Mujin
Tokyo industrial automation company whose MujinOS platform plans robot motion and runs robots, AGVs and warehouse equipment for picking, palletizing and truck unloading.
- Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors
Watney has raised an $80 million Series A co-led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, taking its total funding past $100 million. The San Francisco company runs dexterous robots for hyperscale cloud operators and claims better than 99.99% reliability over hundreds of thousands of operating hours, but it disclosed no customer names, valuation or founders.
Mentioned - Stuttgart's Sereact raises US$110 million led by Headline to sell one robot brain for any machine, starting with the US
Sereact, the Stuttgart developer of the Cortex robot model, raised US$110 million in a Series B led by Headline on 27 April 2026, citing more than 1 billion production picks and one remote intervention in about 53,000. The money funds Cortex 2.0, which adds a world model to a vision-language-action model, and a first US office in Boston; Zalando later joined, lifting the round to US$116 million.
Mentioned - UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
UBTech Robotics said in its 2025 annual results that revenue from full-size humanoid robots rose 2,203.7% to RMB820.6 million on 1,079 units, lifting group revenue 53.3% to RMB2.0 billion. The net loss narrowed to RMB789.8 million, while three share placings raised RMB5.78 billion to fund capacity for more than 6,000 robots a year.
Mentioned - Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes
Sunday, the Silicon Valley developer of the Memo household robot, said on 12 March 2026 that it had raised an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a $1.15 billion valuation, led by Coatue, with Coatue's Thomas Laffont joining the board. The company trains Memo on data from people wearing its Skill Capture Glove instead of teleoperating robots, plans an invite-only home beta from the autumn and expects to ship at scale in 2027-2028.
Mentioned - Mujin raises $233 million in Series D first close as NTT and Qatar's sovereign fund bet on its robot operating system
Tokyo-based Mujin said on 2 December 2025 it had raised ¥36.4 billion ($233 million) in the first close of a Series D round, combining $133 million of equity co-led by NTT Group and the Qatar Investment Authority with $100 million of loans from Japanese banks. The company plans to use the money to turn MujinOS into a product business and to push harder into Europe and North America, with a second close planned for 2026.
Subject - Amazon unveils Blue Jay, a multi-arm robot that merges three workstations, and Project Eluna, an agentic AI for warehouse managers
At its Delivering the Future event on October 22, 2025, Amazon showed Blue Jay, a multi-arm system it said could pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types at a South Carolina test site, and Project Eluna, an agentic AI piloted at a Tennessee fulfillment center. Amazon said Blue Jay went from concept to production in just over a year, but an update dated February 25, 2026 states the company no longer uses it in operations.
Mentioned - Amazon unveils Vulcan, its first robot with a sense of touch, to pick and stow about 75% of warehouse items
Amazon introduced Vulcan at its Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany, on May 7, 2025, a fulfillment robot whose grippers carry force sensors so it can feel its way into crowded storage bins. The company said Vulcan can handle about 75% of the item types in its fulfillment centers and was already working in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany, with wider rollout in Europe and the United States planned over the next couple of years.
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