Highlights:

  • The business claims that it combined generative AI capabilities, large language model, and vision model AI with robotics manipulation to develop fully autonomous robotics using zero-shot reasoning as part of their PickGPT model.
  • According to the company, the funds will make it possible to develop AI solutions that can assist with more complicated activities than only manufacturing and logistics.

German AI robotics startup Sereact GmBH raised USD 26 million to foster developing its AI models for robotic platforms.

With cooperation from current investors Point Nine and Air Street Capital, Creandum led a Series A investment round that provided the funds.

Sereact, founded in 2021, creates AI vision language action models and robots that can comprehend their environment and interact with items in real time without requiring intricate programming or training.

Using vision transformers, the business offers industrial and collaborative robotics that can interact with items without further pretraining and recognize as-yet-unknown objects with high accuracy. Robots can handle fragile materials, sort products, pick and pack items in warehouses, manage inventories, and more with the help of the company’s technology.

“With our technology, robots act situationally rather than following rigidly programmed sequences,” said Co-founder and Chief Executive Ralf Gulde. “They adapt to dynamic tasks in real-time, enabling an unprecedented level of autonomy.”

The business claims that it combined generative AI capabilities, large language model, and vision model AI with robotics manipulation to develop fully autonomous robotics using zero-shot reasoning as part of their PickGPT model. This enables robots to comprehend spoken commands, recognize objects visually, comprehend novel circumstances without previous training, and apply sophisticated reasoning to carry out plans.

A user may instruct a robot, for instance, to take only green boxes out of one bin and put them in another. After determining that it can see two green boxes, the robotic vision model would reach inside, take them out, and put them in the other bin. Even if the two green boxes have various shades of green and an odd shape, it will still be able to accomplish this.

With clients like online retailer Bol, e-commerce solution providers MS Direct AG and Active Ants BV, and automakers BMW Group and Daimler Truck, Sereact already supports a wide range of robotics across many industries.

According to the company, the funds will make it possible to develop AI solutions that can assist with more complicated activities than only manufacturing and logistics. Sereact stated that it plans to investigate supporting other robotic platforms, such as mobile robots and humanoids, as part of the development of those activities.