Bleu Robotics Raises EUR 5M Pre-Seed to Cut Humanoid Factory Deployment to Under One Hour

French factory-humanoid startup Bleu Robotics closed a EUR 5 million pre-seed round co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital, with Kvanted, WEPA Ventures, Motier Ventures and Charlie Songhurst participating. The team, led by ex-Renault engineer Benoit Berkoukchi with INRIA researchers Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Serena Ivaldi, is pitching an abductive learning model that needs only 10 operator demonstrations and targets full humanoid deployment inside one hour on a line.