Humanola Raises $2.5M Seed to Advance Teleoperation and AI Robotics Platform

<p>Humanola, a San Francisco-based robotics technology startup with roots in Uzbekistan, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding as it develops a platform for remote control of humanoid robots and physical AI data infrastructure.</p><p>Founded by Sanjar Atamuradov, Akbar Erkinov and Zhaoyuan Gu, Humanola is building a hardware-agnostic teleoperation and data platform that allows operators to control robots from anywhere in the world with ultra-low latency while collecting high-quality physical interaction data for training machine learning models.</p><h2>Investment Backers</h2><p>The $2.5 million seed round was backed by Link Ventures, Bad Ideas Fund, Georgia Tech Fund, and entrepreneur Akmal Payziyev, founder of Express24 and Numeo AI. These investors bring strategic insight, technology sector experience and global networks.</p><h2>Technical Approach</h2><p>The platform combines real-time telepresence, automated dataset generation and infrastructure for processing and labeling physical robotics data. This data-centric approach aims to accelerate development of robust robotic intelligence by circumventing fragmented data pipelines.</p><p>Humanola plans to use the funding to expand engineering and product teams, enhance teleoperation infrastructure performance, and broaden business development efforts with robotics integrators and OEMs building humanoid and industrial robots.</p>