In short:

We are building autonomous factories, starting two-arms cell for electronics assembly.

****We developed continuous-learning AI pipeline works at near 100% reliability and require 10x less data for manufacturing tasks. https://research.microfactory.com/

Our users are incentivised to collect data, and cover corner cases after deployment themselves. This gives us unique blocks of data without blind spots, which is necessary to make a reliable foundational model.

Traction In the first three weeks selling at full price, we've got $51k in bank from 5 customers, and we have another 140 people in our paid waitlist.

Business model: Selling inference at $1/hour or a $5K license per robot.

Ask: 5M seed To serve the waitlist, deploy 100 robots, and automate our own production.

Team

We are Igor and Viktor, both CS grads. Previously owned an electronics manufacturing business for 9 years. We are solving our own problem.

Understanding the domain helped us find solutions that are overlooked by traditional academic robotics labs.

Igor (CEO)

• Developed the concept of continual learning for manipulation tasks, which required collaboration of experts from multiple domains.
• Co-author of the robotic paper, presented at the CORL conference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17321
• Grew X following from 200 to 9K people by publishing robotics research content.

Viktor (CTO)

• Designed a telepresence robot in 2017.
• Designed an industrial-grade 6 dof robotic arm (high precision, ability to run 24/7, smooth motion required for the AI model).
• Designed a system of hot-swappable grippers with compliance mechanics.

Denys (Founding engineer)

• Developed low-cost stereo cameras with global shutter, synchronization, and on-chip image optimization.
• Optimized the model to run on a GPU that is 10x cheaper, using a range of techniques including custom CUDA kernels and QAT (Quantization Aware Training).
• Designed a high-speed controller for the industrial robotic arm.

Our helpful angels:

• Yevgen Chebotar (Investor/advisor)
  • Co-creator of robotic VLA model at DeepMind.
  • A scientist behind the Helix model at Figure humanoid robot.
• Naval Ravikant
  • An early investor in Uber and Twitter
• Clem Delangue
  • The founder of HuggingFace

How it works

Please read: https://research.microfactory.com/

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