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7 days ago
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Mecka's $60 million Series B: Sequoia, NVIDIA and Samsung back a robot-data supplier claiming a $100 million revenue run rate

Mecka said in a company post dated Oct 7 that it raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with NVIDIA, M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung joining and Kindred, Framework Ventures and Neo returning. The company, which records human demonstrations with its own sensor rigs and sells the data and post-trained models, says it passed a $100 million revenue run rate in June and aims for $300 million by year end.

1 sourceMeckaNVIDIAMultiply LabsImitation LearningRobot Foundation Models
7 days ago
FundingUS

Multiply Labs raises $75 million led by Patrick Soon-Shiong to scale robots that make cell and gene therapies

Multiply Labs said in a press release on Oct 6 that it raised a $75 million Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong, with AstraZeneca, Lingotto, Teradyne and Strange Ventures joining as new investors. The San Francisco company, which automates GMP manufacturing of cell and gene therapies, said total funding now exceeds $100 million and the money goes to manufacturing capacity, product work and engineering, regulatory and commercial hiring.

1 sourceMultiply LabsTeradyneSereact
9 days ago
FundingUS

SafeWorld leaves stealth with $12.2 million from Shine Capital and a16z speedrun to stress-test robots around people in simulation

SafeWorld said in a press release on Oct 5 that it emerged from stealth with a $12.2 million seed round co-led by Shine Capital and a16z speedrun, joined by Box Group, the Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel. Co-founded by Carnegie Mellon safe-AI professor Ding Zhao, it sells software that runs robots through thousands of simulated encounters with reactive human motion before and after deployment.

2 sourcesSafeWorldRobrosSim-to-Real TransferSynthetic Data Generation
12 days ago
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Maven Robotics plans hundreds of dual-arm mobile robots on contract after $100 million Series A

Santa Clara startup Maven Robotics, founded in 2024, intends to have a couple of hundred of its mobile manipulators working under production contracts within a year and thousands by 2028, CEO Hamza Derbas said after the company's $100 million Series A in September. The robot, now in its fourth iteration, carries two seven-axis arms, lifts 30 kg and reaches 3 metres high and 48 inches into a pallet, starting with mixed-case palletizing and tote handling. Maven rents the machines out as a service and said its first production contract is signed, with a move to round-the-clock operation planned before the end of 2026.

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13 days ago
FundingUS

Columbia spinout Tangent Robotics raises $4.5 million to give factory robots a sense of touch

Tangent Robotics, a New York company spun out of Columbia Engineering, said on 30 September 2026 it raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round co-led by Fly Ventures and Toyota Ventures. It is building robot hands with light-based touch sensors and learning methods for fine assembly tasks such as connector mating and gear meshing.

1 sourceTangent RoboticsWonik RoboticsSanctuary AITactile SensingDexterous Manipulation
13 days ago
FundingUS

Gradient leads US$7.6 million round for Feather, which sells a US$29,990 two-armed robot and lets buyers pick the brain

Feather Robotics, a US startup selling an open-hardware wheeled robot with two arms for US$29,990, raised US$7.6 million in a round led by Gradient, the lead investor said on 30 September 2026. Gradient said Feather has already passed US$1 million in revenue, with robots at work in manufacturing and food service.

3 sourcesFeather Robotics1X TechnologiesInbolt
13 days ago
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Andreessen Horowitz leads $7.5 million pre-seed for Aleph Surgical, which wants robots to operate without a surgeon at the controls

Aleph Surgical, which is building autonomous surgical robots on embodied foundation models, said on 30 September 2026 that it raised $7.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company says its first system is already learning surgical tasks from demonstrations, but it has published no success rates.

3 sourcesAleph SurgicalInboltDestro AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
13 days ago
FundingFR

Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres

Inbolt, which sells 3D vision and AI software that lets industrial robots correct their motions in real time, said on 30 September 2026 it raised $12.5 million in a round led by Shift4Good. The money funds expansion in the US and Asia-Pacific and a move into data centres and electronics manufacturing, taking total funding to $34 million.

2 sourcesInboltFANUCYaskawa ElectricDepth Vision
14 days ago
FundingJP

Tokyo's Qibitech raises about ¥600 million in Series B to sell one control layer for robots from any maker

Qibitech, the Tokyo developer of HATS vendor-agnostic robot control software, said on 30 September 2026 it raised about ¥600 million in a Series B through a third-party share allotment to funds managed by JIC Venture Growth Investments and Sumitomo Corporation Venture Partners. The money goes to HATS development, sales and hiring.

2 sourcesQibitechInboltDestro AIFleet Orchestration Software
14 days ago
FundingCN

Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market

Direct Drive Tech, which makes direct-drive motor modules for household and wheel-legged robots, raised HK$1,080.0 million when it listed in Hong Kong on 29 September 2026. Robot-vacuum sensor supplier Camsense followed on 30 September with HK$682.0 million after retail investors oversubscribed its public tranche 3,546.91 times. Both companies depend on five customers for more than 80% of sales, their filings show.

6 sourcesDirect Drive TechCamsenseAmicro TechnologyElectric ActuatorsLiDAR
14 days ago
FundingUS

General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act

General Intuition, which trains AI models on action-labelled gameplay clips from the Medal platform, said on 29 September 2026 that it had raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation from investors including Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. The figure is 2.7 times the $2.3 billion it disclosed with its Series A 96 days earlier, and the company has opened a waitlist for partners in robotics, simulation and games.

4 sourcesGeneral IntuitionSkild AIPhysical IntelligenceWorld ModelsImitation Learning
26 days ago
FundingUS

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.

5 sourcesWatneyHumanoidHoliday RoboticsDexterous ManipulationTeleoperation
27 days ago
FundingCN

D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers

D-Robotics, the robot-chip business Horizon Robotics stopped consolidating in March, said on 17 September 2026 it had closed a US$400 million Series C without naming a single investor or a valuation. The company says it has shipped more than 8 million Sunrise chips and that its newest S600 part won more than 20 robot customers within six months, including UBTECH, Fourier and Booster Robotics.

3 sourcesD-RoboticsUBTECH RoboticsFourierEdge AI Compute
29 days ago
FundingUS

Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering

Houston-based Persona AI disclosed in an SEC Form D filed on September 14, 2026 that it has sold $65,363,626 of a planned $141,964,814 private offering to 46 investors, with the first sale on August 28. The company, which builds humanoid robots for shipyard welding and other skilled trades and has a deployment agreement with HD Hyundai, raised $27 million in a pre-seed round in May 2025.

7 sourcesPersona AIApptronikAgility RoboticsDexterous ManipulationTeleoperation
Sep 9, 2026
FundingCN

Service robot maker Excelland lists in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range as institutions leave the book short

Excelland Robotics (Wuxi), ranked third in China's commercial service robot market, began trading in Hong Kong on 9 September 2026 after pricing 45 million H shares at HK$14.45, the bottom of its range, for gross proceeds of HK$650.2 million. Retail investors subscribed 140.02 times while the international tranche was covered only 0.99 times, and the prospectus shows a 2025 loss of RMB110.8 million on revenue of RMB317.7 million.

7 sourcesExcelland Robotics (Wuxi)KEENON RoboticsPudu RoboticsFleet Orchestration SoftwareDepth Vision
Sep 5, 2026
FundingUS

Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss

Churchill Capital Corp XI filed a Form S-4 with the SEC on September 4, 2026 for its $2.5 billion merger with Agility Robotics, the maker of the Digit humanoid, which plans to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT. The filing discloses 2025 net sales of $1.78 million, a net loss of $138.1 million, a $100 million SAFE raised in July 2026 and a single customer commitment of $300 million for Digit v5.

9 sourcesAgility RoboticsFigure AISkild AIElectric ActuatorsBattery Systems
Sep 1, 2026
FundingCN

Mech-Mind raises HK$2.35 billion at the top of its range as Hong Kong retail demand for the 3D vision supplier hits 3,835 times

Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies priced its Hong Kong listing at HK$101.70 per H share, the top of its HK$95.30 to HK$101.70 range, raising gross proceeds of HK$2,353.4 million before any over-allotment, according to its allotment results announcement. The Hong Kong public tranche was subscribed 3,835.36 times and the international tranche 13.39 times, and dealings in stock code 09615 were set to begin at 9:00 a.m. on September 1, 2026.

4 sourcesMech-Mind RoboticsGeek+ (Beijing Geekplus Technology)Huayan RoboticsDepth VisionRobot Foundation Models
Aug 28, 2026
FundingKR

Korea's National Growth Fund puts 150 billion won into robot-hand maker Wonik Robotics in a 350 billion won raise

Wonik Robotics will issue 349.99998 billion won of convertible preferred shares to Korea Development Bank's Advanced Strategic Industry Fund and an IMM Credit Solution vehicle, according to the Financial Services Commission and a Wonik Holdings filing. The money funds a robot-hand factory and AX center in Wanju, R&D and acquisitions, while Wonik Holdings grants investors a put option if the unit does not list within six years.

1 sourceWonik RoboticsRainbow RoboticsDoosan RoboticsDexterous ManipulationTactile Sensing