Sereact, a Stuttgart-based robotics company building AI models for industrial robots, has raised $110m in a Series B round led by Headline. Bullhound Capital, Felix Capital and Daphni joined as new investors.

The round brings Sereact's total funding to more than $140m. Existing backers Air Street Capital, Creandum and Point Nine also participated.

Sereact's core product is Cortex, a vision-language-action model designed to plug into any robot. Its first application has been warehouse picking and packing. More than 200 Sereact systems are live across Europe, and the company says it has completed over one billion real production picks for customers including BMW, Daimler Truck and PepsiCo.

The fresh capital will fund development of Cortex 2, which combines a VLA with a world model, a system that learns to understand and reason about physical environments. Where the first Cortex was limited to seeing and grasping objects, Cortex 2 is built to adapt to changing conditions.

New use cases include assembling components under tension, placing a windshield wiper on a vehicle without scratching it, and positioning parts across multi-station workflows. These are tasks that demand spatial reasoning, not just perception.

"We bet early that you can't build real robotics AI in a lab," said cofounder and CEO Ralf Gulde. "You build it with a data flywheel fed by real deployments, shipping into production, living with the failures and letting the model learn from what actually happens on the floor."

What this signals

European robotics funding is accelerating. In 2025, investment into European robotics startups more than doubled year on year to €1.45bn. Through the first quarter of 2026, the sector had already pulled in €522m.

Sereact sits in a growing cohort of companies applying foundation-model techniques to physical manipulation, alongside firms such as Physical Intelligence, Covariant and Skild AI. The VLA approach, training a single model that maps vision and language to robot actions, is gaining traction as an alternative to hand-coded control stacks.

The company also plans to open its first US office in Boston, hiring commercial, application and engineering staff. For a German robotics firm with a production-tested model and a roster of automotive and logistics customers, the American market is a logical next step.

Sereact has not disclosed its valuation.