Robotics and crowdsourced data startup Frodobots has secured $6 million in seed funding to develop BitRobot, a Solana-based embodied AI research network. BitRobot aims to connect various subgroups in robotics research by using a shared token and network to address resource allocation and data scarcity issues. Protocol VC led the funding round, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Solana Ventures, Virtuals Protocol, and Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal. Frodobots had previously raised $2 million in pre-seed funding. The company's goal is to launch BitRobot and "solve embodied AI" by generating foundational robotics models that can be deployed across various robots. The project aims to address the scarcity of rich robotics data and the need to test products in the real world. BitRobot will create a shared network of "subnets" to efficiently pool resources and data for robotics research. A white paper with more details on BitRobot and its tokenomics will be released in the coming weeks.



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