Nimble’s robots develop new skills from observing actions performed by another agent, known as deep imitation learning. The company currently has robots within several Fortune 500 fulfillment centers, picking over 100,000 items per day. Kalouche explained that Nimble supplies its customers with robots that can intelligently pick, pack and handle products within a fulfillment center, handling goods from apparel and electronics, to grocery items. We want to reimagine everything from the inside of the warehouse to your front door, to get you what you want, when you want it, in a faster, cheaper, more environmentally friendly way than Amazon can,” said Simon Kalouche, the CEO of Nimble, in an interview with Ohio State University. “We want to build the future of fulfillment. Nimble’s engineering team comes from leading institutions and technology companies, including Stanford, MIT, Ohio State, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, NASA, SpaceX, Tesla, Boston Dynamics and Google X. Nimble also announced the appointment of two new board members: Fei-Fei Li, a Sequoia professor of computer science at Stanford University, and Sebastian Thrun, founder of Waymo and co-founder of Udacity. Nimble plans to use the funds to deploy more robots to its customers and expedite hiring for further product and technology development. Nimble Robotics, an e-commerce warehouse automation company, announced a $50 million Series A financing round led by DNS Capital and GSR Ventures with participation from Accel and Reinvent Capital.
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