Intelligent robotics company Mujin has secured USD85 million in Series C funding to continue developing its controller platform for manufacturing, logistics and supply chain robots.

The funding round was led by SBI Investment in Japan, along with Pegasus Tech Ventures, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, 7 Industries from the Netherlands, corporate investor Accenture and angel investor Dr James Kuffner. 

Mujin plans to use the funding to enhance the accessibility of its intelligent robotics platform, the MujinController, which transforms industrial robots from any manufacturer into intelligent machines capable of automating a wide variety of applications across manufacturing and logistics.

Mujin says its technology has solved palletising and depalletising for both single and mixed SKU orders, precise picking to streamline e-commerce order fulfillment, metal bin picking for parts in the automotive segment, unlocked truck trailer and container unloading, as well as quick deployment of robot cells.

Company co-founder Dr Ross Diankov says: “The MujinController introduces a unique approach to creating robotics applications, leveraging a real-time non-volatile digital twin and offering a suite of perception, planning and control algorithms to digitise the real world and autonomously move robots and other industrial equipment through it.

“We are excited to continue our journey toward perfecting the MujinController and getting it into everyone’s hands.”

Mujin was founded in 2011 in Japan and now has offices in China and the United States.