Let’s get physical! Ropedia is a Singapore-founded startup that gives robotics and embodied AI systems structured records of real human experience for training and simulation. 

• And now, they’ve just raised a $22M Pre-Series A, bringing their total funding to $30M!
• The core team is from Tsinghua, NTU, MMLab, Meta Reality Labs, and Google.

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Investor check. The round was led by leading venture investors with experience in AI, deeptech, and infrastructure in SEA.

• A previous round involved investors and angels connected to Google, a16z, NVIDIA, and Amazon.

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👑 The ABCs of Ropedia

Ropedia offers end-to-end data infrastructure for physical AI — from capturing human experience data to delivering model-ready datasets and deployment systems.

Their core offerings include:

• Dataset licensing. Providing model-ready datasets (like Xperience-10M, captured via their HOMIE head-mounted hardware) to robotics, embodied AI, and world-model teams for training.
• Annotation infrastructure deployment. Remote or on-premise deployment of multimodal annotation workflows.
• Selective hardware access. Granting research institutions and enterprise partners targeted access to HOMIE hardware.
• Research collaborations. Partnering with academic and industrial leaders to push physical AI capabilities forward.

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Run the numbers! According to a statement, Ropedia’s work had over 2.6M open-source downloads, over 69K research citations, and more than 40 frontier AI lab engagements. 

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🔼 What’s with the $$$? 

They’ll use the capital to expand global data collection into SEA and North America. 

• They’ll also grow their Singapore and US teams, boost their manufacturing capacity, expand global data collection operations, and scale their data platform to deliver larger, more diverse datasets.

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Big plans ahead. They’ll further develop their data platform to add annotation tooling, analytics, and compliance infrastructure. 

• Oh, and they’ll build on their AI team’s work on data foundation and world models.