Freedom Robotics
About
About Freedom Robotics
Freedom Robotics built an operating layer that ran partly on each robot and partly in the cloud. Its on-device software collected telemetry, executed commands and maintained connectivity, while web tools provided fleet health, logs, alerts, remote control and replay. Robotics teams could add those functions to different hardware and software stacks instead of building a separate monitoring and support system for every product.
The platform covered the transition from development into field operation. Engineers used remote access and historical data to diagnose failures, operations teams watched deployed units and support staff could teleoperate a robot when autonomy encountered an exception. APIs connected the service to internal applications and allowed actions to be triggered from fleet events. Freedom Robotics therefore supplied shared infrastructure beneath the customer’s application rather than a robot or autonomy model of its own, helping small teams manage geographically distributed machines through one control plane.
Funding
- 2019-07-23 - Seed - $6.6M - Freedom Robotics closes $6.6 million Seed round
Freedom Robotics closed a $6.6 million Seed round to develop cloud and on-device infrastructure for operating robot fleets. - source: globenewswire.com
Investors
- Initialized Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-07-23
- Liquid 2 Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-07-23
- S28 Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-07-23
- Toyota AI Ventures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2019-07-23
Timeline
Events
- 2019-07-23 - Funding - Freedom Robotics closes $6.6 million Seed round
Initialized Capital led the round. Toyota AI Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures and S28 Capital participated. The platform supported monitoring, control and fleet analytics.
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