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Jan 21, 2026
FundingUS

Zipline raises more than $600 million at a $7.6 billion valuation as its drone deliveries pass 2 million

Zipline said on January 21, 2026 that it raised more than $600 million at a $7.6 billion valuation from investors including Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners and Tiger Global. The drone delivery operator has passed two million commercial deliveries, says US volumes grew about 15% a week for seven months, and will launch in Houston and Phoenix before entering at least four new states in 2026.

5 sourcesZiplineShield AISaronic TechnologiesFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Jan 15, 2026
FundingUS

Ex-Tesla team's Mytra raises $120 million Series C led by Avenir Growth after signing a warehouse deal 60 times its largest so far

Mytra, the material-handling robotics company led by former Tesla Bot chief Chris Walti, raised a $120 million Series C led by Avenir Growth, with cold-storage operator Lineage and Ryder's venture arm among strategic backers. The company says it has signed a deployment 60 times the size of its biggest earlier installation and now serves a Fortune 100 food company and a Fortune 500 industrial distributor.

3 sourcesMytraExotecLocus RoboticsFleet Orchestration Software
Jan 14, 2026
FundingUS

Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot

Skild AI said on 14 January 2026 it had closed a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank Group, valuing the company at more than $14 billion. NVIDIA's venture arm, Macquarie Capital and Bezos Expeditions joined, alongside new strategic backers LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit and Salesforce Ventures. The start-up, founded in 2023, said its Skild Brain software went from no revenue to about $30 million within a few months of 2025.

1 sourceSkild AINVIDIAFigure AIRobot Foundation ModelsSynthetic Data Generation
Dec 30, 2025
FundingCN

SwitchBot maker OneRobotics raises HK$1.64 billion in Hong Kong IPO as retail demand hits 254 times

OneRobotics, the Shenzhen company behind the SwitchBot smart home robots, began trading in Hong Kong on December 30, 2025 after pricing its H shares at HK$73.80 and raising gross proceeds of HK$1,640.01 million. The retail tranche was 254.50 times subscribed. The company sells most of its products in Japan and turned profitable only in the first half of 2025.

6 sourcesOneRoboticsUBTECH RoboticsDobotDexterous Manipulation
Dec 2, 2025
FundingJP

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.

4 sourcesMujinNTTExotecFleet Orchestration SoftwareDepth Vision
Nov 25, 2025
FundingCN

UBTech raises HK$3.1 billion for supply-chain deals a week after its Walker S2 humanoid enters mass delivery

UBTech Robotics agreed on 25 November 2025 to place 31.468 million new H shares at HK$98.80, raising about HK$3.11 billion, and earmarked 75% of the net proceeds for investing in or acquiring upstream and downstream companies. Eight days earlier the Shenzhen company said its Walker S2 industrial humanoid had entered mass production and delivery, with orders since the start of 2025 above RMB800 million.

3 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsDobotUnitree RoboticsBattery SystemsDepth Vision
Nov 21, 2025
FundingUS

Physical Intelligence raises $600 million at $5.6 billion as CapitalG leads bet on a shared robot brain

Robot foundation model developer Physical Intelligence has raised $600 million at a $5.6 billion valuation in a Series B led by Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG, according to its investors. The round followed the release of π*0.6, a model the company says more than doubles throughput on hard tasks after reinforcement learning on real robots.

2 sourcesPhysical IntelligenceFigure AISkild AIVLARobot Foundation Models
Nov 18, 2025
FundingCH

Distalmotion raises US$150 million to take its DEXTER surgical robot into US outpatient centres

Swiss surgical robot maker Distalmotion closed a US$150 million Series G led by Revival Healthcare Capital on 18 November 2025 and named former Silk Road Medical chief executive Chas McKhann executive chairman. Johnson & Johnson's venture arm followed with a strategic investment in January 2026, and by August the FDA had cleared DEXTER for five procedures aimed at ambulatory surgery centres.

6 sourcesDistalmotionJohnson & JohnsonIntuitive
Sep 16, 2025
FundingUS

Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price

Figure AI said on 16 September 2025 it had secured more than $1 billion in committed Series C capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation, with Parkway Venture Capital leading and NVIDIA, Brookfield, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and LG Technology Ventures among the named backers. The company will spend the money on BotQ production, GPU infrastructure for its Helix model and large-scale collection of human video data.

2 sourcesFigure AINVIDIAQualcommVLARobot Foundation Models
Sep 16, 2025
FundingUS

Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work

Dyna Robotics closed a US$120 million Series A on 15 September 2025, led by Robostrategy, CRV and First Round Capital with NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce, Samsung and LG venture arms joining, six months after a US$23.5 million seed. The Redwood City company did not disclose a valuation; it says its DYNA-1 model already runs paying deployments in hotels, restaurants, laundromats and gyms for up to 16 hours a day.

6 sourcesDyna RoboticsNVIDIAAmazonRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Aug 20, 2025
FundingUS

FieldAI raises $405 million in two back-to-back rounds to sell one physics-first brain for any robot body

FieldAI, an Irvine, California developer of robot autonomy software, said on August 20, 2025 that it had raised $405 million across two consecutive rounds from investors including Bezos Expeditions, BHP Ventures, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA's NVentures and Temasek. The company did not disclose a valuation and says its Field Foundation Models already run on quadrupeds, humanoids, wheeled robots and passenger-scale vehicles at industrial sites in Japan, Europe and the US.

2 sourcesFieldAINVIDIASkild AIRobot Foundation Models
Jul 1, 2025
FundingFR

Genesis AI raises $105 million seed from Eclipse and Khosla to build a universal robot brain on its own simulation engine

Genesis AI, a physical AI lab based in Paris and Palo Alto, came out of stealth on July 1, 2025 with $105 million co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel also investing. The company, which later called the round seed funding, plans a universal robotics foundation model trained on a data engine that mixes in-house physics simulation, generative modelling and real robot data, and did not disclose a valuation.

6 sourcesGenesis AISkild AIPhysical IntelligenceRobot Foundation ModelsSynthetic Data Generation
Jun 24, 2025
FundingCN

Galbot raises RMB 1.1 billion in a round led by CATL and Puquan Capital, lifting two-year funding above RMB 2.4 billion

Beijing embodied AI start-up Galbot completed a RMB 1.1 billion financing in June 2025 led by battery maker CATL and Puquan Capital, with China Development Bank's CDB Science and Technology Innovation, the Beijing Robotics Industry Fund and GGV Capital also investing, according to the Zhongguancun Science City administration. The deal took the company's funding over two years past RMB 2.4 billion and gave its synthetic data approach to robot learning a strategic industrial backer.

2 sourcesGalbotApptronikGenesis AIVLARobot Foundation Models
Jun 12, 2025
FundingUS

Gecko Robotics doubles its valuation to $1.25 billion in a Cox-led Series D as navies and power plants buy its inspection data

Gecko Robotics said on 12 June 2025 that its Series D valued the Pittsburgh company at $1.25 billion, double the price of its previous round, with Cox Enterprises leading as a new investor and USIT, XN, Founders Fund and Y Combinator returning. The company did not state the round size on its own release; it is selling its Cantilever software platform, fed by climbing, flying and swimming robots, to defence, energy and manufacturing customers.

6 sourcesGecko RoboticsANYboticsFieldAIFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Feb 14, 2025
FundingUS

Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid

Austin humanoid maker Apptronik said on 13 February 2025 it had raised a US$350 million Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google participating. The round is more than 12 times the US$28 million the company had raised before and will fund Apollo production, new robot iterations and wider deployments in 2025.

2 sourcesApptronikGoogleGoogle DeepMindElectric ActuatorsRobot Foundation Models
Jan 15, 2025
FundingDE

NEURA Robotics raises EUR 120 million Series B led by Lingotto as it reports a EUR 1 billion order book

NEURA Robotics of Metzingen, Germany, said on 15 January 2025 it had raised EUR 120 million in a Series B round led by Lingotto Investment Management. The company said the money would fund research and development, new product launches and its Neuraverse software platform, and reported more than 300 staff, tenfold revenue growth in a year and a EUR 1 billion order book.

7 sourcesNeura RoboticsKawasaki Heavy IndustriesFigure AITactile SensingDepth Vision