

German artificial intelligence robotics startup Sereact GmBH today announced it raised €25 million, about $26 million, to accelerate the development of its AI models for robots and its robotics platform.
The funding came from a Series A funding round led by Creandum, with participation from existing investors Point Nine and Air Street Capital.
Founded in 2021, Sereact develops robots and AI vision language action models that allow them to understand the world and interact with objects in real time without the need for complex training or programming.
The startup provides industrial and collaborative robotics using vision transformers that can recognize as-yet unknown objects with high accuracy and interact with them without additional pretraining. Using the company’s technology robots can pick and pack items in warehouses, handle fragile objects, sort goods, manage inventory and more.
“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.”
According to the company, it used zero-shot reasoning as part of its PickGPT model to create fully autonomous robotics by combining generative AI capabilities, large language model and vision model AI with robotics manipulation. This allows robots to understand speech commands, visually identify objects, interpret unfamiliar situations without prior training, and use advanced reasoning to implement plans.
For example, a user could ask a robot to remove only green boxes from a particular bin and place them in another. The robotic vision model would then make the plan that it can see two green boxes and it is now going to reach in, remove them and place them into the alternate bin. It will be able to do this even if the two green boxes are oddly shaped and different shades of green.
Sereact already supports a wide variety of robotics throughout numerous industries, with customers including automakers BMW Group and Daimler Truck, online retailer Bol, and e-commerce solution companies MS Direct AG and Active Ants BV.
The company said that the funding will enable the development of AI solutions to support more complex tasks beyond logistics and manufacturing. With the expansion of those efforts, Sereact said it intends to look into supporting additional robotic platforms, including mobile robots and humanoids.
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