Roboligent

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Roboligent, Inc.

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Roboligent, Inc. is a United States robotics company founded in 2016 in Austin, Texas, out of research at the University of Texas at Austin, and now operating from 2712 Meister Place, Round Rock, Texas, just outside Austin. Its founder is Bongsu Kim, who took a doctorate at UT Austin working on HARMONY, a dual-arm rehabilitation exoskeleton that used force and torque control to help people with stroke, spinal cord injury and other severe disabilities perform upper-body movements, and who has pursued the same technical line since founding the company: building robots that make controlled physical contact with people and objects rather than working behind a cage. Roboligent does the whole stack in house and presents it as three layers designed around each other. The first is soft actuation: compliant force-controlled actuators of its own design that are mechanically soft by construction rather than by software, covered by four granted US patents, three of them on the compliant actuator and its internal assemblies plus a design patent, with counterparts allowed in Europe, Japan, Korea and Canada and a gripper patent allowed and awaiting issue. The second is real-time force control: full-time closed-loop force control in which the robot commands force directly instead of commanding a position and absorbing whatever force results. The third is physical AI: a force-aware model trained in house plus fleet software that maps, navigates, records demonstrations, trains policies and runs them, so new skills and fixes reach robots already in the field as software updates, and because the actuators measure force at every joint the model learns from touch as well as vision. The company's central safety claim is that in its own comparative testing Robin generates roughly a tenth of the impact force of a conventional rigid arm under equivalent contact conditions, which comes from the actuator design itself and is why the robot can work without fencing. Its commercial product is Robin, a two-armed mobile robot on an omni-directional base with a motorised lifting column, sold under a subscription service agreement rather than a one-time purchase, on the company's argument that customers buy the work rather than the robot, in three stages of pilot, deploy and expand. Robin is assembled at the company's own facility in Round Rock by the same team that designs it, and a pilot production run is under way, with the company hiring its first manufacturing quality engineer to build the quality function for it. Roboligent also has a rehabilitation line, marketed as REGEN and described in federal award records as Optimo, in which a mobile robot arm connects to a patient's arm or leg through a brace, letting a therapist teach a patient-specific movement on a touchscreen, set repetitions and let the robot replay the exercise while assisting; it is presented as a medical device for hospitals and clinics, and its regulatory status is not established. The company is funded through a mix of private placements and non-dilutive federal research awards: a 2021 StartEngine Regulation Crowdfunding campaign that raised USD 383,444; a 2024 Form D reporting USD 2 million sold to two investors from a USD 2.5 million offering; and a 8 September 2026 Form D reporting the full USD 2.5 million sold to a single investor, taking private securities sales recorded since August 2024 to USD 4.5 million with no valuation disclosed. On the federal side it holds a National Science Foundation SBIR award of about USD 1.2 million backing the core actuation work, and an AFWERX STTR Phase II procurement order awarded in September 2024 worth up to USD 1,799,035 under contract FA864924P1123, pairing it with UT Austin to adapt Optimo to military rehabilitation including musculoskeletal injury treatment and stroke rehabilitation, a contract whose record lists completion on 16 June 2026. Roboligent is an NVIDIA Inception member and works with a Korean partner, Gosung Engineering.

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ROBIN

Released 2025

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