FORT Robotics

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.

Products

• Endpoint Controller

Facts

• Website: https://www.fortrobotics.com
• HQ: Philadelphia, United States
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: electronics and robotics components
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2022-07-13 - Series B - $25M - FORT Robotics raises $25M Series B for machine-communication safety platform - source: therobotreport.com
• 2021-03-18 - Venture round - $13M - FORT Robotics raises $13M funding round - source: fortrobotics.com

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
• Funders Club - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-07-13
• GRIDS Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-07-13
• Lemnos - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-07-13
• Tiger Global - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-07-13
• Ahoy Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-18
• FundersClub - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-18
• Lemnos Labs - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-18
• Mark Cuban - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-18
• Prime Movers Lab - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-18
• Quiet Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-18

Safety and control infrastructure for physical AI

FORT Robotics supplies safety-certified control hardware, secure communications, remote operation and supervised-autonomy infrastructure for robots and autonomous machines operating near people.

• Target environment: Warehouses, construction sites, mines, farms, industrial facilities, logistics yards, defence settings and other mixed human-machine environments.
• Deployment model: Subsystem supply through endpoint controllers, wireless safety, remote control and supervision software/hardware for autonomous-machine OEMs and operators.
• Customer context: Robot builders, heavy-equipment OEMs, industrial machine makers, physical AI developers and fleet operators.
• Workflow context: Wireless E-stop, functional safety, endpoint control, secure machine communications, human-in-the-loop supervision and active safety.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial infrastructure supplier with funding, acquisition, safety-certification and partner evidence.
• Market position: Safety-control layer for autonomous machines and mobile robots.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on safety certification, radio performance, integration effort, cybersecurity requirements, fleet scale and operator workflow.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent to machine safety, autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, heavy equipment, fleet supervision and industrial edge compute.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 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 automoti…
• 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 deploy…
• 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.
• 2023-09-06 - Capability - FORT Endpoint Controller receives SIL 3 certification - FORT's Endpoint Controller received SIL 3 functional safety certification under IEC 61508 from exida. The controller can send and receive SIL 3 safety commands over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. FORT said the system can communicate with up to 30 machines simultaneously.
• 2022-07-13 - Funding - FORT Robotics raises $25M Series B for machine-communication safety platform - Tiger Global led FORT Robotics' $25M Series B round. Returning investors included Prologis Ventures, Prime Movers Lab, Mark Cuban, FundersClub, Creative Ventures and Ahoy Capital. FORT said the financing would support its machine-communications platform for c…
• 2022-03-28 - Product Launch - FORT launches Nano Safety Controller for mobile robots - FORT announced the Nano Safety Controller, an embeddable board for wireless safety and security commands. The system allows customers to build FORT safety communication directly into mobile robots and machines. FORT said the product was being piloted with a m…
• 2021-03-18 - Funding - FORT Robotics raises $13M funding round - Prime Movers Lab led the financing. Investors included Prologis Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lemnos Labs, Creative Ventures, Ahoy Capital, Compound, FundersClub and Mark Cuban. FORT said the funding would help scale its automation safety and security platform.

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.

Context tags

• Machine safety controller supplier - Peer Group - FORT Endpoint Controller is a safety controller for machines and robots.
• Collaborative safety control - Capability - FORT safety controls support human-adjacent operation of robots, autonomous vehicles, and heavy machines.
• Embedded robot control - Workflow - FORT endpoint controllers and embedded safety modules deliver low-level machine safety and control commands.
• Secure robotics communications - Workflow - FORT positions secure machine communication as a core layer of its robotics control platform.
• Robot safety-control infrastructure - Peer Group - FORT supplies safety, security and control infrastructure for robots and autonomous machines.
• Functional safety control - Capability - FORT products include SIL 3-certified safety-control hardware.
• Robot control safety layer - Stack Layer - FORT Robotics Control Platform spans wireless stop commands, endpoint controllers, safe remote control, and secure machine communications.
• Autonomous AI safety infrastructure - Peer Group - FORT provides safety and risk-control infrastructure for robots and autonomous systems operating near people.
• Embedded real-time control - Capability - FORT products handle real-time safety commands for autonomous machines and industrial edge systems.
• Industrial edge deployments - Customer Environment - FORT safety architecture is used in industrial, warehouse, construction, agriculture, mining, defense, delivery, and transportation environments.
• Robotics hardware supply chain - Customer Environment - FORT supplies safety-control hardware and infrastructure into robot and autonomous-machine stacks.
• Autonomy software - Stack Layer - FORT sits adjacent to autonomy stacks by providing safety and command infrastructure for autonomous machines.