
SWARM Biotactics builds controllable bio-robotic insect swarms that gather real-time intelligence where conventional robots cannot operate. The company outfits living insects with modular "backpacks"…

SWARM Biotactics builds controllable bio-robotic insect swarms that gather real-time intelligence where conventional robots cannot operate. The company outfits living insects with modular "backpacks"…
Product: Bio-robotic insect swarms with sensor/control backpacks and SWARM OS for mission orchestration
Use cases: Defense, security, law enforcement, search & rescue, infrastructure inspection
Founded: 2024
Funding: €13M total (€10M seed announced Jun 24, 2025; €3M pre-seed)
Headquarters: Kassel, Germany (with U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco)
Autonomous bio-robotics for defense, security, emergency response, and infrastructure inspection in environments inaccessible to conventional robotics.
2024
Biotechnology
€3M
€10M
Announced move from R&D toward field pilots following round
“Backed by a consortium including Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, and Capnamic”
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At SWARM Biotactics , we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack that enables wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.
Biorobot swarms combine the agility of biology with AI, sensors, and swarm coordination — unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.
We are the only company in the world doing this — and we’re pushing the edge of what’s possible in every domain: from biology to embedded hardware to swarm intelligence.
This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from idea to prototype to working system. You should be comfortable working close to hardware, making practical engineering decisions, and solving communication problems in dynamic real-world conditions.
You will work on how distributed agents communicate locally, maintain connectivity, and coordinate reliably under tight physical and system constraints.
🚀 Join us at the frontier — and build the core communication capabilities for the first generation of living machines.
💡 What you’ll do
We are looking for someone to help build the wireless communication layer for highly constrained distributed systems , with a strong focus on UWB, low-power communication, and embedded implementation .
You will:
🧠 What we’re looking for
➕ Nice to have
🌍 Why SWARM Biotactics
⚡ Join the Swarm
If you want to build foundational communication systems for technology that has never existed before, we’d love to hear from you.
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