Mimetic
Machines

Our Mission

Mimetic Machines is a data lab modeling embodied intelligence.

We’re engineers and researchers from Technical University of Munich, CDTM, Stanford and Berkeley. We have shipped AI into some of the largest companies in Europe, built robotics and machine learning systems at Amazon, Google and BMW.

Every intelligence humans have built learned from a record. Language models had the written internet, centuries of it. Physical skill was never written down because it never needed to be: you learned it by standing next to someone who had it. That worked for ten thousand years, but it does not work for a machine. Human skill is the largest body of knowledge never written down. It lives in hands: how a tailor judges tension in a seam, how an electrician feels a connector seat, how a cook moves without looking. That is why machines can write poetry and pass the bar exam but cannot fold a shirt.

René Girard spent a career showing how much of human behavior runs on imitation, and it is also, exactly, how a machine acquires a physical skill from a person. We believe that is the shortest path to machines that are useful in the world of objects.

Get in touch

If you’re training or deploying embodied models, email team@mimeticmachines.com and we’ll send you a sample set plus access to our deployment dashboard.