The founding team also includes former Facebook AI Research director Lior Wolf and current Mobileye CTO Shai Shalev-Shwartz. So far, the firm has raised $17 million, led by Ahren Innovation Capital. Mentee Robotics is targeting both the industrial and home markets, with a production-ready prototype expected to be released in early 2025.
Key takeaways:
- Mentee Robotics, an Israeli firm co-founded by Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye and AI21 Labs, has revealed a prototype of its humanoid robot, Menteebot.
- The robot, which is still in its early stages, uses computer vision and generative AI, and is designed to perform household tasks and learn through imitation.
- The founding team includes former Facebook AI Research director Lior Wolf and Shai Shalev-Shwartz, a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and current Mobileye CTO. The firm has raised $17 million so far, led by Ahren Innovation Capital.
- Mentee Robotics is targeting both the industrial and home markets, and plans to release a production-ready prototype of the Menteebot in 2025.