Ubitium Raises $14 Mn in Seed Funding to Develop a Universal Processor for Physical AI

The funding round was led by Ibex Investors, with participation from OpenOcean and existing investors KBC Focus Fund, Runa Capital, and Inflection. Florian Seibel, co-founder and co-CEO of Quantum Systems, also invested in the company personally.

Commenting on the challenges of developing processors for physical AI, Hyun Shin Cho, CEO and co-founder of Ubitium, said: "Physical AI machines bring a whole new set of computing challenges, and the inference isn't the hardest one. Sensing the real world and controlling the machine in it are just as hard, and today those still run on separate chips. We built one Physical AI processor that does all three, proved it in silicon in a year, and this funding turns it into a product."

Ubitium is developing a processor for physical AI applications, including robots, drones, vehicles, and industrial machines. These machines need to collect data from sensors, make decisions, and control their movements in real time.

Today, these tasks are often handled by different specialised processors. This means data must move between multiple chips, making systems more complex to build and operate.

Ubitium aims to solve this problem by developing a flexible processor that can handle these tasks within a single system. This could help reduce the need for separate chips and simplify the design of AI-powered machines.

The processor can adjust how it uses its computing power based on what a machine needs to do. It can allocate resources to process sensor data, run AI models, or control movements in real time, depending on the task.

Ubitium will use the new funding to prepare its UB410 processor for commercial launch. The company plans to finalise the chip's design and produce evaluation units for testing in 2027.

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