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This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans


MicroFactory has more than 100 preorders for its general purpose tabletop robotic factory which it hopes to start shipping in two months.

Rather than selling individual robotic arms, MicroFactory’s system comes as an enclosed but transparent workstation, allowing users to watch the manufacturing process in real time. Users can train the robots by physically guiding the arms through complex motions — a hands-on approach that Kulakov says works faster than traditional AI programming for intricate manufacturing sequences. MicroFactory just raised a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round that included investors like executives from the AI company Hugging Face and investor-entrepreneur Naval Ravikant.

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