Mashup is pulling founders, investors and Physical AI builders to Malmö. We’ll be there too, before Nordic Hardtech Weekly returns on April 29.
Software is moving off the screen and into the factory. A new generation of startups is building the industrial stack that will run robots, production lines and physical systems.
New collaborations, funding signals and invitations are emerging across the Nordic hardtech ecosystem. Some of them may be worth acting on.
Independent tests confirm Donut Lab’s fast-charging performance at cell level, while key claims remain unverified. The story has become a live case study in how deep hardware is validated, funded and scrutinized.
Nordic Hardtech opens up for new partners and podcast guests across AI, robotics, defence, energy, materials and industrial tech. Reach thousands of Nordic hardtech leaders weekly – and even more including our podcast.
Industrial policy is no longer background noise for Nordic hardtech founders. This week, we explore how public funding, regulation and procurement are reshaping product strategy, scaling and risk – and what founders need to understand to stay in control.
What happens when infrastructure has to make decisions on behalf of animals? Flox’s edge-based approach shows why autonomy, hardware constraints and fast iteration matter when AI leaves the cloud.
A living list of Nordic hardtech events: conferences, roundtables and meetups worth attending if you’re building complex, physical tech.
Former fighter pilot Max Villman shares what aviation training reveals about validation, situational awareness and why much of defense tech is still built for the wrong assumptions.
Europe invents deeptech at scale, but struggles to deploy it. This guest column argues that waiting for TRL 7 is a strategic mistake, and that legacy industry must take responsibility earlier if European deeptech is going to scale.
2026 will accelerate hardtech. AI moves from feature to foundation, energy resilience becomes critical, and Nordic voices point to the shifts that will matter — and the systems that may not keep up.
Consumer hardware is learned by doing. In this week’s feature, Atonemo founder Leo Ballesteros shares when to listen, when to wait, and why hardware always takes longer than planned.
