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Allonic Raises $7.2M to Rebuild How Robotic Hardware Is Made


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Allonic Raises $7.2M to Rebuild How Robotic Hardware Is Made

As robotics intelligence advances, hardware manufacturing is emerging as the main constraint on scale. Most advanced robots are still assembled manually from many precision components, making them expensive, complex, and difficult to adapt to new use cases.

Co-founded by Benedek Tasi, D谩vid L谩szl贸 Pelyva and David Hollo, Allonic, a Hungary-founded company with a joint US headquarters, is addressing this problem by rebuilding robotic manufacturing from the ground up. The company has raised $7.2M in pre-seed funding, led by Visionaries Club with participation from Day One Capital and other investors. The round is the largest pre-seed financing completed in Hungary to date.

Rather than assembling robots from individual parts, Allonic has developed a proprietary manufacturing process called 3D Tissue Braiding. The system uses automated braiding techniques to form robotic connective structures directly around skeletal elements in a single, integrated process. This reduces reliance on traditional fasteners and manual assembly while enabling strong, compliant, and mechanically simpler robotic bodies.

Allonic is building a manufacturing platform that translates digital designs directly into production instructions, allowing robotic components to be produced and iterated on significantly faster than with conventional methods. Multiple materials, including elastic and sensing elements, can be integrated during manufacturing.

The approach enables a different operating model for robotics teams: task-specific manipulators that can be produced, swapped, and replaced more easily as requirements change. Allonic has completed its first pilot in electronics manufacturing and is working with early design partners developing complex robotic systems.

As robotics moves toward broader deployment in human environments, manufacturing efficiency is becoming a defining factor. Allonic is positioning itself as part of the infrastructure needed to scale the next generation of robotic hardware.



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