Towa Robotics | Actuators · Fractional CTO

Overview

Robotics hardware startups often run into predictable roadblocks. Our role is to identify and help you avoid them before they cause months of delay.

Founded by a PhD in robotics and former CTO with a background spanning startups, industry, and research labs, Towa Robotics is backed by an on-demand network of experts. Together, we support every stage of your complex projects, from early R&D to industrialization.

We build prototypes fast with industrial reality in mind - ensuring the path to production is a clear road, not a rebuild.

Fractional CTO & Due Diligence

Technical audit, roadmap definition & investment advisory.

Advanced Mechatronics

Custom actuators (motors, gears) & full-stack design.

Fast Prototyping

Hands-on: Mechanics, Electronics, Software & assembly.

Services

Actuation & Systems Architecture

Unblocking critical technical challenges and driving architecture decisions across mechanical design (CAD), electronic integration, and real-time firmware. Focused on delivering scalable solutions.

Rapid Prototyping & Pre-design

Turning early concepts into functional, high-performance prototypes, and delivering robust, well-integrated systems with industrial constraints and manufacturing requirements in mind from day one.

Part-Time CTO

Structuring the technical trajectory, guiding key architectural decisions, and aligning engineering teams on roadmap execution. An end-to-end view spanning R&D, product-market alignment, and fundraising milestones.

Technical Due Diligence

Independent technical assessments: risk analysis, team credibility, and roadmap realism, to inform investment decisions or support fundraising preparation.

Facing a technical challenge?

Let's talk

Extended Team & Network

Depending on the mission, we can either involve trusted specialists for expertise, or directly hire and manage contributors to produce work — from design to manufacturing.

R&D & Simulation

Finite element analysis, Hardware security, Embedded systems, network.

Firmware & Software

Real-time firmware, Software architectures, Embedded systems.

Industrialization

Machining and production, EMC/EMI certification, Product design, Design for manufacturing.

Production

Direct access to trusted precision machinists, motor manufacturers & hardware suppliers.

Track record

Hands-on technical expertise and strategic leadership, proven across diverse robotics domains and startup fundraising.

500+

Custom robot actuators produced and deployed.

€5M

In venture capital and non-dilutive grants secured under my technical leadership.

5+

Mission-critical domains: space, defense, medical, agriculture and drones.

Featured Projects

Robotic actuator

From zero to production: mechanics, sensors, electronics, sizing, and firmware.

500+ Units in operation, >1.5 years aging tests

1 Patent used by 2 startups, +20% power to mass ratio

6 axis robot

From zero to POC: mechanics, system integration, software. Integrates custom made actuators.

5 Labs working with it, 2 Fundraising rounds backed

3 Non-dilutive grants secured, 4+ Critical live demos

Research - Satellite control system

Full stack mechatronics: under heavy in-flight tests safety constraints and in restricted time.

Custom 15000rpm control moment gyroscopes.

2 Zero G flight campaigns

Backed by 2 space agencies (ESA / CNES)

Drones launch and recovery

PhD Thesis: Modelling, design and control of flexible robots.

Extremely flexible system: 7.5m long, 14kg moving mass.

5+ Weeks of ground and marine tests

1 Patent, 2 non-dilutive grants, 2 Scientific publications

Have a challenge worth solving ?

Share your context, your 3-month objective, and your main technical risk. We will come back to you with a tailored approach.

Our emails are encrypted and hosted in Switzerland by Proton Mail.

Start conversation contact@towarobotics.com