Verne Robotics develops AI models that enable robot arms to acquire new dexterous skills in hours rather than weeks. Its bimanual robot, Nemo3, handles dexterous manipulation tasks through rapid learning from teleoperation data and diffusion models. The company operates on a pay-per-hour model rather than requiring large capital expenditure, serving biotech, logistics, and consumer goods sectors, and automated a vial-packing task in four days for its first customer, biotech firm ABClonal. Founded in 2025 by robot-learning researchers from Columbia and Stanford, Verne was part of YC's Summer 2025 batch.
Verne Robotics
ActiveAI models that teach robots new skills in hours
Total raised
$500K
1 round
Stage
Seed
Jan 2025
Team
1-10
since 2025
Pricing
—
Founded
2025
San Francisco, United States
Agent-ready
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AI models that teach robot arms new dexterous skills in hours
Rapid skill learning from teleoperation data
Diffusion-model-based dexterous manipulation
Nemo3 bimanual robot for two-handed manipulation tasks
Drop-in automation for existing workflows
Pay-per-hour pricing instead of large capital expenditure
Coverage for biotech, logistics, and consumer-goods tasks
Fast deployment, such as automating vial packing in days
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Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Jan 2025 Seed $500K ● Y Combinator
Capital network
$500K raised ·1 backer·10 network links
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- What does Verne Robotics do?
- Verne builds AI models that teach robot arms new dexterous skills in hours instead of weeks, offering drop-in automation on a pay-per-hour model for biotech, logistics, and consumer goods.
- How does the robot learn new skills?
- Its bimanual robot, Nemo3, learns dexterous manipulation rapidly from teleoperation data using diffusion models.
- What is the pricing model?
- Verne operates on a pay-per-hour model rather than requiring a large capital expenditure to deploy automation.
- Has it been deployed in production?
- Yes. The company automated a vial-packing task in four days for its first customer, the biotech firm ABClonal.
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