Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: Norway
• Founded: 2018
• Website: https://www.roboxi.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Roboxi builds autonomous airside robots for airport runway, taxiway and apron operations. Its systems inspect pavement, detect and collect foreign object debris, deter birds and identify faulty runway lights while operating around active airport infrastructure.

Market context

Airport airside automation is a safety-critical robotics market where inspection speed, regulatory approval and operational reliability matter as much as robot autonomy. Autonomous airside robots for runway inspection, FOD detection, lighting checks, surface monitoring and wildlife deterrence.

Facts

• Website: https://www.roboxi.com
• HQ: Stavanger, Norway
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: Inspection
• Funding total: $14.7M
• Known funding rounds: 1
• Latest funding date: 2026-05-22

Funding

• 2026-05-22 - New equity issue - $15M - Roboxi raises €13M new equity issue for airport airside automation - source: theaiinsider.tech

Investors

• Knut Molaug - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22

Autonomous airside inspection and maintenance

Roboxi builds autonomous airport robots for runway, taxiway and apron inspection, FOD detection, lighting checks, surface monitoring and wildlife deterrence.

• Target environment: Airport runways, taxiways, aprons and other airside operating zones.
• Deployment model: Airport operators use Roboxi systems for repeatable inspection and maintenance workflows managed through a command center.
• Customer context: Airport operators, aviation authorities and airside safety teams.
• Workflow context: Foreign object debris detection, FOD removal, runway inspection, lighting inspection, surface monitoring, wildlife deterrence and airside data capture.
• Commercial maturity: Roboxi has reported development, regulatory approval and operational projects across airports including Schiphol, Frankfurt, Florence, Dallas and Stavanger.
• Market position: Airport robotics specialist focused on safety-critical airside automation rather than general warehouse or facility AMR deployment.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on aviation safety approval, weather tolerance, airside communications, low-false-positive perception and integration with airport procedures.
• Adjacent context: Airport robotics, autonomous inspection UGVs, FOD detection, runway maintenance, aviation safety systems and airside operations software.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-22 - Funding - Roboxi raises €13M new equity issue for airport airside automation - Roboxi raised €13 million in new equity financing to scale its autonomous airport operations platform.
• 2024-09-05 - Partnership - Ixys documents VJU control system powering Roboxi runway rover - The case study describes VJU Studio powering the Roboxi rover for airport runway inspection and maintenance workflows.

Team

• Magnus Finnesand - CEO & Co-Founder
• Ken Erik Steine - COO & Founder
• José Luis Gil, PhD - CCO
• Morten Nærland - Interim CFO
• Kjartan Nilsen - CTO

Context tags

• Inspection robotics companies - Peer Group - Roboxi builds robotic systems for airport airside inspection.
• Industrial inspection - Workflow - Roboxi targets FOD, runway, taxiway, lighting and surface inspection workflows.