Usenua
Multimodal AI · Artificial Intelligence
Overview
Nua builds video decision models. Artificer, our 4B robotics model, judges task success and progress from video at frontier level, for robot evaluation, data labelling and VLA training. Backed by Y Combinator.
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Oct 29
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Artificer by Nua: Frontier robotics task evaluation in 4B parameters
Oct 2026
Formerly Nua (trynua.dev)
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