Allonic Raises $7.2 Million to Build the Foundation for Advanced Robotic Hardware

Allonic, reimagining how robotics are made and where they can go, led by Benedek Tasi, Dávid Pelyva, David Holló, and others, has raised $7.2M in pre-seed funding, led by Visionaries Club and with backing from Day One Capital, RoboStrategy, Prototype, SDAC Ventures, and TinyVC. The round also includes more than a dozen angel investors from leading US and European tech companies, including OpenAI and Hugging Face, as well as top research institutions such as ETH Zurich and Northwestern University. This is the largest pre-seed financing completed in Hungary to date.

Robotic intelligence is advancing rapidly, yet manufacturing remains a major bottleneck. Most advanced robots are still assembled manually from hundreds of precision parts, making them costly, hard to customize, and difficult to scale. Allonic, founded in Hungary with a US HQ, is developing a new manufacturing platform to eliminate this constraint.

Allonic is reinventing robot manufacturing. Traditional assembly with screws, joints, and delicate parts remains slow and costly.

It's 3D Tissue Braiding that automates production by weaving robotic tendons, joints, and soft tissues over a skeletal core in one continuous process. This creates strong, compliant, and safe robotic bodies while eliminating common failure points. Allonic is the only company globally using this approach.

Allonic’s platform automates the full path from digital design to robotic bodies. High-level designs are translated into production code, allowing multiple materials, elastics, wiring, and sensors to be embedded directly during fabrication.

By collapsing mechanical complexity, production time and costs drop dramatically: what once took weeks and thousands of dollars can now be done in minutes. This enables on-demand manufacturing and easy replacement of manipulators, making customized robotic hardware economically viable for the first time.

Since unveiling its technology in May 2025, Allonic has completed its first pilot in electronics manufacturing, targeting tasks where traditional industrial robots lack versatility and fully generalized platforms remain impractical or costly.

Strong interest from humanoid robotics and major US tech companies highlights industry recognition that scaling complex hardware is the next frontier.

Benedek Tasi, Co-Founder & CEO, explains that hardware trade-offs, durability vs. softness, dexterity vs. strength, have always been limited by manufacturing. Allonic’s platform removes those constraints, enabling rapid design, build, and iteration. By shrinking the timeline from weeks to minutes, entirely new classes of robots become possible.

Allonic has assembled a 15-strong team of engineers across robotics, materials science, and computational software, rarely combined in a single company.

Marton Sarkadi Nagy, Partner at Visionaries Club, notes that slow hardware manufacturing now limits AI-driven robotics. Allonic addresses this at the infrastructure level, enabling faster iteration, lower costs, and robots beyond narrow industrial uses.

The new funding will accelerate development of the 3D Tissue Braiding platform, expand engineering and operations teams, and support pilots and early commercial deployments.