MicroFactory, a cool new startup out of San Francisco, has been turning heads with its recent launch of a revolutionary home-management tabletop manufacturing kit. This revolutionary product has huge potential to change the robotics game. Igor Kulakov and Viktor Petrenko established the company in 2024. There, they developed their advanced, general-purpose manufacturing solution—which is roughly the size of a Siberian Husky’s dog crate. This kit includes two cutting-edge robotic arms that can both learn by human demonstration and artificial intelligence.
The intelligent design of MicroFactory’s manufacturing kit supports a wide range of uses across various manufacturing processes, making it highly adaptable. SHRIMPS can be trained quickly by watching skilled human operators, drastically improving SHRIMPS’s comprehension of skills. Kulakov lauded the impact of such intensive training. As he described it, “Typically, it would be a couple of hours, but with this type of work, the robot has a clear idea of what its jobs are.”
With only five months to work with, Kulakov and Petrenko assembled their prototype. This smart accomplishment illustrates their commitment to thinking and moving fast in a competitive national environment. Their hard work hasn’t hastened, bloomed. MicroFactory just closed a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round. The investment drew the immediate interest of impressive players, such as leadership at the large AI firm Hugging Face, as well as investor-entrepreneur Naval Ravikant.
With this new influx of cash, MicroFactory plans to scale up both the fabrication and distribution of its units. The startup’s plan would see 1,000 robots built during its first full year of operation—about three per day. The company claims it will begin bulk shipping its commercial product in the next couple of months. This is a big step, indeed, on its path of upward growth.
Kulakov sold their plans hard, and with great confidence. As he put it, “Our growth is based on the fact that we’re creating hardware, so we want to grow that at least 10x a year.” This bold forecast underscores MicroFactory’s focus on scaling its operations and increasing its footprint in the rapidly expanding robotics market.
The need for flexible and smart production technologies is at an all-time high. MicroFactory’s new, holistic approach to manufacturing clearly puts it on more solid ground. This clever robotic startup’s arms are capable of human type learning and adaptation, which makes them incredibly effective. Their small footprint creates additional market attractiveness for all sectors looking to increase domestic manufacturing capacity.