Ferrum Robotics

Tobias Lindqvist

@tobias_bots

Low-cost force-feedback grippers retrofitted onto existing warehouse arms.

RoboticsToronto, CAPre-seedOUTBOUNDCOLD START

Quiet cold-start roboticist — patent filed before pitch deck existed

WATCH

Decided in 12h

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Founder Score

A running score for this person, not this pitch — it persists across applications and never resets to zero.

48Feb 20, 25

Patent filing surfaced via registry monitoring, no company yet visible

58Apr 30, 25

Working demo video posted, no funding announcement

66Jun 18, 25

Outreach converted to a scheduled screening call

3-Axis Score

Founder, market, and idea-fit are scored independently and never averaged — disagreement between them is signal, not noise.

Founder

Is this person capable of pulling this off?

70improving

Filed a utility patent on the gripper mechanism 8 months before forming a company or raising — sequencing suggests genuine conviction over fundraising theater.

2 evidence points backing this score

Market

BULLISH

Is this a market worth building a fund-scale outcome in?

63improving

Warehouse labor shortage is pushing retrofit automation demand; low-cost gripper retrofits avoid the capex of full robotic-arm replacement.

Idea vs Market

Does the specific idea survive contact with that market?

65stable

Idea survives as-is; retrofit angle is a real cost wedge versus full-arm replacement vendors.

1 evidence point backing this score

Trust Score

2 verified · 1 claimed · 0 contradicted

Every claim this founder made, traced to a source and rated by how well it holds up.

Verified — independently cross-checked against an outside sourceClaimed — founder's word only — not yet checkedInferred — reasoned from evidence, not stated outrightContradicted — checked, and it does not hold up

productUtility patent filed on force-feedback gripper mechanism

Verified

Checked: Cross-checked patent office registry

“Force-feedback modular gripper attachment — filed 2024-11-02” — National patent office filing

productWorking prototype retrofit-tested on a used industrial arm

Verified

“Gripper retrofit on a used FANUC arm picking irregular boxes” — Demo video, unlisted YouTube link

tractionTwo warehouse operators interested in pilot

Claimed

Verbal interest only, no LOI yet.

Legibility

A great talker and a great builder can score the same on a deck. This strips out how well the pitch was told, and scores what was actually built.

Raw · the substance, stripped of delivery70

Polished · how good it sounded in the room55

Correction applied — the gap between substance and delivery is removed.

Corrected · what we actually act on70

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