Microagi
Coverage of Microagi in the Nexus archive.
- A Red Bull engineer got bored with Formula One. His robotics startup just raised $55 million.
A former Red Bull Racing engineer founded microagi, a Munich-based robotics startup that raised $55 million to train robots for manufacturing tasks. The company uses worker-recorded data to teach robots and operates a consumer arm called shift, which pays people to document tasks robots might perform.
- AI startup offers free home cleaning to train robots
An AI startup called Shift is offering free home cleaning in New York City in exchange for customers allowing the company to record their dirty apartments to train robots. Shift, an offshoot of Germany-based Microagi, uses anonymized data collected from these recordings, which is sold to AI labs and used for internal research. The company aims to expand services and cities beyond the initial launch.
- Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training
MicroAGI, a German startup, offers free home cleaning in New York City through its Shift app, using professional cleaners wearing cameras to record data for training AI-driven robots. The service requires users to provide contact and access details for a two-hour appointment.