A Kiwi entrepreneur is working to tackle a major bottleneck in robotics - testing artificial intelligence in the physical world.
Former Tesla engineer and Stanford University graduate Harry Mellsop has built a software programme called Antioch that lets companies building robots test them in real world scenarios.
Barring a few multinational companies like Meta and Tesla that have their own technology to run simulations - most manufacturers modelling new robotics need to hire out real world places to test technologies.
This might look like company testing its automatic tractor - and needing a real paddock to dig around in, or in many cases robot builders are hiring Air BnBs and actors to test their products.
He and fellow co-founders have just closed a pre-seed funding round of with more than 7 million raised.
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