Neuracore Secures $3M To Power Next-gen Robots And Open Robotics Research

Founded in 2024 by Stephen James, Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London, Neuracore is developing infrastructure to support the next generation of intelligent robots. Its platform enables robotics teams to move from data collection to deploying machine learning models in days rather than months, removing bottlenecks that can consume up to 80% of engineering time.

Neuracore’s unified, cloud-based software stack replaces fragmented robotics setups, managing asynchronous data collection, visualization, training, and deployment in a single platform. By streamlining the full robot learning pipeline, the platform allows teams to focus on development and experimentation rather than infrastructure.

The platform is already adopted by over 50 organizations across commercial and academic robotics, including partnerships with leading hardware manufacturers.

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Commenting on the investment, Stephen James, founder and CEO, highlighted that his experience in academic and industrial robotics showed teams from research groups to warehouse automation startups were often rebuilding similar infrastructure from scratch.

Our mission is to eliminate that duplication and democratize access to high-performance robot learning tools. With this funding and our free academic program, we’re enabling both researchers and companies to focus on advancing robotics itself, not on building the pipelines to support it.

Alongside the funding, Neuracore is launching a free academic program, granting universities and research institutions worldwide full access to its enterprise platform the same infrastructure used by its commercial customers.

Academic researchers are building the foundation for tomorrow’s robots. They shouldn’t waste months setting up data pipelines - they should be innovating. We want Neuracore to be the backbone that lets them do that. James added.

The initiative aims to close the accessibility gap between research and industry by giving universities and robotics labs free, unlimited use of the platform, enabling faster experimentation, collaboration, and reproducibility across institutions.

The new funding will accelerate product development, expand the engineering team, and support Neuracore’s broader growth, including scaling its open-source robot learning community.

About Neuracore

Neuracore is building a cloud platform for robot learning, helping robotics teams collect data, train AI models, and deploy solutions rapidly. The company also provides strategic AI and robotics consulting, bridging academic expertise with industry innovation to accelerate development, streamline operations, and enable faster experimentation across research and commercial robotics teams.