When CodecFlow started last year, robotics was barely on crypto’s radar.
The goal was to change that by bringing the whole robot development cycle into the crypto-native world, from the first test to the finished machine.
Talking to other builders and looking at the problem as a whole, the same conclusion kept coming up: building a robot is brutally hard, for three reasons.
I. Nowhere to test it.
Labs and hardware cost more than most ideas are worth, so the first thing we built was a way around them. SimArena lets anyone check whether a robot idea works in simulation before spending anything on equipment. This week, around 80 teams at the robo.innovate hackathon in Munich are using it for their challenges.
II. Nothing to train it on.
Robots learn from examples, and the examples they need either don’t exist yet or aren’t labelled in a way a robot can learn from. It’s one of the quietest bottlenecks in robotics and one of the hardest to fix, but there’s news on it coming soon.
III. No money or network to build it.
Once a robot works in simulation, getting it into production takes real capital, factory connections, a supply chain and customers waiting to buy it. This is where most robotics startups die. That’s why we teamed up with
@machinedotfun and
@peaq on a launchpad and accelerator built for exactly this stage.
Through partnerships and integrations with
@solana,
@Raydium,
@sunrise and
@peaq, the goal is to give machines something they’ve never had: capital markets of their own, where a robot is tradable from day one, and anyone who believes in it can take a position before the rest of the market catches on.
For the first time, the whole robotics lifecycle, in one place: design it → train it → build it.
We’re excited to open that door to anyone, anywhere, and help them take a machine from prototype to business.
@machinedotfun launches in the next 48H.