Xaba, a Toronto, Canada-based developer of an AI-driven robotics and CNC machine controller, raised a Seed funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Hazelview Ventures with participation from Whiteshell Group, Inc.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of its manufacturing platforms, launch pilot programs, and grow the team across sales, deployment, and customer support.
Led by CEO Massimiliano Moruzzi, Xaba develops processes, control systems, and materials that automate and enable sustainable manufacturing. Its intellectual property uses artificial intelligence (AI) to control industrial robots and enable additive manufacturing machines to synthesize materials or create true digital twins.
Xaba has two manufacturing platforms – xCognition and xTrude – which use proprietary, state of the art industrial artificial intelligence (AI) to provide high execution quality, and autonomy.
xCognition is Xaba’s AI-driven control system. This industrial robotics digital twin captures and models the physics of industrial robotics systems (elastic, dynamic, mechanical, tooling), and enables any robotics system to execute tasks such as drilling, welding, assembling, riveting, laser, data acquisition, and more with maximum accuracy, repeatability, and minimum programming and human supervision.
xTrude is an AI-driven control system for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) processes, enabling the 3D printing of large functional parts while reducing failures such as de-lamination, collapse, and distortion. xTrude uses a machine learning model paired with a process control user interface to model the physics of an FDM process. It automatically computes optimum values for dominant process parameters such as flowrate, feedrate, extrusion temperature, bead width and height, and layer-to-layer adhesion temperature for every Numerical Control (NC) block along the entire printing trajectory.
The company has partnered with leaders in the aerospace and automotive industries on projects in the U.S., Canada, and Europe to validate these manufacturing platforms with users. For Project Arrow, the all-Canadian electric vehicle, Xaba produced a 3D-printed chassis. This technology is also being used in the development of a flying car.
FinSMEs
14/02/2023