From iCub to humanoids: Generative Bionics raises $81M

Daniele Pucci, the chief executive officer and founder of Generative Bionics.|Resource: Generative Bionics

Generative Bionics, an Italian humanoid robotic designer, elevated EUR70 million ($ 81.2 million) in financing. The business claimed the brand-new financing will certainly assist it establish its item, train physical AI systems, and create its initial manufacturing plant. Generative Bionics claimed it is likewise settling its initial commercial implementation agreements, which it will certainly introduce in very early 2026.

The business intends to reveal the total variation of its initial humanoid at CES in Las Las Vega.

” Our objective is to develop a future where smart humanoid robotics work together daily with individuals, magnifying human cognitive and physical possibility,” claimed Daniele Pucci, chief executive officer and founder of Generative Bionics. “Our Physical AI allows us to make and produce human-inspired robotics that produce concrete worth throughout numerous applications. According to prominent worldwide evaluations, the humanoid robotics market will certainly go beyond EUR200 billion by 2035 and might go beyond $5 trillion by 2050. This is an epochal improvement: our objective is to place Generative Bionics as an international leader in Physical AI for human-centric humanoid environments.”

Generative Bionics is improving greater than twenty years of research study, advancement, and prototyping of humanoids at IIT. The business drew out of IIT in 2024. IIT has actually given the business special licenses to crucial modern technologies.

The financing round was led by the Expert system Fund of CDP Financial Backing. It consisted of involvement from AMD Ventures, Duferco, Eni Next, RoboIT, and Tether.

” With the launch of Generative Bionics, the Italian Institute of Modern technology is executing an additional crucial component of its objective to sustain Italy’s nationwide commercial system, adding to the area of cutting-edge, next-generation robotics,” claimed Giorgio Metta, clinical supervisor of IIT. “Twenty years have actually passed because we released the iCub task, IIT’s front runner system, which laid the strong technical structures for the Institute’s humanoid robotics program– training thousands of scientists, patenting and moving to market a series of sophisticated technological remedies. Generative Bionics is the end result of this job: the transfer of scientific research to market. It reveals that continual, secure assistance for Italian research study brings about concrete, outstanding outcomes. Generative Bionics is the biggest scholastic spin-off in Europe, currently going into the international market.”

Generative Bionics’ humanoids are improved modern technologies created in IIT’s significant robotics programs. This consists of iCub, a cognitive research study robotic; ergoCub, the humanoid co-developed with INAIL to sustain employees in commercial setups; and iRonCub, a flying humanoid.

From this structure, the business has actually specified 3 technical columns for its humanoids:

• A dispersed network of responsive and pressure sensing units, originated from iCub, making it possible for risk-free physical communication
• A Physical AI style, fine-tuned with ergoCub, permitting humanoids to be created for particular applications and to discover straight from actual settings
• Advanced AI approaches, created with iRonCub, making it possible for adjustment to severe functional problems such as heats or intricate exterior settings

Humanoids start signing up with the labor force

For the last couple of years, humanoids have actually controlled discussions in robotics. Each week, brand-new humanoid firms are turning up all over the world, and recognized firms are generating big financing rounds.

For instance, Dexterity Robotics today introduced its most recent Figure implementation. Mercado Libre, a leading business and fintech ecological community in Latin America, is incorporating Figure right into a center in San Antonio, Texas. The firms really did not give numerous information concerning what the robotic will certainly do at the center.

Figure was initial released with GXO in June 2024. This is extensively thought about to be the initial implementation of a humanoid at an industrial consumer website.

While Dexterity might be blazing a trail in implementations until now, Number AI leads in financing. In September 2025, the business shut its Collection C financing round. With the round, it exceeded $1 billion in fully commited funding, bringing its post-money evaluation to $39 billion. Number has actually released its robotics with a paying consumer because December 2024.

Both Dexterity and Number are American firms. In Europe, Generative Bionics will certainly encounter competitors from Humanoid, a U.K.-based designer that launched its initial humanoid previously this month. In Addition, Agile Robots, a German designer, revealed its humanoid Agile ONE in November.

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