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Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
Publisher description: Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
TechCrunch | Nov 6, 2026 | Tim Fernholz
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Founder and CEO de Vigan spent the last decade building nfinite, which made it easy for brands and retailers to create 3D models of their goods and display them online. Researchers developing physical AI models to make robots more capable of tasks like handling diverse, small objects have been frustrated by the returns of training them on video, and the expense of gathering data through remote operations. It lets users create scenes to generate synthetic data for training robots on specific problems.
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