Even though robotic intelligence has improved, manufacturing remains slow, costly, and constrained by outdated methods. Manually assembling parts results in complex, rigid systems that are difficult to customise. Allonic’s founders believe this manufacturing bottleneck, not AI, is now the main challenge for the robotics industry.
Its 3D Tissue Braiding process uses automated, continuous weaving rather than traditional assembly, enabling the fabrication of robotic limbs, joints, and tendons in a single step. This method creates strong, flexible, and safe robotic bodies, shortens production time, and eliminates design weaknesses.
The company has raised $7.2 million in a pre-seed round led by Visionaries Club, with support from Day One Capital, Prototype, SDAC Ventures, and TinyVC. This is the largest pre-seed investment ever in Hungary.
The funding will help Allonic scale up its 3D Tissue Braiding technology and grow its engineering and commercial teams.
Redefining what the physical layer of robotics can be
Allonic was started in Budapest by Benedek Jozsef Tasi, David Laszlo Pelyva, and David Hollo to let engineers turn digital ideas into working prototypes in minutes.
Tasi shares with TFN, “We started working on this problem at the university in Budapest. We were researching biomimetic robotic hands, trying to build something that could replicate the delicate dexterity of human hands. Yet the more anatomically correct we tried to make these hands, the more complex and expensive they became to make. We’d spend weeks assembling hundreds of tiny parts, including tendons, pulleys and ligaments, trying to build something inspired by biology but getting stuck with old manufacturing methods. That’s when we realised the real problem wasn’t the design, it was how we were making it.”
He adds, “At the same time, everyone’s talking about what robots can do with better software, but almost nobody is asking how we actually make the bodies that can do those things? We saw these two realisations as a massive opportunity. AI and perception are advancing incredibly fast, but the hardware is still stuck in the old assembly paradigm. We thought, if we could solve that, really solve it at an infrastructure level, we would unlock a new category of what’s possible in robotics.”
Allonic’s 3D Tissue Braiding platform combines its own manufacturing hardware with generative design software. The system turns robotic models into production-ready code, much like 3D printing software, and builds structures using fibres, elastics, and built-in wiring.
Allonic stands out by using continuous manufacturing to combine hundreds of parts into one structure. Its design, inspired by biological tissues, makes robots more durable without making them stiff. The company can also produce custom manipulators and limbs on demand from digital models, and it weaves sensors and wiring directly into the structure.
“Our process weaves structures in one continuous, automated process. Instead of assembling hundreds of individual components, such as bearings, screws, and cables, we’re forming tendons, joints, and load-bearing tissues directly over a skeletal core. What makes this powerful is that it collapses all of the complexity into the manufacturing process itself. You design something digitally, and our platform automatically translates it into production code. We can embed elastics, wiring and sensing elements, all in a single structure, all in one go,” Tasi elaborates.
Traditional robotic manufacturers like Schunk, Zimmer Group, or OnRobot focus on improving standard mechanical designs. Allonic, on the other hand, is changing how robots are made by automating their physical assembly rather than just their assembly.
What about diversity?
On diversity, Tasi notes, “Right now, we’re 15 people, which includes world-class engineers across robotics, materials science, and computational software, and the funding will help us hire further and wider. Half of our starting engineering team are incredible women, which is pretty unique in the field.”
What’s next?
After starting with pilot projects in electronics manufacturing, Allonic plans to run more industrial trials through 2026, focusing on industries that need flexible, safe robotic arms. The company is also in talks with major tech and humanoid robotics firms in the US about collaborating and licensing its technology.
Tasi concludes, “We want to be the manufacturing backbone for the entire robotics industry. Right now, hardware iteration is slow and expensive. We’re making it faster and cheaper. When you can go from idea to physical robot in minutes instead of weeks, you unlock entirely new design possibilities.”
