# Mimic Robotics: robotics company

Canonical ID: `087caa65-54a9-4f1a-b600-50a688f6535d`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Stefan Weirich (co-founder & CEO)
- **CTO:** Elvis Nava (co-founder & CTO)
- **CPO:** Stephan-Daniel Gravert (co-founder & CPO)
- **Co-founders:** Elvis Nava, Stefan Weirich, Stephan-Daniel Gravert, Benedek Forrai — ETH Zurich spinoff (2024)
- **Legal name:** mimic robotics AG
- **HQ:** Zurich, Switzerland (also San Francisco, CA)
- **Origin:** ETH Zurich spinoff (2024)
- **Team:** Talent from Google DeepMind, Tesla Optimus, ETH Zurich, MIT, Stanford
- **Business model:** Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) subscription + outright purchase with SLA
- **Funding:** $25.9M total ($2.5M pre-seed May 2024 + $16M seed Nov 2025 + grants)
- **Financial stage:** Early — seed stage, pilot deployments with Fortune 500 manufacturers
- **Product:** Mimic Hand M1 (tendon-driven robotic hand, 15 DOF, 21 joints) + Mimic Wearable U1 (exoskeleton data collection)

- **Slug:** mimic-robotics
- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Funding total (USD):** 25900000

## Models

- [Mimic Hand](/models/mimic-hand.md) (other) (id: `68219ad7-f4d9-4c85-9562-485ea00263d8`)

## Current leadership (3)

- [Stefan Weirich](/people/stefan-weirich.md) Co-founder & CEO (SEC-verified)
- [Elvis Nava](/people/elvis-nava.md) Co-founder & CTO (SEC-verified)
- [Stephan-Daniel Gravert](/people/stephan-daniel-gravert.md) Co-founder & CPO (SEC-verified)

## Founders (3)

- [Stefan Weirich](/people/stefan-weirich.md) (cofounder)
- [Elvis Nava](/people/elvis-nava.md) (cofounder)
- [Stephan-Daniel Gravert](/people/stephan-daniel-gravert.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Mimic Robotics?

ETH Zurich spinoff building full-stack physical AI for general-purpose dexterous manipulation. Mimic Robotics develops the [Mimic Hand M1](/models/mimic-hand), a tendon-driven robotic hand with 15 actuated DOF and 21 joints designed for industrial automation, paired with the Mimic Wearable U1 exoskeleton for data collection. The company focuses on dexterous hands rather than full humanoid robots, pairing its AI-driven hands with off-the-shelf industrial robot arms for deployment in manufacturing, logistics, and retail.

### What does Mimic Robotics make?

Mimic Robotics has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Mimic Hand (Mimic Robotics builds physical robots).

### Where is Mimic Robotics headquartered?

Mimic Robotics is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

### How much funding has Mimic Robotics raised?

Mimic Robotics has raised approximately $26M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Mimic Robotics operate robots?

Mimic Robotics is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Mimic Robotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Mimic Robotics ranks in roughly the top 24% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Mimic Robotics founded?

Mimic Robotics was founded in 2024.


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