Explore the Robotics Factory Accelerate Program: Empowering Robotics Startups in Pittsburgh

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Program Description

Selected startups—up to six pre-seed companies—will receive up to $100,000 in funding, access to the Robotics Factory’s state-of-the-art co-working and production-grade prototyping space, and tailored mentorship from seasoned professionals in robotics and business. Participants benefit from an immersive program covering essentials like customer and market fit, scaling a hardware business, manufacturing at scale, and designing for production. Unique to this program, founders engage regularly with a dedicated team of experts committed to their success.

Past participants highlight the program’s unparalleled value. Candice Caputo, COO at Humotech, credits the Robotics Factory for refining their processes, manufacturing scalability, and investment readiness. "The program’s support has been pivotal in bringing our innovative clinical application to market," she shared.

Program Features

1:1 Mentorship with seasoned startup leaders via the Pittsburgh robotics network

12 months of office space at the robotics factory in lawrenceville, pittsburgh with access to an expansive prototyping workshop and robotics testing shop

product development resources including manufacturing bootcamp, product design reviews, and manufacturing toolkit templates, one-on-one manufacturing office hours

1:1 business coaching with the innovation works program team to help you achieve your specific milestones, with little/no "mandatory" programming

Current Cohort

Reclamation Factory is building the future of a distributed circular economy for plastics.

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Humotech provides a wearable robotics platform (Caplex™) that enables researchers and developers to rapidly iterate on and evaluate different approaches to assisting human mobility.

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Journey Robotics builds aviation automation solutions to improve the safety and efficiency of airport & airline operations.

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ForSight Assistive Devices is a company dedicated to creating products to assist the visually impaired.

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HeadStrait Labs is a female-led medical device company developing a new technology to improve patient outcomes during prehospital care and ambulance transportation.

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