SafeWorld Emerges From Stealth With $12.2M in Funding to Build Robot-Safety Simulation Software

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SafeWorld emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun to develop simulation software for testing the safety of autonomous robots before real-world deployment.
The Palo Alto startup’s platform lets companies create safety scenarios from incidents, standards and robot logs, then run robots through thousands of simulated variations involving realistic human movement as software and operating conditions change.