London robotics startup Machenta raises $40M seed investment

A London robotics startup co-founded by a robotics professor and his student, which is building an AI model which claims to have discovered a new, quick way of teaching robots physical jobs, has raised a record $40m seed round, it said today. Emerging out of stealth today, startup Machenta says the seed funding round, co-led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures, is the largest seed round raised by a robotics company in the UK to date. The startup was co-founded by Edward Johns, a professor of r