Machenta

Machenta is a British AI company based in the King’s Cross district of London that describes itself as a frontier AI company building a new kind of robot foundation model. Its goal is “Instant Robot Learning”: a robot that learns a new task from a single demonstration, with no further training, through in-context learning and pre-training entirely in simulation, scaled by compute. The company grew out of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London; its co-founders are Edward Johns (CEO) and Vitalis Vosylius (CTO), and the team includes authors of works such as Instant Policy (ICLR 2025) and “Learning a Thousand Tasks in a Day”, as well as researchers from DeepMind, Dyson, Huawei and Stability AI. In 2026 the company announced a USD 40M Seed round co-led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. The model has not yet been publicly released and is offered via early access.