Mecka raises $60M to teach robots what the internet never recorded

Mecka raised a $60 million Series B on October 7th, backing Josh Gao's bet that robots need to learn from recorded human activity, not just from people operating robots by remote control. The round, led by Sequoia Capital with NVIDIA, Microsoft's M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung among the investors, lands as robotics companies build dedicated facilities and recording operations to fill a gap that web-scraping never could.