Allonic, a Budapest-based robotics manufacturing startup with a joint U.S. headquarters, has raised $7.2 million in pre-seed funding to commercialize a production platform it says can dramatically simplify and scale the production of complex robotic hardware. The round was led by Visionaries Club, with backing from Day One Capital, Prototype, SDAC Ventures, and TinyVC. The company said the financing is the largest pre-seed round to date in Hungary.
The company is positioning manufacturing, not intelligence, as the next constraint in robotics. While perception and autonomy continue to improve rapidly, Allonic argues that advanced robots remain expensive and slow to produce because they rely on manual or semi-manual assembly of hundreds of precision components. That approach, it says, makes robotic bodies difficult to customize for different tasks and hard to scale reliably.
Allonic’s core product is a proprietary process it calls “3D Tissue Braiding,” which the company describes as a fully automated method for 3D-weaving robotic “tissues” around a skeletal core. Rather than building robotic hands, arms, and manipulators by assembling bearings, screws, cables, and joints, Allonic says its method forms tendons, joints, and load-bearing structures together in a single continuous manufacturing process. The company compares its approach to how ropes gain strength from structure, aiming to reduce mechanical failure points while producing bodies that are strong, compliant, and inherently safer around humans.
On the software side, Allonic says its platform can translate high-level robotic designs into production code in a workflow it likens to 3D-printing “slicing.” The system is designed to integrate multiple materials into one structure, enabling elastics, wiring, and sensing elements to be embedded during production. Allonic claims this collapses supply-chain complexity and reduces the specialist expertise and capital typically required to fabricate and assemble advanced robotic components, cutting production time from weeks to minutes at a fraction of the cost.
Since first revealing its technology in May 2025, Allonic said it has completed an initial pilot project in electronics manufacturing, targeting tasks where traditional industrial robots lack versatility but fully generalized systems remain impractical or too costly at scale. The company also reported inbound interest from humanoid robotics teams and large consumer technology companies, including several U.S. “Big Tech” players.
Allonic said it has built a 15-person engineering team spanning robotics, materials science, and computational software. The company plans to use the new capital to accelerate development of its 3D Tissue Braiding platform, expand engineering and operations, and support additional pilots and early commercial deployments with industrial partners.
KEY QUOTES
“A lot of attention is on intelligence and software, but hardware still holds many of the hardest problems. 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. Being able to go from idea to physical robot in minutes instead of weeks fundamentally changes how we can think about robotics design. Once that barrier disappears, entirely new classes of robots become possible.”
Benedek Tasi, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Allonic
“Robotics has reached a tipping point. 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.”
Marton Sarkadi Nagy, Partner, Visionaries Club
