# Robotics startup Enact Intelligence nabs $30M funding round

DevFeed: [Robotics startup Enact Intelligence nabs $30M funding round](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/robotics-startup-enact-intelligence-nabs-30m-funding-round-96300.md>)

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Author: Maria Deutscher

Published: 2026-10-22T20:31:36Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [SiliconANGLE](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/siliconangle.md>)

Topics: [Physical AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/physical-ai.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [robot sense of touch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/robot-sense-of-touch.md>), [Robot Manipulation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/robot-manipulation.md>), [AI Research](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-research.md>)

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## AI overview

Swiss startup Enact Intelligence, founded by Manuel Yves Galliker, raised $30 million in pre-seed funding from a consortium including Yann LeCun, Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf and venture firms. It is developing AI models intended to control varied robot designs, addressing the limits of models tailored to particular forms. A job posting suggests Enact plans to pre-train models from scratch, a more difficult route than adapting open-source models. The company is also building actuators that it says can sense force and touch, though it has not explained how they work. The excerpt describes Back EMF sensing as a possible clue from other projects, not a confirmed Enact method. A job posting also points to planned FPGA use for robot performance and power efficiency. Funding will support hiring and technology development.

## Source excerpt

Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence today announced that it has raised $30 million in pre-seed funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Yann LeCun, one of the world's most prominent artificial intelligence researchers. He was joined by Mistral AI SAS Chief Executive Arthur Mensch, Hugging Face Inc. co-founder Thomas Wolf and several [...] The post Robotics startup Enact Intelligence nabs $30M funding round appeared first on SiliconANGLE.