Backing Kinematic Trees: Building the Intelligence Layer for Scalable Robotics
We are delighted to announce our investment in Kinematic Trees, a robot-agnostic software company building the infrastructure needed to make robots more useful, adaptable and accessible across different machines and environments.
The investment will support the expansion of the company’s commercial, robotics and software engineering teams across London, Nottinghamshire and Sheffield. It will also help accelerate product development and the international deployment of its technology.
What Does Kinematic Trees Do?
Robotics hardware has advanced rapidly, but the software used to control robots is often proprietary, inflexible and closely tied to a particular machine. This makes it difficult to reuse expertise across different robots, adapt systems to new tasks or keep older hardware operational when its original software becomes obsolete.
Kinematic Trees is building a robot-agnostic intelligence layer designed to address this problem.
Its software captures specialist robotics expertise in modular components that can be reused, recombined and developed for new deployments. This enables robotics providers to create integrated solutions for their customers, helps manufacturers bring advanced robotics products to market and gives software developers a route to commercialise new robotics capabilities.
Inspired by principles from psychology, neuroscience and the evolution of natural intelligence, Kinematic Trees’ technology separates the robot’s “mind” from its physical body. Its ambition is to enable intelligence and learned capabilities to move between different robotic systems and adapt to different environments.
The company is initially applying its technology across factories, warehouses and advanced manufacturing, while also exploring opportunities in healthcare, education, the creative industries and, ultimately, personal robotics.
Kinematic Trees was founded in 2025 by Dr Stuart Wilson and Daniel Camilleri. Stuart is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, while Daniel is an experienced robotics technologist and exited co-founder of Cyberselves Universal, which later became Bettering our Worlds (BOW).
Their combined expertise in computational neuroscience, cognitive architecture, robotics and commercial technology provides a strong foundation for turning that idea into a scalable platform.
Why This Matters
The robotics industry is approaching an important inflexion point. Improvements in sensors, motors, artificial intelligence and manufacturing are making sophisticated robotic hardware more capable and affordable than ever before.
However, hardware alone will not deliver widespread adoption.
Robots must also be easy to deploy, adaptable to different tasks and environments, and capable of working alongside other machines. Businesses need to be able to introduce robotics without becoming dependent on a single hardware manufacturer or rebuilding their software from scratch for every deployment.
There is also a significant amount of existing robotics hardware sitting unused in factories and research facilities because its original software no longer works or the people trained to operate it have moved on. Kinematic Trees’ approach has the potential to bring these machines back into productive use while ensuring newly deployed robots remain valuable for longer.
By creating a common intelligence and integration layer, Kinematic Trees can help robotics expertise travel across different machines, industries and use cases. This has the potential to reduce deployment costs, shorten development cycles and make advanced robotics accessible to a much wider range of organisations.
Why We Are Excited
We were immediately impressed by the scale of Stuart and Daniel’s vision, but equally importantly, by the practical commercial applications already emerging from their work.
They bring together a rare combination of deep scientific expertise, extensive robotics knowledge and proven commercial experience. Rather than attempting to build another piece of robotics hardware, they are addressing one of the industry’s most significant barriers: the need for flexible, portable intelligence that can operate across machines and environments.
Kinematic Trees also has the potential to benefit from the growth of the robotics market as a whole. As new forms of hardware emerge, demand for the software needed to integrate, control and coordinate those systems should grow alongside them.
We are excited to support Stuart, Daniel, and Kinematic Trees as they build the software infrastructure for scalable robotics.
The investment will support the expansion of the company’s commercial, robotics and software engineering teams across London, Nottinghamshire and Sheffield. It will also help accelerate product development and the international deployment of its technology.
What Does Kinematic Trees Do?
Robotics hardware has advanced rapidly, but the software used to control robots is often proprietary, inflexible and closely tied to a particular machine. This makes it difficult to reuse expertise across different robots, adapt systems to new tasks or keep older hardware operational when its original software becomes obsolete.
Kinematic Trees is building a robot-agnostic intelligence layer designed to address this problem.
Its software captures specialist robotics expertise in modular components that can be reused, recombined and developed for new deployments. This enables robotics providers to create integrated solutions for their customers, helps manufacturers bring advanced robotics products to market and gives software developers a route to commercialise new robotics capabilities.
Inspired by principles from psychology, neuroscience and the evolution of natural intelligence, Kinematic Trees’ technology separates the robot’s “mind” from its physical body. Its ambition is to enable intelligence and learned capabilities to move between different robotic systems and adapt to different environments.
The company is initially applying its technology across factories, warehouses and advanced manufacturing, while also exploring opportunities in healthcare, education, the creative industries and, ultimately, personal robotics.
Kinematic Trees was founded in 2025 by Dr Stuart Wilson and Daniel Camilleri. Stuart is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, while Daniel is an experienced robotics technologist and exited co-founder of Cyberselves Universal, which later became Bettering our Worlds (BOW).
Their combined expertise in computational neuroscience, cognitive architecture, robotics and commercial technology provides a strong foundation for turning that idea into a scalable platform.
Why This Matters
The robotics industry is approaching an important inflexion point. Improvements in sensors, motors, artificial intelligence and manufacturing are making sophisticated robotic hardware more capable and affordable than ever before.
However, hardware alone will not deliver widespread adoption.
Robots must also be easy to deploy, adaptable to different tasks and environments, and capable of working alongside other machines. Businesses need to be able to introduce robotics without becoming dependent on a single hardware manufacturer or rebuilding their software from scratch for every deployment.
There is also a significant amount of existing robotics hardware sitting unused in factories and research facilities because its original software no longer works or the people trained to operate it have moved on. Kinematic Trees’ approach has the potential to bring these machines back into productive use while ensuring newly deployed robots remain valuable for longer.
By creating a common intelligence and integration layer, Kinematic Trees can help robotics expertise travel across different machines, industries and use cases. This has the potential to reduce deployment costs, shorten development cycles and make advanced robotics accessible to a much wider range of organisations.
Why We Are Excited
We were immediately impressed by the scale of Stuart and Daniel’s vision, but equally importantly, by the practical commercial applications already emerging from their work.
They bring together a rare combination of deep scientific expertise, extensive robotics knowledge and proven commercial experience. Rather than attempting to build another piece of robotics hardware, they are addressing one of the industry’s most significant barriers: the need for flexible, portable intelligence that can operate across machines and environments.
Kinematic Trees also has the potential to benefit from the growth of the robotics market as a whole. As new forms of hardware emerge, demand for the software needed to integrate, control and coordinate those systems should grow alongside them.
We are excited to support Stuart, Daniel, and Kinematic Trees as they build the software infrastructure for scalable robotics.
By
Jessica Fox
Head of Investor Relations
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