FORT Robotics

FORT Robotics builds safety and control systems for autonomous machines, robots and heavy equipment. Its products include safe wireless remote controls, emergency stops and vehicle safety controllers that let operators command, stop and supervise machines in industrial and field environments.

Facts

Segment: Electronics And Robotics Components
Country: United States
Founded: 2018
Website: https://www.fortrobotics.com

Market context

FORT sits in a deployment-gating layer for mobile robots and autonomous machines. As robots move into shared worksites, functional safety, wireless stop, secure control and human supervision become qualification requirements rather than optional software.

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Products

Endpoint Controller

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Funding

2022-07-13 - Series B - $25M - FORT Robotics raises $25M Series B for machine-communication safety platform - FORT Robotics raised a $25 million Series B led by Tiger Global for its machine-communication and robotics safety platform. - source: therobotreport.com
2021-03-18 - Venture round - $13M - FORT Robotics raises $13M funding round - FORT Robotics closed $13 million in funding led by Prime Movers Lab to scale its automation safety and security platform. - source: fortrobotics.com

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Investors

Compound - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-03-18 - latest 2022-07-13
Creative Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-03-18 - latest 2022-07-13
Prologis Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-03-18 - latest 2022-07-13

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Timeline

2026-05-27 - Acquisition - FORT Robotics acquires Mapless AI for teleoperation and active safety - FORT Robotics acquired Mapless AI, a vehicle teleoperation and autonomy-supervision company. The acquisition added remote human-in-the-loop teleoperation and onboard active-safety capabilities to FORT's platform. FORT said the Mapless AI team brought… - source: fortrobotics.com
2026-03-17 - Partnership - Advantech and FORT Robotics partner on safe physical AI edge system - Advantech partnered with FORT to integrate FORT safety architecture into the MIC-735 edge AI system. The MIC-735 is powered by NVIDIA IGX Thor and targets robotics and AMR applications. The integration supports real-time safety commands for physical AI… - source: fortrobotics.com
2023-12-07 - Product Launch - FORT launches SIL 3-certified Safe Remote Control Pro - FORT introduced Safe Remote Control Pro for autonomous vehicles and heavy machinery. The controller is part of FORT's Pro Series safety and control ecosystem. FORT positioned the product for secure, dynamic control of machines operating around people. - source: fortrobotics.com

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Team

Samuel Reeves - Founder and CEO - Leads FORT's strategy around safe, secure and scalable control infrastructure for robotics and physical AI systems.
Nathan Bivans - Founding CTO - Leads the technical architecture behind FORT's Robotics Control Platform and safety-control systems.
Amod Damle - Head of Product - Leads product direction for FORT's safety and control infrastructure across robotics and physical AI deployments.

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Relations

Advantech - Technology Partner - Advantech has a technology integration relationship with FORT Robotics for safe physical AI edge computing systems.
Mapless AI - Acquirer And Corporate Parent - FORT Robotics acquired Mapless AI and added its teleoperation and active-safety capabilities to the FORT Trust Platform.

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