Mistral boss and Yann LeCun back Swiss robotics startup Enact in $30M pre-seed round

Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence has today emerged out of stealth, with a $30m pre-seed round and backing from two heavyweights from the French AI ecosystem, Mistral boss Arthur Mensch and Meta's former AI chief scientist Yann LeCun. The $30m funding is high for a pre-seed funding round and comes as investors continue to invest heavily in robotics. Enact is building the underlying technology for general purpose robots. It says it’s developing tech that enables robots to manipulate objects with greater accuracy by sensing force and touch, as it looks to make robots carry out work in industrial settings and in the real world. Its approach is different to those robotics companies which rely on cameras and visuals. Manuel Yves Gallier, its CEO and co-founder, who previously worked at the hot US robotics startup Physical Intelligence, said: “In particular, our robots sense force and touch through their own actuators, so they feel what’s happening in real time, and learn more data-e