Raise Robotics, a developer of the Raise Robotics Construction Platform, announced on July 30 a round of financing of seeds of $ 7.75 million directed by Mac Venture Capital with the participation of non -divided ventures and existing investors Cybernetix Ventures, Zacua Ventures and Union Labs.
Financing coincides with the end of the curtain’s disposition for more than 10,000 glass panels at St. Research Hospital. Jude Children of Memphis, Tenn.
The climb is mainly known for the robotic platform that can carry out various high -risk activities in a construction place, which evolved from a robot originally used on the edges of the slab to install brackets for facade panels on medium or high structures. Today, the Raise Robotic Platform can carry out various high -risk activities, such as laser measurement near the edges, using a hammer drill to penetrates the same areas and even a design before it is safe for humans to ascend to a freshly completed apartment.
“Right now, our plan is to continue working with our existing customers and make sure we get more robots in the field,” said Gary Chen, CEO of Raise Robotics, Gary Chen. “We want to ensure that they see value in the use of our machines in their projects. This is the main purpose of funding.”
Chen added that funding will also allow work to a new version of the robot, so it can not only be used in its current applications on firm terrain, but it can also be modular, [and] We can leave it on a scissor lift or a boom elevator and reach other parts of the place. “”
The CEO and co -founder of Ray, Conley Oster, began the signature in 2021, joining his experiences under construction and technology. Chen was a Waymo veteran and other robotics and Oster startups had extensive experience in construction, including as head of technical projects at Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. In San Francisco.
Oster said that resolving risk problems or pain in a construction site will continue to be the focus of the robotics platform. “It is a key differentiating to us, the capabilities of various tools.” he said. “The current tools we support include a pair controller, a hammer drill fixer, a design tool and a surface profile, but we plan to continue to expand the applications in the same way as the customers are driving them. It has certainly been a very strong message over the last year.”
Oster said that when contractors have begun adopting more robots, Raise reviews them very similarly to other teams, through time metrics. “Multipurpose robots offer a very good story around time,” he said.
