Post by AI World

A factory robot can pick the same item a million times without missing. Change the packaging, and a human has to reprogramme it from scratch. That is the bottleneck on most European factory floors. Not the robots. The software. Germany ranks fourth in the world for industrial robot density, behind only South Korea, Singapore and China. Yet most of that fleet still runs pre-programmed sequences. Reprogramming for a new product or layout often takes longer than installing the robot in the first place. Stuttgart-based Sereact builds the layer that fixes this. Cortex is a vision-language-action model that runs on third-party robots. The new model Cortex 2 adds a world model. The robot simulates actions against learned physics before moving, and updates in real time as the scene shifts. The $110 million Series B was led by Headline, with Bullhound Capital, daphni and Felix Capital joining. Creandum, Point Nine and Air Street Capital followed on. The capital is aimed to found Cortex 2 and the first US office in Boston. European data, European model, scaling into the American market rather than the European one. The Draghi pattern, in a single funding round. 👏 Congratulations to the team, including: Ralf Gulde, Marc Tuscher, Julian Meinke, Jörg Ziesmann, Lukas Greiner, Lukas Wagenblast, Khanh Quynh Nguyen, Khiem Nguyen Trong, Mathias Mantelli, Tom Walther, Jens Pommerening, Alessandro Pezzulo, Stefan Leis, Eric Hovan, Alfred Larsson, Jennifer Seitz and the rest of the Sereact team. 🔗 More AI-driven startups at AI World, link in profile. 📊 Sources: Sereact | Sifted | International Federation of Robotics | Draghi report | Crunchbase