Robotics intelligence has advanced rapidly, yet the way robot bodies are built has barely evolved, creating a structural bottleneck that now limits the industry’s ability to scale; addressing this gap, Hungarian robotics hardware startup Allonic has raised $7.2 million in pre-seed funding to industrialize a new automated manufacturing platform designed to fundamentally rethink how complex, dexterous robotic systems are produced.
Rebuilding Robotics from the Ground Up
While AI breakthroughs have transformed perception and autonomy, most robotic hardware is still assembled manually from hundreds of precision components. Bearings, screws, cables, and delicate joints must be fitted piece by piece, resulting in high production costs, limited customization, and slow scaling. As robots are expected to operate safely alongside humans while delivering greater dexterity and strength, mechanical complexity has only increased, intensifying the manufacturing challenge.
Allonic argues that this mismatch between fast-moving software innovation and slow, assembly-heavy hardware production is now the defining constraint in robotics. Rather than optimizing legacy processes, the company is redesigning the manufacturing layer itself. Its goal is to enable robotic systems that combine robustness, compliance, and safety without the traditional burden of intricate mechanical assembly.
The 3D Tissue Braiding Platform
At the center of Allonic’s approach is a proprietary process known as 3D Tissue Braiding, a fully automated production method that integrates structural elements into a single continuous build. Inspired by biological systems and rope structures, the platform weaves robotic “tissues” over skeletal cores, forming tendons, joints, and load-bearing structures simultaneously. This eliminates the need to assemble hundreds of individual parts and reduces common mechanical failure points.
For example, a robotic finger can be constructed from a small number of bone-like components held together by fine braided fibers that anchor directly into the structure. This design removes bulky fixtures and enables compliant, naturally safe movement. The result is hardware that is strong yet flexible, while being dramatically simpler and faster to manufacture.
The platform integrates proprietary hardware and software, allowing users to configure high-level robotic designs that are automatically translated into production instructions. Multiple materials, including elastic components, wiring, and sensing elements, can be embedded directly during fabrication. By collapsing mechanical complexity into automated production, Allonic claims components that once took weeks and thousands of dollars to produce can now be manufactured in minutes at a fraction of the cost.
Early Validation and Market Interest
Since revealing its technology in May 2025, Allonic has completed its first pilot project in electronics manufacturing. The focus has been on tasks that require greater versatility than conventional industrial robots can deliver, yet do not justify the cost of fully generalized robotic platforms. This positioning targets a significant middle ground in the market where flexibility and scalability are increasingly demanded.
The company reports growing inbound interest from developers in the humanoid robotics sector and large US consumer technology companies. According to Benedek Tasi, Co-Founder and CEO of Allonic, hardware constraints have historically dictated trade-offs between durability, softness, dexterity, and strength. He noted that enabling teams to move from digital design to physical hardware in minutes rather than weeks could fundamentally reshape robotics development cycles.
Funding and Next Steps
The $7.2 million pre-seed round was led by Visionaries Club, with participation from Day One Capital, alongside Prototype, SDAC Ventures, TinyVC, and more than a dozen angel investors from leading US and European technology companies and research institutions. The company states that this is the largest pre-seed financing completed in Hungary to date. The newly raised capital will accelerate development of the 3D Tissue Braiding platform, expand engineering and operations teams, and support additional pilot projects and early commercial deployments.
Allonic currently employs 15 engineers spanning robotics, materials science, and computational software, disciplines that are rarely combined within a single organization. Investors describe the widening gap between advanced AI-driven software and outdated hardware manufacturing as a structural constraint on the sector’s growth. By rethinking how robotic bodies are built at the infrastructure level, Allonic aims to provide the hardware foundation required for the next wave of intelligent machines.
As robotics moves beyond narrow industrial applications toward broader commercial and consumer use, scalable and cost-efficient hardware production is becoming essential. Allonic’s automated manufacturing approach seeks to align physical fabrication with the speed and flexibility of modern software innovation. If successful, its platform could redefine how robotic systems are designed, produced, and deployed at scale.