Mimic Robotics

Mimic Robotics AG is a Zurich-based Swiss robotics and physical AI company founded in 2024 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab. The company focuses on general-purpose dexterous manipulation for industrial automation, including manufacturing, assembly, packaging, sorting, and logistics. Mimic Robotics takes a full-stack approach: proprietary tendon-driven robotic hands (Mimic Hand M1.0), wearable data-collection devices for high-fidelity human demonstration capture, and AI models including video-action foundation models trained on human video, wearable demonstrations, and robot data. The company raised $16 million in seed funding in 2025. Key people include co-founders Stefan Weirich (CEO), Elvis Nava (CTO), and Stephan-Daniel Gravert, with Prof. Robert Katzschmann as scientific advisor. The team includes talent from ETH Zurich, Google DeepMind, Tesla Optimus, MIT, and Stanford.