Enigma

Robots that feel right.

Enigma is putting 100 real, AI-powered robots on the public internet at robots.online, letting anyone with a browser send commands and watch physical hardware carry them out in real time. The launch coincides with the company's emergence from stealth and is aimed at giving engineers, operators, and curious observers a hands-on way to probe how well general-purpose robotics models actually work outside a lab demo. Founded less than a year ago by CEO Jonathan Jacobi and CTO Gal Niv, Enigma is developing foundation AI models for robots, alongside software and interfaces designed to make robotic systems easier to deploy and operate. The technical bet is on a robot-agnostic stack. The company trains AI models that bring intelligence to any robot, on any hardware, and builds novel user interfaces on top of them, which is why the public demo can span different physical setups and tasks rather than a single scripted showcase. The video walks through one such interaction, a conversational cocktail-making session in which a user picks a theme and the robot selects colors, bottles, and steps, hinting at how the interface layer translates casual natural-language intent into grounded physical action. Jacobi and Niv previously served together in Israel's Unit 8200, and Enigma is based in San Francisco. Israeli startup Enigma has emerged from stealth with a $71 million Seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, which matters here because the robots.online experience doubles as a data-collection surface: every session with a public user is feedback on how people instinctively try to instruct machines, which feeds back into the models and the interfaces the company is selling to partners in entertainment, retail, and health.

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