Ed is Co-Founder & CEO of Machenta, and Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London. After building a research group at Imperial focused on developing AI that could learn new physical skills as quickly and easily as humans, he brought that same team with him to found Machenta at the end of 2025. Following a $40m seed round co-led by Creandum and USV, Ed and his team are building a model for “Instant Robot Learning” — enabling robots to learn new tasks from just a single real-world demonstration, with the model pre-trained entirely in simulation. Until now, robot learning has been too slow and tedious for truly flexible deployment. Instant learning changes that, opening the door to “physical vibe coding” and new possibilities for creativity in physical AI.