Inner Sky Labs launches physical AI models beyond Miko robots
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The move from Miko companion robots to models for outside manufacturers meaningfully broadens the company's role, but undisclosed external deployments and performance limit demonstrated impact.
Inner Sky Labs launches physical AI models beyond Miko robots
Inner Sky Labs, the business behind Miko children's companion robots, has launched foundation models spanning vision, audio, touch, action, and safety. The suite is designed to help machines perceive their surroundings, plan and execute physical actions, and check those actions against safety rules. CEO Sneh Vaswani told Inc42 that the company is closing a 3 billion rupee funding round, approximately $30.9 million, involving YourNest Venture Capital, Keshav R Murugesh, and new global investors. If completed, the round would bring total funding to $100 million.
The launch moves the business beyond a consumer robot brand toward supplying an underlying AI layer to other machine manufacturers. Within physical AI, that changes its competitive role: technology developed for a specific device is now being offered for broader use across machines. Inner Sky Labs is an umbrella brand under the same legal entity that owns Miko, rather than a separate company. Its planned enterprise and government expansion makes adoption by outside buyers the next test of whether its models can support a wider business than companion robots.
For builders and investors, the concrete diligence question is how well the models transfer beyond Miko's operating environment. The supplied report gives no benchmark results, named external deployments, or commercial terms, so the launch alone does not establish general-purpose robotics capability. The company plans to direct fresh capital toward real-world data collection, computing infrastructure, and model training; evidence of reliable performance on other manufacturers' machines would help assess the commercial reach of that investment.