Shifters
About
About Shifters
Shifters develops collaborative autonomy for teams of ground robots operating across difficult terrain. Its software combines local perception, navigation and mission coordination so several machines can spread through an area, avoid obstacles and adapt their routes while carrying cameras, communications or other payloads. The architecture is intended to work across different underlying vehicle designs.
An operator assigns the mission at team level, and the autonomy stack distributes movement and task execution across the platforms. Individual robots execute local movement and share useful observations with the group, allowing the fleet to continue when communications are intermittent. Shifters is developing the system for defence, emergency response and hazardous inspection and remains at an early deployment stage.
Articles
Funding
- 2026-06-03 - Seed - $10.2M - Shifters raises $10.2 million seed round for autonomous ground robot teams
Shifters raised $10.2M seed led by Ace Capital Partners, bringing total disclosed funding above $15M for AI-native ground robotic teams. - source: finance.yahoo.com
Investors
- Ace Capital Partners - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
- Arkin Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
- Aurelius Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
- Corner Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
- Fresh Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
- STEP - Unmanned Innovation - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
Team
- Ofer Balin - CEO and Co-founder - Leads Shifters as it brings RITA, ARENA and TRUST into field-tested ground autonomy workflows.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-06-15 - Product Launch - Shifters debuts RITA, ARENA and TRUST ground-autonomy stack at Eurosatory
Shifters announced its Eurosatory 2026 debut for an AI-native ground-autonomy product ecosystem. RITA serves as the operator-command layer, ARENA coordinates robotic-team navigation and execution, and TRUST provides the rugged ground robot platform. The company said the ecosystem is being field-tested as it advances toward operational deployment.
Source - 2026-06-03 - Funding - Shifters raises $10.2 million seed round for autonomous ground robot teams
Shifters raised a $10.2 million seed round led by Ace Capital Partners, bringing disclosed total funding to more than $15 million. The company is building autonomous robotic teams for dangerous ground missions in complex and high-risk environments. The funding supports Shifters' "robots go first" mission for defense, security, ISR, tunnels, rubble, hazardous areas, and other environments where mobility and autonomous decision-making are critical.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Deep Tech Momentum
Partner - Shifters and Deep Tech Momentum have a public partnership focused on autonomous operations in challenging environments.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Overland AI
stack adjacency - Offroad Defence Autonomy Stack
- Supacat
stack adjacency - Offroad Defence Autonomy Stack
- Kova Labs
stack adjacency - Offroad Defence Autonomy Stack
- Carnegie Robotics
stack adjacency - Offroad Defence Autonomy Stack
Context tags
- Autonomous ground-vehicle ecosystem - Stack Layer - RITA/ARENA/TRUST are ground robotic team products.
- Off-road defence autonomy stack - Stack Layer - The product ecosystem supports supervised ground autonomy in dangerous terrain.
- Tactical ground robot OEM - Stack Layer - TRUST is a rugged ground robot for dangerous environments.