Bleu Robotics Raises €5Mn Pre-Seed to Make Industrial Humanoid Robots Faster to Deploy

The company will use the funding to expand its team and bring its software to more industries. Its goal is to reduce the time needed to deploy a humanoid robot in a factory to one hour or less.

According to the International Federation of Robotics, around five million industrial robots were operating worldwide in 2025. However, most traditional industrial robots are designed to perform repetitive tasks and cannot easily adapt to changing production needs. This means many complex tasks still require human workers.

Humanoid robots could help automate a wider range of tasks, but their adoption remains limited by software challenges. Many robots rely on AI models that need large amounts of training data and long training periods before they can work reliably in real-world settings. This makes deployment expensive and time-consuming for manufacturers.

Bleu Robotics aims to solve this problem with its AI technology, which helps robots learn new tasks with much less training. Instead of relying on a single complex AI model, the company uses an approach called abductive learning. This allows a robot to learn a task from as few as ten demonstrations by a human operator.

The technology helps robots understand what an operator wants them to do and how to complete the task reliably. Bleu says its approach can achieve more than 99% accuracy while keeping the robot's decision-making easier to understand, an important requirement for industrial safety.

The software can work with different humanoid robot platforms. Workers can teach robots new tasks directly at their workstations using special handheld training devices called grippers, without writing code. They can also retrain robots when production requirements change or move them to another facility.

By reducing the need for large training datasets and lengthy setup processes, Bleu Robotics aims to make humanoid robots easier and more affordable for manufacturers to deploy at scale.

Benoît Berkoukchi, co-founder of Bleu Robotics, said, “Humanoid robots in manufacturing are the next automotive sector, with the potential to help Europe and the US reshore production. But most robotics companies are trying to train humanoids with millions of data points and build fully general-purpose models. That approach isn’t suited to manufacturing. There isn’t enough data on factory work, and there won’t be internet-scale data, the kind LLMs were built on, for robots for a long time. Our methodology means we can do more with less.”

Thomas Poitrineau, Investor at Contrarian Ventures, said, “We were attracted to Bleu Robotics because of their ambitious choice to rethink how humanoid robotics software should work from first principles. It’s rare to find a company led by two world-class robotics researchers and a manufacturing expert, which is also why their software works differently from their competition. Their goal is far bigger than simply making the best model in a lab. It’s an approach that can already scale, putting robots to work in factories within months rather than years.”

Bleu Robotics was founded in Paris in December 2025 by Benoît Berkoukchi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Serena Ivaldi. Berkoukchi previously managed large teams working on automotive assembly lines at Renault. Mouret and Ivaldi are research directors at INRIA and have spent the past 15 years working in AI and robotics. They have published hundreds of scientific papers, including research in Nature, and organised major conferences on humanoid robotics.

Bleu Robotics is already working with two major industrial companies and building partnerships with robot distributors. As more robots use its technology in real-world settings, the company expects its software to become more reliable and faster to deploy. Its long-term goal is to become a leading software provider that helps manufacturers deploy and manage robots across their operations.

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