With OpenAI backing, Allonic raises €6 million for robotic body manufacturing platform

Budapest-based robotics startup Allonic has raised €6 million ($7.2 million) in pre-Seed funding to industrialise a new way of producing complex, dexterous robotic bodies through its manufacturing platform.

The round was led by Visionaries Club, with participation from Day One Capital, Prototype, SDAC Ventures and TinyVC. The round also includes more than a dozen angel investors including OpenAI and Hugging Face, as well as top research institutions such as ETH Zurich and Northwestern University. This is reportedly the largest pre-Seed financing completed in Hungary to date.

“A lot of attention is on intelligence and software, but hardware still holds many of the hardest problems,” says Benedek Tasi, co-founder and CEO of Allonic. “The trade-offs between durability and softness, dexterity and strength have always been dictated by the limits of manufacturing. We are removing those constraints and building a platform that allows robotics teams to design, build and iterate freely, without hardware cost or complexity holding them back.”

In the wider European robotics and physical-AI funding environment of 2025–2026, Allonic’s pre-Seed round aligns with a steady flow of capital into both hardware-centric and enabling robotics technologies.

In 2025, Zurich-based Gravis Robotics raised €19 million to scale its autonomous robotic excavators for construction, while fellow Swiss startup mimic secured €13.8 million to develop dexterous robotic systems. Also in Zurich, Flexion closed a €43 million Series A to build cognitive and control systems for humanoid and autonomous robots.

On the autonomy and software side, Germany’s Energy Robotics raised €11.5 million to advance autonomous inspection robots and drones, while London-based Neuracore raised €2.5 million pre-Seed to build unified robot-learning infrastructure.

In adjacent application-focused segments, Warsaw-based Nomagic announced an €8.3 million round in early 2026 to scale physical-AI deployments, Dutch startup SAIA Agrobotics raised €10 million for greenhouse automation, and UK-based ScrubMarine secured approximately €849k pre-Seed for subsea robotics.

Altogether, these disclosed rounds represent roughly €98 million invested into European robotics and closely related physical-AI startups over the period.

Against this backdrop, Allonic’s Hungary-based pre-Seed financing is notable both for its size at such an early stage and for its focus on robotic manufacturing infrastructure, an area that has seen comparatively fewer large early-stage investments than applications or software layers.

“Being able to go from idea to physical robot in minutes instead of weeks fundamentally changes how we can think about robotics design,” Benedek adds. “Once that barrier disappears, entirely new classes of robots become possible.”

Founded in 2021, Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process.

By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic aims to enable faster iteration, lower costs, and safer, more dexterous robots to be built.

According to the company, most advanced robots are still built through slow, often manual assembly of hundreds of precision parts. This makes them expensive to produce, hard to customise for diverse use cases, and difficult to scale. Allonic believes this manufacturing bottleneck is now the defining limit on what robotics can become.

While AI breakthroughs have transformed how robots operate, their physical construction has changed little from industrial-era conventions. Robotic hands, arms and manipulators are still put together piece by piece, relying on bearings, screws, cables, and delicate joints that are costly to manufacture and tedious to assemble.

As functional demands increase, so does mechanical complexity – building and scaling the right bodies that combine dexterity, robustness and human-safety.

Allonic is tackling this challenge at the manufacturing infrastructure layer. Its proprietary production process replaces manual assembly with a fully automated, scalable manufacturing system. Inspired by how ropes achieve strength through structure rather than rigid parts, Allonic 3D-weaves tailored robotic “tissues” directly over a skeletal core.

Instead of assembling hundreds of individual parts, Allonic’s tendons, joints and load-bearing soft tissues are formed together in one continuous process.

A robotic finger, for example, can be built from a small number of bone-like elements, held together by hundreds of fine fibres that wrap around and anchor into the structure itself, similar to connective tissue in the human body.

Allonic’s platform combines proprietary hardware and software that allows users to configure high-level robotic designs and translate them automatically into production code, in a process similar to slicing in 3D printing.

Multiple materials can be integrated into a single structure, enabling elastics, wiring and sensing elements to be embedded directly into robotic bodies during production. Advanced robotic components, or complete limbs, can be manufactured directly from digital designs without managing complex supply chains or distributed fabrication and assembly processes.

This unlocks a new operating model for manufacturers, startups and researchers: Manipulators can be designed, produced and replaced on demand, reducing downtime and eliminating lengthy maintenance cycles. At Allonic’s production speed and costs, robotic end effectors can be swapped as easily as disposable gloves, making customised hardware economically viable for the first time.

“Robotics has reached a tipping point,” says Marton Sarkadi Nagy, Partner at Visionaries Club. “The gap between sophisticated, AI-driven software and slow hardware manufacturing is now a limiting factor for the entire industry. Allonic is the first company I’ve seen to address this problem at the infrastructure layer. By rethinking how robotic bodies are built from scratch, they open the door to faster iteration, lower costs, and robots that will finally be able to move beyond narrow industrial use cases.”

Since revealing its technology in May 2025, Allonic has already completed its first pilot project in electronics manufacturing, targeting tasks where traditional industrial robots lack the required versatility, but fully generalised robotic platforms are still impractical or prohibitively expensive, particularly at scale.

The newly raised capital will be used to accelerate the development of Allonic’s 3D Tissue Braiding platform, expand its engineering and operations teams, and support further pilots and early commercial deployments with industrial partners.