Facts

• Segment: Autonomy Software
• Country: Norway
• Founded: 2024
• Website: https://trener.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Trener Robotics develops AI software for industrial robots. Its Acteris platform replaces rigid robot programming with pre-trained physical-AI skills, letting operators describe tasks and turn them into executable automation on factory robots.

Market context

Trener targets the software bottleneck in industrial automation by helping existing robot fleets learn, adapt and execute production tasks. Trener provides a Physical AI software layer for industrial robot task instruction, skills and deployment.

Facts

• Website: https://trener.ai/
• HQ: San Jose, Norway
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: Autonomy Software
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-02-10 - Series A - $32M - Trener Robotics raises $32M Series A - source: eu-startups.com

Investors

• Cadence - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Emergent Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Engine Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Fitz Gate Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Geodesic Capital via Nikon's NFocus Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• IAG Capital Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Radius Capital Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Raisewell Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Shanda Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
• Techable VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10

Robot-agnostic physical AI platform

Trener Robotics develops Acteris, a robot-agnostic AI software platform for natural-language tasking and adaptive industrial robot control.

• Target environment: Factories, industrial robot cells, CNC environments, manufacturing lines and variable production settings.
• Deployment model: Software-defined robot control platform licensed or deployed into existing industrial automation environments.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, system integrators, industrial robot users and production teams seeking faster automation deployment.
• Workflow context: Natural-language tasking, robot skill generation, adaptive automation, industrial manipulation and software-defined control.
• Commercial maturity: Early commercial physical AI company with Series A funding and live industrial demo activity.
• Market position: Robotics software company focused on a robot-agnostic skills layer for industrial automation.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on robot compatibility, safety, reliability, operator trust, integration with factory systems and proof across variable parts.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes physical AI platforms, robot skill layers, industrial robot software and natural-language automation.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-02-18 - Executive Hire - Trener Robotics hires Jacob Pascual Pape as VP of Sales - Trener Robotics hired Jacob Pascual Pape as Vice President of Sales after its Series A funding announcement.
• 2026-02-13 - Partnership - Nikon invests in Trener Robotics through NFocus Fund - Nikon invested in Trener Robotics through the NFocus Fund, a private equity investment fund jointly established by Nikon and Geodesic Cap…
• 2026-02-10 - Funding - Trener Robotics raises $32M Series A - Trener Robotics announced a $32M Series A round.
• 2024-12-17 - Market Signal - Engine Ventures profiles T-ROBOTICS physical AI industrial automation platform - Engine Ventures profiled T-ROBOTICS as a company building industrial robot intelligence from vision, haptics,…

Team

• Asad Tirmizi - CEO and Co-Founder
• Lars Tingelstad - CTO and Co-Founder - Adds technical founder context for Trener's robot-agnostic Physical AI platform and industrial automation software.

Supply chain relationships

• Nikon - technology_partner - Nikon and Trener Robotics partner on AI-powered robot vision and manufacturing automation.

Relationships

• investor - Engine Ventures co-led Trener Robotics $32M Series A.
• investor - IAG Capital Partners co-led Trener Robotics $32M Series A.
• Nikon - investor - Nikon invested in Trener Robotics through NFocus Fund.

Record / Articles

• 2026-02-10 - Trener Robotics raises $32M for industrial robot skills platform - Trener Robotics’ Series A backs Acteris, a robot-agnostic skills platform for CNC machine tending and industrial automation, as manufacture…