🤖 Making robots as easy to control as a volume knob

Enigma has come out of stealth with a $70 million seed round from Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Founders Jonathan Jacobi — once Microsoft's youngest-ever employee — and Gal Niv had no robotics background. They built their team from math Olympiad winners and PhD dropouts anyway.

The bet isn't on a smarter robot — it's on a better interface. Spend 15 minutes explaining where the plates go and everyone reaches the same point: forget it, I'll just do it myself. To find out how people actually want to talk to machines, Enigma is opening online access to 100+ of its robots in Israel and California.

Partners in healthcare, logistics, and entertainment already exist. A business model remains, per TechCrunch, an open question — fitting for a company called Enigma.