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.
By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Primary source: [X](https://x.com/dreamlabs_ai/status/2112230668805828801)
Why it matters #
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.
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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