With swarms of connected cockroaches, Swarm Biotactics has intends to produce a relay relay of living insects in a denied environment. This promise at the intersection of biology and robotics has just attracted several international investors who put 10 million euros in seed to cross the laboratory to the field.
When living becomes a robot
The German biotactics of the Swarm Swarm, which was founded in 2024 in Kassel, develops bio-robotic technology, where insects, especially cockroaches, are equipped with microinternations, allowing them to remotely manage, collect data and communicate with their operator. These miniature “backpacks” include sensors, secure communication modules and artificial intelligence on board to ensure autonomous navigation in an extreme environment.
Conversely, classic robotic dogmas focus on the internal properties of the living, namely robustness, the ability to evolve in complex environments, marginal cost of production and natural camouflage.
Based on living things, rather than on fully artificial reagents, it challenges the boundary between nature and technology. Where robots try to reproduce biological functions, startup makes the opposite bet by increasing life by grafting programmable autonomy. The approach that takes terrain restrictions rather than trying to dominate them and which builds organic on the algorithmic service in the logic of distributed resistance.
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Estimated location with dual use
The company focuses on defense, civic security, industrial inspection industry as a priority with a clear location on the use of duals (civil and military). It plans to cooperate with European and North American government agencies for pilot deployment on Earth, especially in connection with natural disasters, electronic war areas or recognition in urban areas.
Among the estimated cases of use: recognition in a mined or contaminated environment, support for tactical bait operations, electronic war relays or discreet urban map using neuro-oirigned swarms. The aim is to allow massive employment of autonomous units that is able to act in a swarm while remaining sufficiently cheap to be considered “lost”. The logic of the operating award, which is part of the developing doctrines of projection under pressure.
Architecture Expected by Swarm Biotactics provides a double string of the command using a decentralized interface on the ground that allows operators to assign missions placed on the unit, and strategic control organized from the central column capable of piloting entire groups based on planned scenarios. This model of swarm intelligence allows complicated agents interaction without using the fully automation of critical decisions.
From deep technology to surgical doctrine
SWARM BIOTACTICS plans to use resources obtained for:
- industrialize their nerve sensors and interfaces;
- Establish engineering and marketing nodes in Europe and the United States;
- Recruitment of neurobiology experts, field robotics and systems on board;
- Above all, run the first operating demonstrators with strategic partners in the public sector.
The Approach is inspired by the doctrinal model Developed in the United States AS part of Programs Such As Replicator, Betting on SWARMS of heterogeneous and Complementary Robots, Operating on the Outskirts of Human Units Logistics, neutralization, etc. Interoperability IS and Major Challenge, As Well AS Securing Communications: Cybersecurity is Designed from the Design (“Security by Architecture”) to avoid capturing or changing in a blurry environment.
This type of system also requires a new operational culture to release operators for fear of “loss of equipment” and assuming that loss as an integral part of the strategy. For which it is necessary to bring doctrine, where matter, attribution and dexterity take precedence over uniform sophistication.
Strategic lifting for an emerging category
This table of 10 million euros was led by Vetex Ventures USA and possible businesses with the participation of the Capnamic of the German Fund. Several historical investors also strengthened their position. This lifting brings the company’s total financing to 13 million euros, including a preliminary sowing of EUR 3 million.
The Swarm Biotactics was founded in 2024 by Stefan Wilhelm (CEO) and Moritz Strube (CTO). The company is located in Germany Kassel with a subsidiary of San Francisco.n
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