Unity Robotics, a Germany-based smart assistant robot spinout of Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), has raised a seven-digit seed round.

The money was provided by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, which owns the network of Fraunhofer institutes, public-private partnership High-Tech Gründerfonds, and consultancy Staufen’s investment arm Staufen-Digital, as well as Haas Equity and Stokar Mach3.

Unity Robotics is developing smart robot assistants that are able to navigate autonomously and help customers with information and assistance, while providing transport and monitoring…