Dream Labs raises $90M to sell robot control through a $3-an-hour API

The startup founded by former NVIDIA researchers Joel Jang and You Liang Tan says Dream-1 can control unfamiliar bimanual robots without robot-specific training.

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Dream Labs is turning robot-control research into a metered API and asking hardware makers to outsource part of the intelligence stack. Its $90 million seed round funds that infrastructure bet, while the model's hardware requirements and beta status limit where it can be used.

A two-armed robot places a melon into a harvest crate inside a greenhouse marked Dream Labs.

Dream Labs emerged from stealth on October 19th with a $90 million seed round and Dream-1, a robot-control model offered through a public API for $3 per hour. Co-founders Joel Jang and You Liang Tan are betting that robot makers can buy a general-purpose control layer instead of building a separate policy for each machine.

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