The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Mimic Robotics: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $18.5M raised. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Mimic Robotics is a Swiss company developing highly backdrivable, tendon-driven robotic hands for industrial automation. Products include M1 hand (15 active DOF, 25kg payload, <0.05 Nm backdrive) and U1 wearable Exoskeleton for human demonstrations. Full in-house software stack. Core bet: keeping morphology constant across learning pipeline — no cross-embodiment gap. Data pyramid: video (base) → wearable (middle) → robot teleoperation (top).
Reality check
M1 hand (company-claimed)
Tendon-driven, 15 DOF and 21 joints, forearm actuators; 25 kg grasp payload.
M1 sensing (company-claimed)
25 N fingertip force, under 0.1 N sensitivity, plus or minus 0.18 mm fingertip accuracy.
U1 wearable (company-claimed)
Exoskeleton matching M1 kinematics with tactile sensors, encoders and wrist cameras.
Approach (company-claimed)
Same hand shape for human demos and robot, avoiding a cross-embodiment gap.
Business (company-claimed)
RaaS subscription or purchase with SLA; pilots with Fortune 500 manufacturers.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
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Key facts
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Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Mimic Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Mimic Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Mimic Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Stefan Weirich Co-founder & CEOSEC-verified
- Elvis Nava Co-founder & CTOSEC-verified
- Stephan-Daniel Gravert Co-founder & CPOSEC-verified
Founders (3)
- Stefan Weirichcofounder
- Elvis Navacofounder
- Stephan-Daniel Gravertcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Mimic Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Mimic Robotics2 deployments
Recent coverage
Mimic Robotics in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Mimic Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (4)
Registry pages whose text names Mimic Robotics.
Robots and products (1)
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $18.5M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
Mimic Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $19M in total, oldest to newest.
- Seed2025-11-03
$16M · $64M post
Investors: Elaia Partners (lead), Speedinvest (lead), Founderful, 1st Kind, 10x Founders, 2100 Ventures, Sequoia Scout Fund
- Pre-Seed2024-05-08
$3M · $8M post
Investors: Founderful (lead), another.vc, Tiny.vc
Timeline
Every recorded move in Mimic Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-11-03Seed raising $16000000
Funding roundPre-Seed funding round
2024-05-08Pre-Seed raising $2500000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 18, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Mimic Hand at Switzerland, Europe
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Mimic Hand at United States (multiple hotel chains)
Sources (1)
- SiliconANGLE · https://siliconangle.com
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 1
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The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Mimic Robotics.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Mimic Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Solving Dexterity: A Full-Stack Approach — M1 hand and U1 wearable
M1 hand: 15 DOF, tendon-driven, 25kg payload, <0.05 Nm backdrive. U1 wearable matches M1 kinematics. Data pyramid: video → wearable → teleoperation. No cross-embodiment gap.
mimic Robotics unveils full-stack platform for dexterous robot manipulation
mimic Robotics has introduced a new robotic hand, wearable exoskeleton and software platform that it says are designed to advance general-purpose dexterous manipulation for…
mimic robotics Goes Full-Stack at the Frontier of Physical AI
Mimic Robotics unveiled the Mimic Hand M1, the first robotic hand purpose-built for industrial automation, and the Mimic Wearable U1 exoskeleton for data collection. The…
Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands
Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics raised $16M in seed funding from Elaia and Speedinvest to enable robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks. The company's hands…
USD 16 million for Mimic Robotics to bring physical AI to industry
Swiss robotics startup Mimic raised $16M to deploy AI-powered dexterous robotic hands in industrial settings, addressing labor shortages in manufacturing and logistics.
ETH robotics spinout Mimic raises $16m seed led by Elaia and Speedinvest
Zurich-based Mimic Robotics raised a $16M seed round led by Elaia and Speedinvest, with participation from Founderful, 1st Kind, 10X Founders, 2100 Ventures and Sequoia Scout.…
ETH spinoff mimic robotics banks $2.5M to develop the first AI-driven collaborative robot
ETH Zurich spinoff Mimic Robotics raised $2.5M in pre-seed funding led by Founderful, with another.vc, Tiny.vc, and angel investors. The startup builds AI-powered humanoid robotic…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/mimic-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/mimic-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/087caa65-54a9-4f1a-b600-50a688f6535d
- Revision history: /companies/mimic-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DJI9 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Orbbec6 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
Video
#humanoidrobot #robot #usa German automotive giant Audi has announced a strategic collaboration with Mimic Robotics, a Zurich-based startup specializing in dex
Meet the mimic hand M1: the first robotic hand purpose-built for industrial automation. Strong enough to hold a 25 kg payload, sensitive enough to feel a 50 g w
The mimic wearable U1 ("umimic") is a passive exoskeleton for collecting post-training demonstration data without a robot in the loop. The U1 matches the mimic
We introduce mimic-video, a new class of Video-Action Model (VAM) that grounds robotic policies in pretrained video models. Unlike standard VLAs that must learn
Mimic builds frontier physical AI models trained on real-world human demonstrations, using innovative methods to overcome the data scarcity problem in robotics.
Elvis Nava is an ML expert and Co-Founder and CTO of Mimic Robotics, an ETH Zurich spin-off creating advanced humanoid hands and AI for dexterous manipulation t
Mimic Robotics: Scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manu
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Mimic Robotics draws attention at the 74th percentile but verifies reality at the 36th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +38.1, 51st widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Funded with institutional backing on record. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Oct 18, 2026