Our Mission

"Scaleup Robotics AB was founded with the mission to enable everyone to develop the skills to critically evaluate, reason about and benefit from the AI and Robotics technology transformation that is impacting our economy and society. We believe that scalable live experimentation on real robotic systems provides the key to building an understanding of AI, Robotics and STEM subjects that is grounded in real world observation and that can motivate learning experiences at all levels of proficiency."

Florian Pokorny & Muhammad Zahid
Founders, Scaleup Robotics AB

  • Florian Pokorny

    Co-Founder

    Associate Professor

    Machine Learning

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  • Muhammad Zahid

    Co-Founder

    Robotics and Systems expert, studied at KTH and American University of Sharjah

Our Journey

Our team's research roots are at the Robotics, Perception and Learning lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden's largest technical university. The idea for Scaleup Robotics was born when we observed that students with strong Robotics and AI expertise still have very little hands-on experience and well-grounded intuition about advanced AI & robotics methods and still lack first-hand experience in evaluating the benefits and risks of the methods being developed in this area.

Launching Scaleup Robotics
From Stockholm to San Francisco, Senegal and beyond

With Scaleup Robotics, we embark on our mission above in making experimentation with real robots available to everyone. Scaleup Robotics AB would not be possible without the supportive Swedish innovation ecosystem and in particular support from Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency, via two VFT projects and support by KTH Innovation, the university's technology incubator. Activities such as the KTH Innovation Brighter program enabled us to run our first international demos and led to collaborations such as our workshops during the 2024 TechWeek event at San Francisco Public Library.

In September, you can join us for an interactive live programming session at the Deep Learning Indaba Workshop on Robot Learning in Senegal, where students from across Africa will connect to our robots to learn about robotics. We also have some exiting customer projects in the works that we will be able to share more about shortly.

Scaleup Robotics AB is also thankful for being a startup community member of AI Sweden, Sweden's leading network of AI-focussed companies.