O-ID
O-ID designs and builds modular humanoid robots for industrial work, featuring hand-swappable modules that can be reconfigured or serviced on the factory floor without tools. The platform targets manufacturing, logistics, and hazardous inspection tasks, with plug-and-play deployment aimed at mitigating acute labor shortages.
- Robotics
- Industrial Automation
- Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
- Logistics & Supply Chain
- Hardware
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
Funding
Raised to date
$1.2MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 1 round
FO$1.2M · Pre-Seed
Announced Sep 2026 · from article date
Disclosed cumulative: $1.2M
Founders
Product
Problem
Industries face critical labor shortages—Japan alone is three million workers short today and projected to be eleven million short by 2040—while manufacturing, logistics, and inspection tasks increasingly require automation in environments that are dangerous, hazardous, or confined. Existing robotic solutions often demand complex integration, specialized maintenance, and inflexible hardware that cannot adapt to changing operational needs.
Solution
O-ID provides modular humanoid robots engineered for immediate deployment and long-term adaptability. The platform features a single body with interchangeable modules for the head, torso core, shoulders, elbows, forearms, dexterous grippers, and a holonomic base, enabling users to reconfigure the robot for different tasks on the fly. Modules are designed to be swapped by hand, allowing anyone to service or customize the system anywhere without specialized training or tools. The robots ship plug-and-play with no integration required, supporting assembly and line-side handling, case picking and transfer, and industrial inspection in spaces where human presence is unsafe. With indicative specifications of 172 cm height, 70 kg weight, nine or more modular components, and high payload and degrees of freedom, the platform emphasizes uptime and operational readiness. Built with deep hardware heritage by a compact engineering team, O-ID positions itself as a made-in-Japan solution built for global industrial demand.
Target Audience
Primary customers are manufacturing plants, logistics and warehouse operators, and industrial inspection teams that require adaptable, deployable robotic automation to address labor shortages and hazardous environment operations.
Features
- Fully modular architecture with swappable components including head, torso core, shoulder, elbow, forearm, dexterous gripper, and holonomic base
- Hand-swappable modules enabling configuration and servicing by anyone, anywhere, without special tools
- Plug-and-play deployment with no integration required across manufacturing, logistics, and inspection workflows
- Holonomic base for agile mobility in warehouse and factory floor environments
- Designed for dangerous, hazardous, and confined-space inspection tasks where human operation is unsafe
- Indicative platform specs: 172 cm height, 70 kg weight, 9+ modules, with full datasheet available on request