The startup company, which is worth $ 30 million

While many robotics companies build a human size, or work to automate the entire factories, Microfactory Instead, he tries to think about a small building.

San Francisco -based Microfactory has built a general purpose manufacturer for general purposes that revolve around the size of dog cage in Siberia. This compact plant includes two mechanical arms and can be trained by the human demonstration, as well as through artificial intelligence.

“Robots for general purposes are good, but it is not necessary (to be) human.” “We decided to design robots from the zero point that will remain a general purpose but not in the human form, and in this way, it can be done much more simple and easier in devices and on the artificial intelligence side.”

Instead of selling individual automatic weapons, the Microfactory system comes as a closed but transparent workstation, allowing users to see the actual manufacturing process. The built -in factory in the box is designed for micro -tasks such as gathering the circuit board, welding ingredients, and guiding cables. Users can train robots by physically directing weapons through complex movements-a practical approach that Colacov says it works faster than traditional artificial intelligence programming for the complex manufacturing sequence.

“It usually takes a few hours, but in this way, the robot better understands what it should do,” said Kolakov. “When you use people, we still need to spend time, such as a week or something, to direct these people to oversee their work. A manufacturer, they already have this time and resources to be spent, and it will be easier to train a model and make it work in this way.”

Kulakov’s experience with traditional manufacturing helped stir up the idea behind Microfactory.

He and his co -founder, VikTor Petrenko, used to run Bitlighter, a manufacturer that made portable lighting equipment for photographers. Colacov said it was difficult to train new employees on how to properly complete the manufacturing process. When developments in artificial intelligence made it possible to automate this type of work, they decided to jump the opportunity.

Kolakov and Petrinco Microfikor launched in 2024. It took about five months to build the initial model. Now the company has hundreds of pre -factors of customers who look to use machines for various applications, including collecting electronics and even handling snails to be shipped to France for Escargot.

Microfactory just raised a $ 1.5 million financing round, which included investors such as AI Hugging Face and Instropreneor Naval Ravikant. The tour is estimated to start the young man with a post -money evaluation of $ 30 million.

Colacov said that the company plans to use financing to build its units. The company is currently converting the initial model into a commercial product that hopes to start charging within about two months.

The company also plans to make some appointments and continue to improve its technology, including artificial intelligence models that operate under the cover.

“Our growth is linked to the construction of devices, so we set the goal to increase 10x every year,” said Kolakov. “In the first year, we want to produce 1000 robots, (about) three per day, and we have the ability to do so. Then, (we want) make more and more products.”