Pleasanton, California. March 4, 2025
Mantis Robotics, a pioneer in Physical AI for robotic automation, today announced that it has secured new venture funding from ABICO Group (Taiwan).
With labor costs rising, ABICO Group sees tremendous potential in the robotics sector and plans to distribute Mantis’ fenceless industrial robotic arms in Taiwan and Japan. The company aims to support factory automation while ensuring a safer and more efficient work environment for employees. As part of this strategic investment, Mantis Robotics will ramp up its mass production capability with Abico Enterprise as a strategic contract manufacturing partner. Details of the partnership are currently under discussion.
Based in Silicon Valley, Mantis Robotics is a trailblazer in Physical AI, focusing on next-generation, human-centered industrial robots and automation solutions. With highly interactive software-driven innovations and proprietary safety-rated sensing and motion control technologies, Mantis Robotics overcomes costly and labor-intensive barriers in the automation industry, making robotic applications more accessible.
The company’s founding team comprises industry experts from leading American and Japanese industrial robotics firms and top Silicon Valley tech giants, bringing deep expertise in robotics development and commercialization.
Mantis’ technology learns and understands its environment based on sensor data from a proprietary built-in sensor suite. This enables Mantis robots to detect obstacles and humans in their direct environment and adjust the robot’s behavior accordingly in real-time, making robot arms safe and autonomous, thus ensuring operational safety and protecting people from workplace hazards. Safe out-of-the-box, Mantis robots can be deployed with the same footprint as a human operator, enabling automation without disrupting facility infrastructure, while guaranteeing the highest output for the available space.
Additionally, unlike traditional industrial robotic arms that require programming by robotics engineers—which increases operational costs—Mantis Robotics’ AI-powered software integrates 3D digital twin technology and auto code generation, enabling anyone to transform ideas into automation solutions without prior programming experience.
Mantis Robotics aims to expand robotics applications across diverse industries by simplifying robot operation and reducing technical complexity, marking the beginning of a new era of human-robot collaboration. The company’s technology is agnostic to robot form factor and can be used on any type of robot, including humanoid and service robots.
About ABICO Group
ABICO Group comprises multiple publicly listed companies, with Abico AVY (5392.TWO), Ability Enterprise (2374.TW), and IKKA-KY (2250.TW) serving as the core of its business development. In recent years, beyond its focus on the new energy vehicle industry, ABICO Group has rapidly expanded into the robotics sector in response to the AI revolution.
Abico AVY’s own IKKA Precision, a leader in powder metallurgy and precision transmission modules for electric tools and machinery, has been manufacturing and assembling collaborative robotic components since 2022.
Ability Enterprise (2374.TW) specializes in imaging-related products, achieving significant milestones in 360-degree cameras, automotive lenses, and edge AI optical lenses. Recently, the company has also ventured into robotics-related imaging solutions.
About Mantis Robotics
Mantis Robotics is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, and was founded by robotics industry veterans, with offices in Belgium and Taiwan. The company has developed a hardware and software platform designed for efficient and safe human-robot collaboration in manufacturing and e-commerce fulfillment.
Its fenceless autonomous robotic arm, Mantis MR-1, equipped with spatial intelligence technology, offers a plug-and-play solution that eliminates the need for complex robotic work cell designs while reducing robot automation costs by up to 75%.
