Xaba – a developer of the first AI-powered cognitive software solution to automate programming and deployment of robotics and CNC machines – recently announced it has raised $2 million in a seed extension round of funding to bring AI-driven fabrication processes and intelligent autonomous machines to market. This funding round was led by BDC Capital’s Deep Tech Venture Fund with participation from Hitachi Ventures and existing investor Hazelview Ventures. The investment will establish and staff a new robotics lab and accelerate the delivery of two Xaba manufacturing platforms.
Xaba is augmenting industrial robots and cobots with xCognition, an AI-powered software solution. And xCognition utilizes innovative proprietary machine learning algorithms to model the elasto-mechanical-dynamic behavior of industrial robotics and cobots and workpiece variances. This includes variances in location and shape, using proprietary rule-based language models to eliminate coding of robotics programs. xCognition solves the challenges of deploying industrial robots by automating how they are programmed and adopted. This solution increases accuracy, consistency, and throughput and significantly reduces the time and costs of robotics deployments.
This year, Xaba partnered with Lockheed Martin and Rolleri Robotic to demonstrate 10x performance improvements in absolute positioning and 5x improvements in relative positioning and trajectory accuracy for cobots using Xaba’s manufacturing platforms. Xaba has two manufacturing platforms (xCognition and xTrude) – which use proprietary industrial AI to provide AI-powered cognitive industrial automation, consistency, and high execution quality. These platforms eliminate the need for constant human supervision, reprogramming, and waste – factors that significantly impact the return on investment of any major manufacturing or construction process.
xCognition is Xaba’s AI-powered software solution, and this industrial robotics digital twin captures and models the true physics of any industrial robotics system (elastic, dynamic, mechanical, tooling). And this includes workpiece variances both in location and shape, leveraging rules-based language models and multi-modal datasets that capture legacy data and best practices to enable any robotics system to execute tasks like drilling, welding (MIG, TIG & Laser), assembling, riveting, laser, data acquisition, and more with maximum accuracy, repeatability, and minimum human supervision.
KEY QUOTES:
“AI represents a wave of change in the automation industry, removing significant barriers to technology adoption in manufacturing and other industrial sectors. Xaba is a great example of how the integration of AI is empowering industrial robotics technologies – enabling them to self-generate programs, substantially improve their accuracy and precision, and provide highly valuable feedback to users.”
— Thomas Park, lead partner of BDC Capital’s Deep Tech Venture Fund; In connection with the funding round, Park has been appointed to the Xaba board of directors.
“With the integration of AI-powered cognition and awareness, robots become easy to adopt and profitable for businesses across various tasks and sizes. With this funding in place, we can now establish our Xaba manufacturing platforms as the go-to solutions for implementing new intelligent robotics, creating automated factories, and developing disruptive new processes and materials.”
— Massimiliano Moruzzi, CEO of Xaba
“Cognitive systems will be the future of next generation robotics and Xaba’s AI-based software solution has demonstrated that it can elevate the performance of high precision robotics such as welding and drilling by enabling adaptive learning, real-time decision-making, and seamless human-robot collaboration. As a well-known force in this industry, with a strong focus on robotics and manufacturing, an investment in Xaba gives us the ability to explore this domain further.”
— Gayathri Radhakrishnan, Partner at Hitachi Ventures
