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An $81 million seed round for Italian startup Generative Bionics puts capital behind Gene.01, a humanoid robot wrapped in sensor-filled skin designed to detect nearby workers before physical contact occurs.
CDP Venture Capital led the round; AMD Ventures, Duferco, Eni Next, RoboIT, and Tether participated.
The company's Physical AI methodology draws from peer-reviewed work on a human-aware robot called ergoCub, published in Nature Machine Intelligence on July 13, 2026.
The sensor system on Gene.01 Gene.01 carries distributed sensors across its torso and limbs. The system reads touch, temperature, proximity, and force at the same time.
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