Mimic Robotics connects FLUX 3 to industrial robots at Audi
The Zurich startup added factory data and an action decoder to Black Forest Labs' multimodal backbone for Audi manipulation tests.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Black Forest Labs
Why it matters
Black Forest Labs is using one costly video backbone for creative software and industrial robotics, while Mimic Robotics supplies the scarce action data and factory deployment layer.

Robin Rombach (@robrombach), co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, and Mimic Robotics co-founders Stefan Weirich (@stefan_weirich) and Elvis Nava (@elvisnavah) have connected an early version of FLUX 3 to industrial robots. The resulting system, FLUX-mimic, is being tested and deployed with Audi on manipulation jobs involving components, seals, cables and other flexible materials, the companies said on July 23rd.…
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.