# Oversonic Robotics

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**Oversonic Robotics** is an Italian company, founded in 2020 and based in Carate Brianza ([Lombardy](/wiki/lombardy)), that builds cognitive [humanoid robot](/wiki/humanoid_robot)s powered by [artificial intelligence](/wiki/artificial_intelligence). Its flagship product, [RoBee](/wiki/robee), is marketed as the only humanoid robot currently certified for both the industrial and medical (healthcare) sectors, and in December 2025 it became the first cognitive humanoid to be deployed operationally inside a semiconductor plant when [STMicroelectronics](/wiki/stmicroelectronics) signed a supply agreement covering several of its fabs.[1][2][7] Oversonic positions itself as a software-first business, treating the humanoid as a delivery surface for a modular [cognitive robotics](/wiki/cognitive_robotics) platform that it calls the Cognitive Platform.[1][16]

## What is Oversonic Robotics?

Oversonic Robotics is a privately held Italian robotics company headquartered in Carate Brianza, in the Brianza area north of [Milan](/wiki/milan), with additional sites in Milan, Rovereto ([Trentino](/wiki/trentino)), and the United States.[1][2] It was founded in 2020 by Fabio Puglia and Paolo Denti and develops the [RoBee](/wiki/robee) cognitive humanoid robot together with the AI software stack that runs it. The company describes itself as "the first Italian-based robotics company that makes AI-optimized humanoid robots," and RoBee is presented as "the first cognitive humanoid robot Made in Italy to enter the market."[9][1] By mid-2026 the team numbered roughly 70 people, about thirty of them engineers covering computer science, mechanical, and electronic engineering.[3][7]

## History

Oversonic Robotics was founded in 2020 in Besana Brianza, in the Brianza area north of Milan. Fabio Puglia, the president, holds a degree in Physics and Mathematics (Astrophysics) from the University of Milan and earlier founded ISC, a Carate Brianza heat-recovery company he presented at a NASA-organized ICT congress in Pasadena. Paolo Denti, the chief executive, graduated in Economic Statistics at the University of Padua and earned a Master's in International Marketing and Sales in Scotland. Before Oversonic he held senior roles at Benetton Sportsystem USA, Nordica and the Tecnica Group, and served as chief executive of Thun SpA from 2008 to 2018. The two met in 2019, and their combined background in robotics and industrial management became the foundation for the company.[2][3]

The business was originally set up as a software company specializing in cognitive computing for robotics, with explicit emphasis on culture and empathy in [human-robot interaction](/wiki/human-robot_interaction). That software-first identity has shaped product decisions since. In 2022 the company adopted Benefit Company status under Italian law, which requires the firm to pursue specified public benefit goals alongside profit.[1][4]

The [RoBee](/wiki/robee) humanoid entered the market in 2023 and was promoted as the first humanoid robot certified to operate in manufacturing facilities under an Industry 5.0 model. By the end of that year Oversonic had closed a Series A round and brought in Datalogic, a Milan-listed industrial automation company, as a strategic shareholder. In November 2024 CB Insights named the company among the 13 "Leading Public Players in Humanoid Robotics" in its annual Tech Trends report, and LinkedIn included it on the 2024 Italian Top Startups list.[2][5][6]

In 2025 Oversonic partnered with SolidWorld Group, a listed Italian provider of 3D engineering technologies, for global distribution of RoBee. Later in 2025 the company signed a supply agreement with [STMicroelectronics](/wiki/stmicroelectronics) for custom RoBee humanoids in production and logistics at several ST plants worldwide. The first unit was deployed inside ST's advanced packaging and test facility in Malta, described as the first operational integration of cognitive humanoid robots in the semiconductor industry.[7][8]

In January 2026 Oversonic launched RoBee in the United States and used CES 2026 in Las Vegas as the international debut of the platform, showing the medical version inside the Intel pavilion and the industrial version in the STMicroelectronics exhibition area. The company also confirmed plans for a production line at the former Maserati industrial complex in Grugliasco, near Turin, targeting annual output of 5,000 robots once fully ramped.[9][10][11]

On 23 June 2026 Oversonic announced that [STMicroelectronics](/wiki/stmicroelectronics), Fondazione ENEA Tech Biomedical, and SpotInvest (the investment vehicle of entrepreneur Marco Setti) had acquired stakes in the company to accelerate its industrial, technological, and international development. The round was framed as deepening the ST relationship beyond the earlier supply agreement and reinforcing Oversonic's expansion in the United States. "The entry of new shareholders represents an important step in Oversonic's growth path," Fabio Puglia and Paolo Denti said in a joint statement; "we are building an ecosystem capable of generating mutual value between technology, industry, and concrete applications."[18]

## Who founded Oversonic Robotics?

Oversonic was founded in 2020 by Fabio Puglia and Paolo Denti, who met in 2019. Puglia, an astrophysicist and serial entrepreneur, serves as chairman (president), while Denti, the former chief executive of the Italian retail brand Thun, serves as chief executive officer.[1][3][12]

| Person | Role | Background |
|--------|------|-----------|
| [Fabio Puglia](/wiki/fabio_puglia) | President and co-founder | Physics and Mathematics (Astrophysics), University of Milan. Earlier ventures included ISC in Carate Brianza and international projects in water management and energy. |
| [Paolo Denti](/wiki/paolo_denti) | CEO and co-founder | Economic Statistics, University of Padua; Master's in International Marketing and Sales (Scotland). Former CEO of Thun SpA (2008-2018), executive at Benetton Sportsystem USA, general manager of Nordica, board member at Tecnica Group. |

The founding shareholders retain a controlling stake of roughly 70 percent. Other investors include Fintel (the Bulgarelli family vehicle), Giancarlo Locatelli (CEO of the Cosma group), and Datalogic.[7][12]

## How is Oversonic funded?

Oversonic has gone through a sequence of private rounds rather than one large raise. Crunchbase lists multiple disclosed rounds, including a Series A of about 5.5 million US dollars on 12 July 2023 led by AVM Gestioni with Datalogic, followed by a December 2023 round when Datalogic acquired a minority stake. Public reporting around the Turin factory referenced cumulative investment above 30 million euros, including prior rounds, grants, and shareholder commitments. On 23 June 2026 the company brought in a further group of strategic shareholders, STMicroelectronics, Fondazione ENEA Tech Biomedical, and SpotInvest, with existing backers listed at that point as Comat, Datalogic, and AVM SGR (through the Cysero fund).[5][7][11][13][18]

| Round | Date | Lead or new investors | Notes |
|-------|------|----------------|-------|
| Series A (approx. 5.5M USD) | July 2023 | AVM Gestioni, Datalogic | Used to scale RoBee commercialization and certification programs |
| Strategic minority stake | December 2023 | Datalogic | Partnership covering sales, R&D and marketing; Datalogic safety scanners and vision systems integrated into RoBee |
| Cumulative raise | by 2026 | Multiple | Total reported to exceed 30M EUR ahead of the Turin factory ramp |
| Strategic stake round | June 2026 | STMicroelectronics, Fondazione ENEA Tech Biomedical, SpotInvest | Amount undisclosed; aimed at industrial, technological and U.S. expansion |

Datalogic's involvement is the most operationally visible of the earlier backers. Beyond capital, Datalogic supplies safety laser scanners and vision components that RoBee uses to monitor its surroundings and keep a safe distance from human co-workers, and the two firms collaborate on sales, research, and marketing. Datasensing, a Datalogic subsidiary, has hosted RoBee at trade events.[13][14]

## What is RoBee?

[RoBee](/wiki/robee) is Oversonic's cognitive humanoid robot and the company's only product line, presented as the only humanoid certified for both industrial and medical use.[1][12] It is built around a steel mechanical structure that replicates the human body, with a torso, two arms ending in multi-finger hands, a head with vision and audio sensors, and a wheeled mobile base, and it is offered in three series that share the same software stack.[1][15] A single RoBee unit is priced at roughly 140,000 euros (about 140,000 US dollars).[11]

| Series | Target use | Headline features |
|--------|-----------|-------------------|
| RoBee R | Industry, manufacturing, logistics | 162-190 cm tall, weight up to about 180 kg, designed to load and unload machines, pack products, and pick and place objects; bimanual payload around 10 kg (about 5 kg per arm) |
| RoBee M | Healthcare, rehabilitation, elderly care | Roughly 175 cm tall and around 80 kg, focused on therapy reminders, cognitive stimulation, vital-sign monitoring and accompanying patients in care facilities |
| RoBee F | Intralogistics | Bimanual manipulation, omnidirectional autonomous base, rear module for transport and storage, optimized for moving materials in warehouses |

### What are RoBee's specifications?

Reported specifications vary by configuration. The industrial RoBee R is listed by Oversonic at 162 to 190 cm tall and a weight of up to about 180 kg, with 40 degrees of freedom in total (18 of them in the hands), brushless motors with strain-wave gearboxes, deterministic positioning accuracy of about plus or minus 1 mm, a maximum payload near 5 kg per arm, a top movement speed around 1.2 m/s, IPX4 ingress protection, and WiFi 6 with 5G-ready connectivity. Battery life is rated at up to about eight hours per charge with inductive auto-recharge. The on-board compute originally combined an NVIDIA CPU and GPU running [Linux](/wiki/linux) with LLM integration. At CES 2026 Oversonic showed a refreshed RoBee running on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 edge processors, with speech, reasoning and selected vision tasks executed locally on the robot rather than in the cloud.[15][9] (Third-party trade coverage of the Turin launch described RoBee as standing "up to two meters tall," weighing up to roughly 120 kg in some configurations, with 39 degrees of freedom and 5 kg manipulation, figures that differ slightly from the official spec sheet.)[11]

### Cognitive Platform

Oversonic refers to its software stack as the Cognitive Platform, a modular AI ecosystem that runs on RoBee and integrates with external IT systems. It has six modules: Vision (RGB, depth, thermal and LiDAR fusion for 3D recognition), Conversation (speech recognition, response generation, multilingual support), Motion (joint control, force sensing, gait control), Navigation ([SLAM](/wiki/slam) with LiDAR and depth cameras, AMR and AGV modes), Missions (graph-based mission planning and fallback behaviors), and Monitoring and Analytics (telemetry, predictive maintenance, performance dashboards). The platform is cloud-connected and, per Oversonic, [GDPR](/wiki/gdpr)-compliant and ISO 27001 certified for its enterprise security.[16]

### Certifications

RoBee holds the certifications required for industrial use in factories and the additional certifications needed to operate around patients in healthcare settings. The dual coverage is unusual; most humanoid robots are positioned for one sector at a time, and certification in either domain is expensive and slow. Oversonic uses the dual certification as a selling point because the same hardware can be redeployed across different customer types without a second compliance cycle.[1][7]

## Manufacturing and operations

### Carate Brianza

The technological and production center is on Via Galeazzo Viganò in Carate Brianza. The company designs, integrates and assembles current units there. The headquarters team is reported at about 65 to 70 people, including roughly 30 engineers covering mechanical design, electronics, software and AI.[2][3][7]

### Rovereto

The Rovereto office sits inside the Mechatronic Hub run by Trentino Sviluppo, the public agency that develops the region's mechatronics cluster. It contributes to development work and gives Oversonic access to local automation suppliers and research labs.[2]

### Grugliasco (Turin)

Oversonic has selected the former Maserati industrial complex in Grugliasco, near [Turin](/wiki/turin), for a dedicated RoBee mass-production line, with a target output of 5,000 robots per year once the site is fully operational. The choice of Turin was tied to the AI4Industry national hub at OGR Torino, the local manufacturing supply base, and the availability of disused industrial sites such as Mirafiori TNE and the former Maserati plant.[11]

### United States

For the US launch in early 2026 Oversonic established a presence in the United States, with the company stating it had opened offices in Cincinnati and Los Angeles to support commercial, industrial and financial development in North America. (Earlier reporting around the launch referenced a base in Hamilton, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area.) The US strategy emphasizes healthcare and advanced manufacturing as first beachheads.[1][10][18]

## Who uses RoBee?

### STMicroelectronics

The most significant customer announcement is the December 2025 supply agreement with [STMicroelectronics](/wiki/stmicroelectronics) for custom RoBee humanoids in several ST plants globally. The first unit went live at ST's advanced packaging and test fab in Malta. RoBee handles complex manufacturing flow tasks, supports new product introductions, improves quality and cycle time, and cooperates with industrial automation and agentic software systems. Fabio Puglia described the deployment as the first operational integration of cognitive humanoid robots into semiconductor production. Fabio Gualandris, ST's president of quality, manufacturing and technology, said that "automation, AI and robotics are key enablers of the future of manufacturing."[7][8][18] Two RoBee units appeared in the ST exhibition area at CES 2026.[9]

### Intel

At CES 2026 Oversonic also appeared at Intel's Tech Showcase area in the Venetian, demonstrating a medical-series RoBee running on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 edge processors. According to Intel, "all of RoBee's speech understanding, speech generation, reasoning and select vision tasks are processed on the robot" with nothing sent to the cloud, an approach that "reduces reliance on large, power-hungry GPUs and reduces the risk of latency." Intel positioned the demo as a proof point for client-side AI workloads, removing the need to send patient or factory data to the cloud and cutting latency for real-time tasks such as fall response or quality inspection.[9]

### Healthcare

The RoBee M is deployed in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, where it reminds patients of medication and appointments, accompanies them on facility walks, runs cognitive-stimulation exercises for conditions such as [Alzheimer's](/wiki/alzheimer_s_disease) and [Parkinson's](/wiki/parkinson_s_disease), and monitors vital signs. The healthcare focus is unusual in commercial humanoid robotics and is tied to staff shortages in European elder care.[15][9]

### Other customers and partners

Oversonic targets semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and healthcare buyers. SolidWorld Group is the global distribution partner, and Datalogic supplies sensors and joint go-to-market activity. Paolo Denti has said the company aims to grow international revenue from about five percent of sales in 2025 toward a roughly even split between Italy and the rest of the world in 2026, with Italy at 25 to 30 percent by 2027.[12][14][17]

## Financial profile

Financial reporting on Oversonic is fragmentary because the company is privately held. In a January 2026 interview with Il Sole 24 ORE, Paolo Denti put 2025 revenue between 4.5 and 5 million euros and negative EBITDA of about 5.5 to 6 million euros, reflecting investment in product development, certification and the Turin factory. Denti said the company is targeting growth of between 200 and 300 percent in 2026 and a much larger revenue base by 2030, and described the broader humanoid robotics market as just under 3 billion US dollars today and expected to reach around 40 billion by 2035 (a figure he attributed to Barclays research). Denti also said that, in the medium to long term, "a stock market listing remains one of the most plausible routes to follow," while stressing that the company first wants to "consolidate our market position and continue on the path of growth."[12]

## Technology and approach

Oversonic's pitch is that it is a software company that happens to ship a humanoid. The hardware uses brushless motors, strain-wave gearing, depth cameras and lidar around a steel frame. The differentiator is the Cognitive Platform, a unified stack that maps perception, reasoning, language and motion into a single graph of capabilities the robot composes on demand. The same hardware can run factory pick-and-place tasks and patient companionship in a rehab ward, with policy and safety constraints loaded from configuration.[16]

The company also leans on edge processing for privacy and latency reasons. RoBee processes voice and a slice of vision on-device, using cloud services only for non-time-critical analytics. Chip-fab customers cannot tolerate latency or external data egress, and hospitals cannot send sensitive patient interactions to a generic cloud LLM. Whether the architecture scales to the more open-ended, dexterous tasks that competitors such as Figure, Apptronik, 1X and Unitree pursue is an open question.[8][9][16]

## Reception and recognition

The company has been profiled in Italian and international business press, including Il Sole 24 ORE, Industria Italiana, FIRSTonline, and Engineering.com, and was widely covered in connection with the STMicroelectronics deal. CB Insights named Oversonic one of 13 leading public players in industrial humanoid robotics in its 2024 Tech Trends report, and LinkedIn listed the company on its 2024 Italian Top Startups list.[6][12][7]

## How does Oversonic compare with other humanoid robot makers?

Oversonic competes in a fast-growing humanoid robotics category, but its dual industrial and healthcare positioning is unusual. Competitors cited in sector coverage include [Figure AI](/wiki/figure_ai), [Apptronik](/wiki/apptronik), [1X Technologies](/wiki/1x_technologies), [Agility Robotics](/wiki/agility_robotics), [Unitree Robotics](/wiki/unitree_robotics), [Boston Dynamics](/wiki/boston_dynamics), and [Sanctuary AI](/wiki/sanctuary_ai). Most focus on industrial logistics first; RoBee's medical certification gives Oversonic a different addressable market.[6]

## Company offices

| Location | Function |
|----------|----------|
| Carate Brianza (MB), Italy | Technology and production center, headquarters |
| Besana Brianza (MB), Italy | Original founding location |
| [Milan](/wiki/milan), Italy | Representative office |
| Rovereto ([Trento](/wiki/trento)), Italy | Operational office, Mechatronic Hub of Trentino Sviluppo |
| Grugliasco ([Turin](/wiki/turin)), Italy | Planned mass-production factory, former Maserati site |
| Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | US office (Cincinnati area), launched 2026 |
| Los Angeles, California, USA | US office, launched 2026 |

## ELI5

Oversonic Robotics is an Italian company that makes a robot named RoBee that looks a bit like a person, with two arms, hands, a head, and wheels instead of legs. RoBee has a kind of computer brain that lets it see, talk, listen, and figure out what to do, so it can do real jobs. One kind of RoBee works in factories (it can pick up and move things and help build products), and another kind helps in hospitals and care homes (it can remind people to take their medicine and keep them company). What is special is that the same robot is allowed to work in both factories and around patients, which most robots are not. A big computer-chip company called STMicroelectronics started using RoBee in one of its factories, and other big companies like Intel have shown it off too.

## See also

- [RoBee](/wiki/robee)
- [Humanoid robot](/wiki/humanoid_robot)
- [Cognitive robotics](/wiki/cognitive_robotics)
- [STMicroelectronics](/wiki/stmicroelectronics)
- [Figure AI](/wiki/figure_ai)
- [Apptronik](/wiki/apptronik)
- [1X Technologies](/wiki/1x_technologies)
- [Agility Robotics](/wiki/agility_robotics)
- [Boston Dynamics](/wiki/boston_dynamics)
- [Datalogic](/wiki/datalogic)
- [Industry 5.0](/wiki/industry_5.0)
- [Edge AI](/wiki/edge_ai)

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