry, including Markus Gruneisl at BMW.
Three takeaways from our roundtable: the necessity for collaboration, because no single sector gets there alone; speed, because every deployment compounds; and sovereignty, because the data generated in Europe's factories should stay where it belongs.
The next 18 months decide whether the UK leapfrogs or drifts. If you run an industrial company in the UK: talk to us.
We are hiring for our London office.
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Asking out loud is the fastest way to get almost anything done. Even if you're asking a robot.
This early case study from @microagi showcases how they're using ElevenLabs to explore what working alongside a humanoid robot looks like when you can simply talk to it.
microagi x ElevenLabs: what happens when you work together with a robot?
Language has always been at the heart of human connection. It's how we share ideas, build communities, and understand one another. We believe this will be just as important in how we connect with robots. At microagi, we envision a world where robots work alongside us as a normal part of everyday life, where asking one for help feels as natural as asking the person beside us.
For that to happen, we need to be able to speak to them directly, without a screen or control panel, and trust that we have been understood.
With ElevenLabs, we are working to make those conversations possible. We are giving our robots a voice, and shaping how they listen and respond to the people around them.
Here’s an early look at how future robots could talk with us.
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A glimpse into the future
microagi x ElevenLabs: what happens when you work together with a robot?
Language has always been at the heart of human connection. It's how we share ideas, build communities, and understand one another. We believe this will be just as important in how we connect with robots. At microagi, we envision a world where robots work alongside us as a normal part of everyday life, where asking one for help feels as natural as asking the person beside us.
For that to happen, we need to be able to speak to them directly, without a screen or control panel, and trust that we have been understood.
With ElevenLabs, we are working to make those conversations possible. We are giving our robots a voice, and shaping how they listen and respond to the people around them.
Here’s an early look at how future robots could talk with us.
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Today we're announcing microSLAM, a monocular SLAM system built by our computer vision team in Zürich with ETH Zurich's Computer Vision and Geometry Lab. It ranks first on the LaMaria benchmark for monocular SLAM, and holds up against systems that carry many more cameras and IMUs. Ours runs on a single RGB stream.
Robot learning is bottlenecked on data, and the largest untapped source is people going about their work. A camera on someone's head for an afternoon in a plant is a record of how that plant actually operates, including all the parts nobody writes down.
That data is only useful if you can recover the geometry, and geometry from one moving camera in a world that will not sit still is the hard version of the problem. Solving it monocular is what makes the data cheap. Rigs do not scale to every worker. Glasses do.
microSLAM turns that footage into interactive 3D environments where behavioral foundation models can be trained. One person walks a factory floor. A robot learns to navigate it.
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Just realised we added 56 new hires over the last 3 months at @microagi. Hovering around 100 now (up from five 11 months ago). Will continue at this rate for the foreseeable future ;) DM if you think you should be part of the fun.
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Britain started the first industrial revolution. It is close to sitting out the next one.
This is not a capability problem. The UK has built real foundations in eighteen months: £500M for sovereign AI, £1.1bn for AI hardware, five AI Growth Zones. Compute, capital, infrastructure. Whilst all of this is necessary, none of it puts a robot to work on a production line.
That is what we build. Atlas records experienced workers on the line, multiplies their demonstrations in simulation, fine-tunes a policy for the task, and puts our engineers on the floor until the robot works in production.
microagi is launching in the UK, our first market outside Germany.
Today we hosted a roundtable in London chaired by HM Trade Commissioner for Europe Ceri Morgan CBE, with Leo Rees, Special Advisor at No.10 and Isabel Webb from DBIST, as well as leaders from AI research labs and industry, including Markus Gruneisl at BMW.
Three takeaways from our roundtable: the necessity for collaboration, because no single sector gets there alone; speed, because every deployment compounds; and sovereignty, because the data generated in Europe's factories should stay where it belongs.
The next 18 months decide whether the UK leapfrogs or drifts. If you run an industrial company in the UK: talk to us.
We are hiring for our London office.
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Britain started the first industrial revolution. We think it should lead the next one too, so microagi is launching in London to put AI-powered robots to work on British factory floors.
We are hiring aggressively! Reach out via dm's
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If you are in AI space lets grab some drinks together luma.com/wzgreunl
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Munich-based AI robotics startup @microagi is partnering with Google Cloud & @nvidia to build the future of embodied AI. microagi will use Google Cloud’s advanced AI stack and the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to scale its model training workloads. Discover how → goo.gle/4pBMtiF
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Excited to see microagi building the future of AI robotics in Europe with Google Cloud and NVIDIA Blackwell. 👏
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We are agressively hiring AI researchers who are keen on diffusing AI into the real world.
We've got the compute covered; you have to bring the delusional ambition.
Europe has <18 months to start buying GPUs.
Compute decides who gets to automate, reindustrialise and defend themselves.
Today we are announcing a strategic compute partnership with NVIDIA and Google Cloud.
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Europe has <18 months to start buying GPUs.
Compute decides who gets to automate, reindustrialise and defend themselves.
Today we are announcing a strategic compute partnership with NVIDIA and Google Cloud.
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Big news! Munich-based AI robotics startup @microagi is partnering with @googlecloud & @nvidia to build the future of embodied AI. @microagi will use Google Cloud’s advanced AI stack and the @nvidia Blackwell platform to scale its model training workloads. goo.gle/45lb69K
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- Google and Nvidia are striking a compute deal with @microagi, the German startup behind the viral Shift service that records apartment cleanings to train robots
- it's part of an "ecosystem play" in Europe's fast-growing robotics sector, which is quickly becoming a US-China battleground
More in @semafor:
semafor.com/article/07/21/20…
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1/ excited to announce that we're coming out of stealth and are announcing the largest seed round in German history. $55M, ten months in. led by @HummingbirdVC. Measured against the task, it is not enough. No round would be. The task is reindustrialising Europe.
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Europe invented the factory and industrialised the world twice.
Today we raised the largest seed round in German history to do it a
third time. 10 months in.
Back to work!
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microagi has raised a $55M seed led by Hummingbird with Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and redalpine, ten months after founding. Atlas trains control policies on worker demonstrations and deploys them to production - starting with the world's largest industrial companies.
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