AICA closes a 2.35 CHF million investment round bringing real-time intelligence to industrial control
14.04.2025
AICA, a Swiss innovator transforming industrial automation with Al-powered force adaptation technology, has secured a strategic investment led by Momenta, the leading venture capital firm specializing in Industrial Impact®. This investment, made through Momenta's Industry 5.0 Fund, will propel AICA's global expansion and enhance its Al-driven automation capabilities. Existing investors Spicehaus, HTGF, and Schaeffler have reaffirmed their confidence in AICA by participating in this round, which was also joined by Zürcher Kantonalbank.
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Robotics programming is complex and costly, often doubling hardware costs. AICA System integrates Al with real-time, sensor-driven control to simplify deployment and reduce development costs. Used by industry leaders like Schaeffler, it enables tasks like assembly, polishing, and battery disassembly.
Industrial robotics has long been limited by poor communication interfaces and the lack of standardized programming. As a result, most applications remain restricted to simple pick-and-place tasks. AICA revolutionizes this space with a real-time control framework that seamlessly integrates impedance control, motion generation, and force compliance, making advanced robotics more accessible.
Al is the future of industrial automation, enabling robots to learn tasks instead of being manually programmed. While simulation platforms like Nvidia Omniverse train thousands of agents, deploying these learned models onto real hardware remains a challenge due to the absence of control standards. AICA bridges this gap by providing a universal control framework that ensures safe, real-time adaptation of Al-trained robotic systems, bringing Al-driven intelligence to industrial robotics.
Automation is transforming every industry, and AICA is at the forefront of this shift. While the company has gained strong traction in the automotive industry, the AICA System is simultaneously hardware, industry, and application agnostic, enabling flexible automation across diverse use cases. For example, in the LAMBDA Project, a Eurostars-backed initiative, AICA applies its expertise to the automated disassembly of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, driving smarter resource recovery and strengthening circular economy efforts in the EV supply chain. Furthermore, in the life sciences and chemical industries, AICA is also seeing a strong appetite for more flexible and autonomous laboratory automation.
AICA's rapid growth is led by Baptiste Busch, Co-founder and CEO, a PhD in Robotics and Machine Learning, and Enrico Eberhard, Co-founder and CTO, a PhD in Control with previous experience in software development for robotics. Both are recognized leaders in Al-driven automation. Their combined expertise in advanced control systems and machine learning has successfully translated cutting-edge research into scalable industrial solutions, attracting major industry players to AICA's mission.
The Robotics company has won Venture Kick and has been ranked among the TOP 100 Swiss Startups.
AICA's team
Industrial robotics has long been limited by poor communication interfaces and the lack of standardized programming. As a result, most applications remain restricted to simple pick-and-place tasks. AICA revolutionizes this space with a real-time control framework that seamlessly integrates impedance control, motion generation, and force compliance, making advanced robotics more accessible.
Al is the future of industrial automation, enabling robots to learn tasks instead of being manually programmed. While simulation platforms like Nvidia Omniverse train thousands of agents, deploying these learned models onto real hardware remains a challenge due to the absence of control standards. AICA bridges this gap by providing a universal control framework that ensures safe, real-time adaptation of Al-trained robotic systems, bringing Al-driven intelligence to industrial robotics.
Automation is transforming every industry, and AICA is at the forefront of this shift. While the company has gained strong traction in the automotive industry, the AICA System is simultaneously hardware, industry, and application agnostic, enabling flexible automation across diverse use cases. For example, in the LAMBDA Project, a Eurostars-backed initiative, AICA applies its expertise to the automated disassembly of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, driving smarter resource recovery and strengthening circular economy efforts in the EV supply chain. Furthermore, in the life sciences and chemical industries, AICA is also seeing a strong appetite for more flexible and autonomous laboratory automation.
AICA's rapid growth is led by Baptiste Busch, Co-founder and CEO, a PhD in Robotics and Machine Learning, and Enrico Eberhard, Co-founder and CTO, a PhD in Control with previous experience in software development for robotics. Both are recognized leaders in Al-driven automation. Their combined expertise in advanced control systems and machine learning has successfully translated cutting-edge research into scalable industrial solutions, attracting major industry players to AICA's mission.
The Robotics company has won Venture Kick and has been ranked among the TOP 100 Swiss Startups.
AICA's team