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Humanoid robot in dark matte polymer with brushed metal joints and orange joint rings, standing with one hand raised, palm toward the viewer.

Robots got a body. The Nordics haven't noticed. Yet!

AI is leaving the screen. We're building a Nordic ecosystem and a lab starting in central Stockholm for organizations that want to understand, experience and test what happens when intelligence becomes physical.

In development. We're gathering the companies, suppliers and partners who want to be part of it from the start.

The gap

Physical AI is at work in the US and China. In the Nordics, almost nowhere.

Humanoids are shipping to American customers this year. Robots that transport, clean, serve and inspect are already everyday equipment across China — and in US warehouses. Walk into the same environments in the Nordics and you find almost nothing.

Not the factory — Sweden's industrial robots are among the densest in the world. Everything outside the fence: machines that walk, see, grip and work among people. There, the Nordics start from zero. Even the region's leading humanoid company now builds and ships from California.

Rows of humanoid robots on a teleoperation training floor, with an operator at each station.
Humanoid robots in rows, operated via teleoperation
An office space with wooden furniture and greenery, with no robots in frame.
An office space, empty of robots

The technology isn't missing. The place where organizations get to see it, test it and understand it is.

The signal

Capital has already made up its mind.

$4.8 billion — in venture investment into humanoid robotics startups during 2025 — a full-year record.

4.8

billion

in venture investment into humanoid robotics startups during 2025 — a full-year record.

Source: Dealroom · 2025 full year

10,000 humanoids — a single European investment firm intends to make available to its portfolio companies through 2030, for warehousing, logistics and manufacturing.

10,000

humanoids

a single European investment firm intends to make available to its portfolio companies through 2030, for warehousing, logistics and manufacturing.

Source: The Robot Report · Dec 2025

+91 % — growth in medical robots in a year. Professional cleaning +34%. Transport and logistics +14%.

91

growth in medical robots in a year. Professional cleaning +34%. Transport and logistics +14%.

Source: IFR World Robotics 2025 · 2024 data

When venture capital starts bringing humanoids into its portfolio companies, the question is no longer whether — but who helps them get started.

What we're building

More than a lab.

The humanoid is where we start. The ecosystem is much bigger. Understanding Physical AI takes more than watching a robot move: it takes the people building it, the organizations trying it, the researchers pushing it forward, the startups creating what comes next, the investors financing it and the people who will end up living and working beside it. The lab makes it tangible. The ecosystem makes it matter.

An illustrated map of the Physical AI ecosystem: industry, technology companies and startups, universities and research, and investors around a glowing globe marked Antra Hub, where people meet the robots — from discover and connect to explore, validate and accelerate.

The ecosystem

The people shaping Physical AI, in the same room as the people who will use it. Builders meet buyers. Researchers meet real problems. Public bodies meet the technology before they have to regulate it. You can meet them. Question them. Learn from them. And, together, work out what Physical AI should mean for you. The ecosystem is where organizations understand, experience, evaluate and experiment with Physical AI — and where curiosity turns into decisions.

A humanoid robot in the foreground of a facility floor, with rows of identical humanoids out of focus behind it.

The lab

A physical place in central Stockholm where Physical AI leaves the presentation and enters the room. Humanoids walk. Mobile robots navigate. Machines see, grasp, carry, inspect and interact. You can watch them. Question them. Test them. And, eventually, put them against your own problems. The lab is where technology companies demonstrate what they have built, where organizations explore what it could mean for them, and where experiments become possible.

Not a showroom. Not a trade fair. Not a co-working space. A place where things actually get tested.

Six ways in

Which door is yours?

Physical AI is too big for one company, one discipline or one industry. Antra brings together the people building it, the organizations exploring it and the ecosystem around it.

You're a company exploring Physical AI

You don't need to know where to start. Most leadership teams have never seen a humanoid or other Physical AI technology working in a real environment — and without seeing it, it is difficult to know what questions to ask. We start by bringing the technology and international expertise into the room. From there, we explore what Physical AI could mean for your organization — from processes and operations to new capabilities, leadership, skills and the future of work. You don't need a defined use case. You just need to be curious about what comes next.

You build Physical AI

Build robots, Physical AI or enabling technologies? Enter the Nordic market with more than a showroom. Get in front of companies exploring real opportunities, demonstrate your technology in the lab, and connect with potential customers, integrators, researchers and investors.

You're a municipality or public organization

How do you bring Physical AI into a city? Not just the technology. Governance. Funding. Procurement. Tenders. Sandbox environments. Public acceptance. Real-world testing. Antra brings the right people and technologies together to explore these questions before they become urgent.

You're a consultancy or integrator

You can install, integrate and commission. We find the companies that need you but don't know you exist.

You're a researcher or university

Bring research into the real world. Connect with Physical AI companies, organizations and real-world challenges — and create new opportunities for collaboration.

You're an investor

See where Physical AI is becoming real. Meet the founders building it. Connect with the companies and public organizations exploring its value. See which technologies are moving from potential to real-world opportunity. Get closer to the market before it becomes obvious.

Do you own space in a central location in a Nordic capital? We have a concept we'd like to share with you. Get in touch

The technology

When AI gets a body, everything changes.

For years, AI lived behind a screen. It could write, analyse, predict and generate — but it couldn't open a door, pick up a box, navigate a warehouse or work beside you. That is changing.

Physical AI gives machines the ability to perceive the world around them, understand what is happening, move through it and act within it. Humanoid robots are the clearest sign of where this is heading: built to operate in environments designed for people, using the same doors, tools, workstations and spaces we already use.

But the technology is still early. A robot completing a demonstration is one thing. A robot reliably doing useful work, day after day, in a real organization is something else. That gap is where things get interesting.

In the lab you'll see the technology up close — not as a video, a slide or a promise, but as machines operating in the physical world. We bring together humanoids, embodied AI, autonomous systems and the people building them, so organizations can understand what is real today, what is developing fast, and what may become possible next.

The question isn't whether robots are coming. It's what you'll do when they arrive. And who gets to decide how they arrive. We'd like it to be the conscious ones.

What you can book

Talks, workshops — and a humanoid if you want one.

Until the lab opens, this is how you meet the technology: we come to your leadership meeting, your conference or your kickoff, with the overview, the concrete look at where it could start in your operation — and, if you want it, a humanoid in the room.

Talk

45–60 minutes for events, conferences and leadership meetings. What Physical AI is, what's real, and what it means for your sector.

Workshop

Half a day with your leadership team — our Executive Discovery Experience. Where it could start in your operation, what to ask suppliers, and what to pilot first.

Live humanoid

An add-on to either. A humanoid in the room, brought by the people who build it. Watch it, question it, see what it can do — and what it can't yet. Subject to availability.

Behind Antra

We come from the robotics industry, from international business development, and from having built physical gathering places in Stockholm before. We're building this because we think it should exist — and because nobody else is.

We're building this now. Want in?

The more companies that say they want to see this happen, the faster it happens.

Start here

Register your interest

We're in development. Tell us who you are and we'll be in touch when it's time.

Antra — the ecosystem and lab for Physical AI in the Nordics