In short:
Product:
MicroFactory is a compact robotic cell for electronics assembly.
Our customers have frequently changing tasks, so we use an agentic integrator that handles the entire deployment: generates tooling, writes control code, trains models, and writes instructions for the human operator.
Long-term goal:
We’re targeting the same high-mix, low-volume tasks as humanoids (estimated at $42T), but we starting with a robot that has a positive ROI and benefits from frontier models.
Business model
Initial payment for hardware + subscription + token usage
Traction
- Production for Unruggable startup, they paid $22k and built whole strategy around MicroFactory.
- 140 paid reservations ($1.4M in pipeline), includes Roche (Fortune 500), Molex (a Lockheed Martin supplier).
Ask:
5M seed
To fulfill the reservations, deploy 100 robots, and automate our own production.
Team
We are Igor and Viktor previously owned an electronics manufacturing business for 9 years. We are solving our own problem we had.
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.
Traction