Motion, the company behind what it says is Europe’s first Humanoids-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform, has raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Extantia Capital, with participation from Norrsken Evolve.
The funding will take Motion’s five live pilots with Belgian industrial, warehouse and logistics players into full production, expand the team and grow its robot fleet, starting in the Benelux.
On factory floors today, Motion’s humanoids are being trained to load goods into crates, pack containers into boxes and place components on conveyor belts, side by side with the human teams they support. [Read more…] about Motion raises $2 million to put humanoid robots to work in European factories