Company
HIVE
Physical AI startup building a 'silicon brain' that retrofits existing industrial vehicles with sensors and AI to enable autonomous operation.
- HQ
- London, UK
- Status
- private
Models
1
Overview
Physical AI startup building a 'silicon brain' that retrofits existing industrial vehicles with sensors and AI to enable autonomous operation. Deployed across Scandinavia with US expansion underway.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
Funding
$15M pre-Series A (July 2026), led by SuperSeed
Product
Silicon Brain — sensor + AI retrofit kit for industrial machines; remote-supervised autonomous wheel loaders deployed in Norway.
HQ
London, UK (offices also in Norway)
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Safety record
No incidents on record for HIVE.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
HIVE in third-party press
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Lightwheel3 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- Anvil Robotics2 models
Funding rounds (1)
- Pre-Series A2026-07-08
$15M(reported)
Sources (2)
Common questions
- What is HIVE?
- Physical AI startup building a 'silicon brain' that retrofits existing industrial vehicles with sensors and AI to enable autonomous operation. Deployed across Scandinavia with US expansion underway.
- What does HIVE make?
- HIVE has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: HIVE Silicon Brain (HIVE builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).
- Is HIVE publicly traded?
- No. HIVE is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Who competes with HIVE?
- On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to HIVE building in the same form factors include DJI, Boston Dynamics, Robotphoenix, Lightwheel.
- Where is HIVE headquartered?
- HIVE is headquartered in London, UK.
- Where does HIVE operate robots?
- HIVE is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
- Is HIVE safe?
- HIVE has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-14
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-14
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for HIVE.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Lightwheel3 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- Anvil Robotics2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning HIVE from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
HIVE Raises $15M Seed, Bringing a Silicon Brain to Autonomous Industrial Machines
One of Europe's largest seed investments in Physical AI to build a silicon brain that makes industrial machines autonomous and productivity limitless. Hive A new era of work.…
HIVE brings in $15M to build physical AI for industrial machines
HIVE has deployed its technology across several sites in Scandinavia, operating autonomously across different machines. The post HIVE brings in $15M to build physical AI for…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/hive.md
- RSS feed: /companies/hive/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/f997b0cc-318f-4937-af1b-383c761df318
- Revision history: /companies/hive/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- Robotphoenix5 models
- Lightwheel3 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- Anvil Robotics2 models
Video
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