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Hungarian Robotics Startup Allonic Raises $7.2M in Pre-Seed Funding Round

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  • Allonic has raised $7.2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Visionaries Club, with participation from Day One Capital, PROTOTYPE, RoboStrategy, SDAC Ventures and Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, according to the company.
  • The startup is developing a proprietary manufacturing platform based on its 3D Tissue Braiding technology, designed to produce advanced robotic limbs in a single, automated, assembly-free process.
  • Allonic aims to address a growing hardware bottleneck in robotics by enabling faster, lower-cost production of robotic bodies that combine dexterity, robustness and human safety as AI-driven deployments scale.

Hungarian robotics startup Allonic announced it has raised $7.2 million in a pre-seed funding round as it looks to tackle a growing constraint in the robotics industry: how to manufacture capable, safe robotic bodies at scale as AI-driven deployments accelerate. The round was led by Visionaries Club, with participation from Day One Capital, PROTOTYPE, RoboStrategy, SDAC Ventures and Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, according to the company.

While advances in AI have sharply expanded what robots can do, Allonic said it is focused on the less visible problem of how those robots are built. As machines move into more varied and less controlled environments, manufacturers face rising demands for hardware that combines dexterity, durability, and human safety — without driving up cost or complexity.

Allonic’s approach centers on a proprietary manufacturing process it calls 3D Tissue Braiding. The company says the technology enables the production of advanced robotic limbs in a single, automated process, eliminating conventional assembly steps. By integrating structure, flexibility and function into one manufacturing flow, Allonic aims to shorten production timelines and reduce costs while maintaining performance requirements for real-world use.

The company positions its platform as foundational infrastructure for the next phase of robotics adoption, where scale and reliability matter as much as intelligence. As AI enables robots to take on more tasks, bottlenecks are shifting from software to hardware – – particularly in producing complex components consistently and at volume.

The company said the new capital will be used to further develop the manufacturing platform and move it toward broader production readiness.

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