Kinematic Trees, a UK robotics software startup developing nature-inspired, robot-agnostic control systems, raised £585,000 (€687,000) in pre-seed funding from Haatch through its SEIS Fund, D2N2 Early-Stage Angel Investment Fund, and British Business Bank Syndicate Fund. The investment will expand engineering and commercial teams while accelerating product development and international deployment.
Building a Universal Robot Intelligence Layer
Founded by computational neuroscientist Dr. Stuart Wilson and robotics entrepreneur Daniel Camilleri, Kinematic Trees develops software that enables advanced robot control across different hardware platforms. The modular system supports multi-robot coordination while allowing software to be reused across industrial, commercial, and consumer robotics applications.
“Advances in sensors, motors, and AI are now bringing robotics to people and businesses at exceptionally low cost. We’re providing the intelligence layer to make those robots useful, inherently safe, and – perhaps most importantly – customisable. Robots should be able to do whatever we want them to, rather than what any particular company thinks we might want them to,” he explains. “With that layer for deploying advanced control systems, and orchestrating multi-robot teams, we will first build out specific expertise on production lines, in warehouses, within advanced manufacturing, in businesses and in homes.
“That expertise will then become useful for all, through modular software that can be reused, recombined, and elaborated – much like how natural intelligence evolves – to help get the most out of personal robots,” Wilson says.
Expanding Robotics Deployment
The company plans to launch initial factory deployments, grow partnerships with robotics providers and software developers, and strengthen commercial and engineering operations during the second half of 2026.