Physicl has raised $10 million in seed funding led by venture capital firm Inovia Capital, TechCrunch reported on Friday. The startup plans to provide simulation software and synthetic data to help builders of robots and physical artificial intelligence models train their systems.
The company is introducing a product called Studio, which contains 10,000 3D environments and 100,000 object assets. Users can design scenes to generate synthetic data for training robots on specific tasks, such as finding an object on a cluttered surface or in shadows. Founder and chief executive Alex de Vigan previously ran nfinite, an e-commerce visualization company whose rendering pipeline was adapted to model physical environments.
World model developer SpAItial used Physicl's platform as an early customer to support its Echo-3 simulation tool. Matthias Niessner, founder of SpAItial and a robotics professor at the Technical University of Munich, told the outlet that generating high-fidelity synthetic data on demand during training cycles avoids having to curate datasets by hand.
