SafeWorld
AI lab selling simulation software that tests how robots behave around people in rare and dangerous situations.
- SafeWorld leaves stealth with $12.2 million from Shine Capital and a16z speedrun to stress-test robots around people in simulation
SafeWorld said in a press release on Oct 5 that it emerged from stealth with a $12.2 million seed round co-led by Shine Capital and a16z speedrun, joined by Box Group, the Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel. Co-founded by Carnegie Mellon safe-AI professor Ding Zhao, it sells software that runs robots through thousands of simulated encounters with reactive human motion before and after deployment.
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