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.
Raise is better known for a robotic platform that can carry out various high -risk activities in a construction place that evolved from a robot that was 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 the measure of laser near the edges, using a hammer drill to penetrate in the same areas and even make a design before their safety so that humans ascend to a newly 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 objective with funding, but we also work in a new version of the robot, where it can not only be used in its current applications on a firm terrain, but it can also be modular, so that we can leave it in an elevator of the escissors or a boom lift and to be able to reach other areas of the place. ”
Chen and co -founder Conley Oster began to climb in 2021, gathering their experiences in 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 perforation fixer, a design tool, a surface profiler, 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 contractors have begun to adopt more robots, they are very similar to other teams, and that it is through time metrics.
“Multipurpose robots offer a very good story around time,” he said.
