AI · 8 October 2026 · 3 min read
Mecka raises $60 million to record people doing ordinary jobs
The Series B, led by Sequoia, is for motion data. People are paid to wear sensors and film tasks such as making coffee, so humanoid robots have something to learn from.
Mecka AI has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia, with Nvidia and Microsoft’s venture fund M12 among the other investors, TechCrunch reported on 7 October. The company, founded in 2024, collects human motion so robots can be trained on it. People are paid to record everyday work, such as making coffee or fixing a car, while wearing body sensors and using a phone.
This is the data business sitting beside the humanoid business. A robot that has never seen a wrist turn a kettle will not invent that motion from a language model. Mecka is betting labs will buy the recordings the way they already buy labelled text. That is a coherent product. It is not evidence that the robots trained on it can do the job.