Announcements, events, partnerships, and awards from the Acumino team.
Minas presented Acumino at the Google DeepMind Accelerator Demo Day in London, closing out the inaugural European Physical AI cohort. Key themes from the talk: reliability first, real factory deployments over benchmark demos, and value-driven execution as the differentiator in the Physical AI race.
Acumino kicked off a rapid hiring push to double the team, with openings across Athens, Thessaloniki, and Kavala (Greece), Auckland (New Zealand), and Boston and Mountain View (USA) — spanning research, engineering, and field deployment. Open roles at /jobs.
Acumino was on-site both days of Actuate 26 (Aug 18–19, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco), where the Physical AI community gathers to shape what's next in intelligent robotics systems. CEO Minas Liarokapis and CCO Georgios Tzafis discussed how Physical AI scales onto real factory floors.
Forbes Greece featured an interview with Minas on Acumino's $11.7M seed round and the company's expanded presence in Greece as it scales the training and deployment of AI-powered robot workers.
Acumino joined the Google DeepMind Robotics Accelerator team at the MACHINA Summit in Paris, alongside talks by Carolina Parada (Google DeepMind) and Jim Fan (NVIDIA) on the future of Physical AI. Europe leading with real-world factory deployments was a recurring theme.
Acumino won the 10-Year Anniversary Award of STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play for its collaboration with Schaeffler and DXC Technology — recognised by the partner jury (AUDI AG, BMW Group, Bosch, Hyundai Motor Company, Mercedes-Benz AG, Porsche AG, Schaeffler, Volkswagen Group, and others) as "the outstanding project of a decade".
Acumino raised an $11.7M seed round led by Radar Ventures, with participation from Schaeffler, Big Pi Ventures, MegaChips Corporation, LDV Partners, and Bulent Celebi. The round accelerates the mission to scale reliable Physical AI deployments across factories worldwide. Featured in Sifted.
Acumino was named to Google DeepMind's inaugural European Robotics Accelerator cohort — 15 AI-driven startups shaping the future of Physical AI, with access to DeepMind's AI stack and Gemini Robotics models plus hands-on mentorship from DeepMind's team.
Minas spoke at WIRED Greece's inaugural AUTONOMY event (17 June, powered by ΔΕΗ) about Acumino and the future of Physical AI, marking WIRED Greece's launch and the growing conversation around industrial AI in the region.
Minas attended Jeff Bezos' invite-only MARS Conference (Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, Space) — a gathering of world-class scientists, Nobel laureates, entrepreneurs, astronauts, and artists exploring the long-term future of Physical AI and civilization-scale ideas.
Minas spoke on Physical AI and Acumino's AI-powered robot workers at the Plug and Play Tech Center Germany AI Summit, hosted at BMW Group headquarters in Munich, alongside Jürgen Friedrich of DXC Technology.
The Acumino team joined iREX / 国際ロボット展 2025 in Tokyo with MegaChips Corporation and Universal Robots, demonstrating an Acumino robot worker to the Japanese industrial audience.
Acumino won the 2025 Startupper Award in the Robotics category from startupper.gr on 27 November at Ελληνικός Κόσμος, recognising the company's contribution to AI-driven dexterous robotics.
Acumino and MegaChips Corporation opened Japan's first demonstration environment for Acumino technology at MegaChips' premises — a bimanual manipulation system on Universal Robots arms targeting Japan's labor and skill shortages.
The Humanoid Olympiad kicked off in Olympia, Greece with expert talks and side events. The Acumino team presented industry demos focused on practical humanoid applications.
Acumino received the Plug and Play Tech Center Global Innovation Award for its cross-collaboration with DXC Technology and Schaeffler on Dexterous Package Folding.
Acumino participated in Automate 2025 in Detroit with a cable handling and installation demo in collaboration with Universal Robots, featured in the show's Electronics MFG Zone.
At NVIDIA GTC 2025, our robots played tic-tac-toe with visitors — learning and adapting to their strategies — then tackled bimanual pipe assembly, a task first seen the morning of day three.
Acumino signed an investment and exclusive Japan distribution agreement with MegaChips Corporation to deploy AI-powered robotic workers that address labor shortages through scalable, cost-efficient dexterity.
Minas Liarokapis was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Acumino, taking on the company's leadership as it scales commercial deployments of AI-powered robot workers.