# Midcentury: robot AI company

Canonical ID: `92d65a9c-5021-4bd7-a49a-527d50da9bb2`

## Key facts

- **Seed round:** $15M (company-announced, Sep 2026)
- **Focus:** Physical AI data + simulation infrastructure
- **Website:** [www.midcentury.xyz](https://www.midcentury.xyz/)
- **Egocentric dataset (company-claimed):** Company site claims 2M+ hours of unscripted egocentric data across 50+ environments with 3D hand pose, point tracks, depth, and task annotations (video/IMU/audio). Not independently verified.
- **Products (company-claimed, releasing soon):** MC-Motion (egocentric 3D motion reconstruction), MC-Shade (engine-agnostic photoreal rendering for sim), MC-PhysBench (long-horizon physics validity benchmark for world models). Status: releasing soon per company site.

- **Slug:** midcentury
- **Funding total (USD):** 15000000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is Midcentury?

Physical AI data and simulation company. Exited stealth in September 2026 with a $15M seed round. Claims a large labeled egocentric dataset and Matrix agentic simulation for policy evaluation and RL. Team background cited from Stanford, OpenAI, DeepMind, and NVIDIA. Dataset scale claims are company-claimed.

### What does Midcentury make?

Midcentury has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Midcentury builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

### How much funding has Midcentury raised?

Midcentury has raised approximately $15M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Is Midcentury a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Midcentury ranks in roughly the top 98% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (3)

1. https://x.com/MidcenturyAI/status/2102412610071339414
2. https://www.midcentury.xyz/
3. https://www.midcentury.xyz/datasets/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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