Luffy AI Raises £8.1M Series A for Adaptive Motor Control

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Luffy AI, a company based on the Culham Campus in Oxfordshire, England, has raised £8.1 million (€9.4 million) in a Series A round to commercialize its neuroplastic AI for real-time adaptive control. BGF led the financing, joined by MIG Capital through its MIG Fonds, with existing investors Bow Capital, Chrysalix, Momenta and UKI2S also taking part.

Founded by Dr Matthew Carr and Dr Alex Meakins, both former nuclear physicists with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Luffy has built sparse neural networks that train in simulation without large datasets and then refine themselves in the field. The company says the approach can reach up to 400 times greater efficiency than traditional deep learning, and it is putting the models into industrial motor control for equipment such as pumps, fans and conveyors.

The funding will drive the startup’s commercialization pipeline as it moves the technology into more industrial settings.