Jacobi Robotics
About
About Jacobi Robotics
Jacobi Robotics replaces manually taught industrial-arm waypoints with real-time motion planning. Its library computes time-optimised, collision-free, singularity-free and jerk-limited trajectories in milliseconds, then executes them through supported ABB, FANUC, KUKA, Universal Robots and Yaskawa controllers. Studio creates the cell's digital twin, tests reachability and cycle time, and lets integrators reconfigure geometry before commissioning hardware.
Packaged applications cover palletising and random depalletising, while CAD-derived paths support welding, dispensing and gluing. Vision feedback and reinforcement learning extend the system to mixed cases and changing scenes. Applications run on an industrial PC and connect to sensors, PLCs, HMIs and external axes, with cloud or on-premises APIs in Python and C++. Remote monitoring reproduces robot state and motion for troubleshooting, reducing site visits when patterns, stock-keeping units or cell layouts change.
Articles
Deployments
- Customer site
2026-01-13 - Jacobi Robotics documents a mixed-case palletizing deployment at Delta Technology using Jacobi software and a FANUC robot cell. - Jacobi mixed-case palletizing deployment - Delta Technology mixed-case palletizing cell
Source
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Formic
Outbound - Software - Jacobi Robotics supplies AI-assisted robotic-cell programming software for Formic robotic automation deployments
Source - Delta Technology
Outbound - Manufacturing - Jacobi Robotics supplies OmniPalletizer software integrated by Delta Technology in its mixed-case palletizing cell
Source
Funding
- 2024-07-11 - Seed - $5M - Jacobi Robotics raises $5 million seed round
source: jacobirobotics.com
Investors
- Berkeley SkyDeck Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- Courtyard Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- Foothill Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- Humba Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- LDV Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- Moxxie Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- Swift Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
- The House Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-07-11
Team
- Arno Strotgen - VP, Head of Business Development - Strotgen leads business development for Jacobi Robotics with industrial robotics service and platform experience from ABB Robotics.
- Jeff Ichnowski - Co-founder / Chief Roboticist - Ichnowski contributes robotics research depth to Jacobi Robotics motion-planning and manipulation software.
- Ken Goldberg - Co-founder / Chief Scientist - Goldberg provides robotics research leadership for Jacobi Robotics manipulation and motion-planning software.
- Lars Berscheid - Co-founder / Chief Architect - Berscheid architects Jacobi Robotics motion-planning software used for industrial robot applications.
- Yahav Avigal - Co-founder / CTO - Avigal leads technical work on Jacobi Robotics motion-planning and robot-manipulation software.
- Max Cao - Co-founder / CEO - Cao leads Jacobi Robotics as it builds motion-planning and robot-manipulation software for industrial automation.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-04-16 - Partnership - Jacobi Robotics partners with Peak Technologies on mixed-case palletizing
The combined offer targets retail, grocery, beverage, FMCG, parcel and third-party logistics facilities. Peak provides systems engineering, on-site integration and lifecycle support around Jacobi's motion-planning and pallet-building software. The partners position the system for brownfield sites without upstream buffering, sorting or sequencing changes.
Source - 2026-04-13 - Partnership - FORTNA adds Jacobi OmniPalletizer to mixed-case automation portfolio
The partnership gives FORTNA a software-defined mixed-case palletizing offer for existing warehouse and distribution-centre workflows. OmniPalletizer is designed to work without upstream case sequencing, buffering or sorting infrastructure. FORTNA contributes system design, integration and lifecycle support for customer deployments.
Source - 2026-04-08 - Partnership - Jacobi Robotics signs collaboration with ABB Robotics to bring AI-powered palletizing to ABB's integrator network
ABB Robotics will integrate Jacobi's OmniPalletizer AI software into its robotics hardware and software portfolio. The collaboration gives ABB's integrator network a productized path to mixed-case palletizing without upstream sequencing infrastructure, facility redesign, or custom engineering. The agreement is a real integration partnership, but the announcement does not disclose deployment scale, customer volume, or financial terms.
Source - 2026-01-13 - Deployment - Delta Technology deploys mixed-case palletizing cell with Jacobi Robotics and FANUC
A defense manufacturer partnered with Delta Technology to deploy a robotic mixed-case palletizing cell. The cell uses Jacobi Robotics OmniPalletizer and a FANUC M-710iC/45M industrial robot. The case study describes the deployment as a live production operation commissioned in Q4 2025.
Source - 2025-10-16 - Partnership - Jacobi Robotics wins DHL Fast Forward Challenge and begins innovation partnership exploration
The DHL Fast Forward Challenge award gives Jacobi Robotics a route to explore a joint pilot in the Americas. DHL’s Innovation team will support the next phase of Jacobi’s mixed-case palletizing work. The challenge connects the system with DHL supply-chain sites for pilot design and operational evaluation.
Source - 2025-03-06 - Partnership - Photoneo and Jacobi Robotics partner to deliver AI-powered robotic automation for warehouses
The combined system pairs Photoneo PhoXi 3D scanners with Jacobi Robotics motion-planning software. A live mixed-palletizing demonstration was scheduled for ProMat 2025 in Chicago. The integration targets palletizing and depalletizing of single and mixed SKUs, including roll cages and Gaylords.
Source - 2024-07-11 - Funding - Jacobi Robotics raises $5 million seed round
Moxxie Ventures led; Foothill Ventures, Humba Ventures, The House Fund and four returning backers participated. The financing is intended to expand Jacobi's capacity to meet initial and new demand. Jacobi also made its motion-planning platform and Jacobi Palletizer available alongside the financing.
Source - 2024-01-25 - Partnership - Jacobi Robotics and Formic team up to simplify robot deployment for manufacturers
Jacobi Robotics and Formic announced a collaboration to speed robotic cell configuration using AI. The partnership combines Jacobi's motion planning and programming stack with Formic's deployment model for manufacturers. The agreement is aimed at reducing deployment friction for industrial robotic automation in production settings.
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Relations
Relationships
- ABB Robotics
Technology Partner - ABB Robotics integrates Jacobi's OmniPalletizer AI into its robotics portfolio for ABB's integrator network in mixed-case palletizing.
- Peak Technologies
Integration Partner - Peak Technologies partnered with Jacobi Robotics to deliver and support turnkey OmniPalletizer systems.
- Photoneo
Mixed Case Palletizing Integration - Photoneo MotionCam-3D vision and Jacobi OmniPalletizer operate together in Delta Technology's mixed-case palletizing cell.
- DHL
Deployment Partner - Jacobi won DHL's Fast Forward Challenge with a pathway to explore a joint pilot in the Americas and support from DHL's Innovation team.
Context
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Shared workflows
- ROAI
workflow adjacency - Robot Motion Planning
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workflow adjacency - Robot Motion Planning
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Context tags
- Robot-learning infrastructure stack - Stack Layer
- Robot foundation model developer - Peer Group
- Robot motion planning AI - Peer Group
- Robot motion planning - Workflow
- Robot motion planning layer - Stack Layer

