TetraGen Robotics raises $1.8M to automate industrial welding

Khoshdarregi founded TetraGen in 2022. He previously ran the Intelligent Digital Manufacturing Lab at the University of Manitoba. TetraGen targets heavy equipment, mining, and defence manufacturing – industries where weld complexity and manual programming remain high.

TetraGen plans to use the capital to accelerate commercialization and deploy more systems across North America, the company said. It also plans to grow its engineering and commercial teams but did not say how many hires that would mean.

The Canadian collaborative-robot market is valued at roughly $52 million and is projected to exceed $129 million in the coming years. The Canadian Welding Bureau updated its standards in 2025 to reflect the growing use of autonomous systems in industrial welding, which the industry sees as a way to address a growing shortage of skilled welders.