Robotics
A Robot That Prints Houses Just Raised $200 Million — at a Lower Price Than in 2022
3D-printing construction startup ICON raised a $200M Series D co-led by BlackRock and Baillie Gifford at a $1.4B valuation — below its ~$2B 2022 peak.
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Robotics
FieldAI's "Robot Brain" Just Quintupled to a $10 Billion Price Tag
FieldAI's robot-control software is reportedly raising $700M at a $10B valuation — five times its worth a year ago, with zero hardware of its own.
Biotech
A Robot Arm Now Builds Cancer Cures 74% Cheaper — and Multiply Labs Just Raised $75 Million to Scale It
Multiply Labs raised a $75M Series B on Oct 6, 2026 to scale robots that make cell therapies up to 74% cheaper per dose.
Robotics
FieldAI Builds Brains for Robots It Doesn't Make — and Just Hit a $10 Billion Valuation
FieldAI signed a term sheet for $700M at a $10 billion valuation, up 5x from $2 billion in just over a year. The twist: it builds software for robots it doesn't make.
AI
The $6.2 Billion Bet That Your Game Clips Can Teach Robots to Move
General Intuition just closed $220M at a $6.2B valuation, betting that billions of gameplay clips a year can teach robots and self-driving cars how to move.
Semiconductors
SiMa.ai Hit $1.45 Billion Building the Chip Your Robot Runs Without the Cloud
SiMa.ai raised $150M at a $1.45B valuation to run AI on-board robots, drones, and cars — betting the next chip war happens outside the data center.
Robotics
20 Robot Makers Buy the Same Chip. D-Robotics Just Raised $400 Million Making It.
D-Robotics closed a $400M Series C — the day's biggest raise — selling the chips and software inside 20+ rival robot makers, with 8M+ Sunrise chips already shipped.
Robotics
The Apple Car Team Gave Up on Cars. Now They Build Warehouse Robots — and Just Raised $100M.
An ex-Apple car engineer's startup, Maven Robotics, exits stealth with a $100M Series A to build wheeled warehouse robots that stack boxes — no legs required.
Robotics
Robots Have a Seeing Problem. The Face ID Team Just Raised $165 Million to Fix It.
The former Apple and PrimeSense engineers behind Face ID and the Kinect raised a $165M Series C at a $1.6B valuation to fix robots' biggest blind spot: perception.
Robotics
Hugging Face Is Selling a $399 Robot Duck That Teaches Itself to Walk. The Cheapest Humanoid Costs $13,500.
Hugging Face's Microduck is a $399 open-source biped that walks, falls, and self-recovers, retrainable with reinforcement learning, while the cheapest humanoid still starts at $13,500.
Autonomous Vehicles
Gatik Raised $200 Million to Run Driverless Trucks for Walmart and PepsiCo. It Already Booked $600 Million in Freight.
Gatik raised a $200M Series D led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch to scale its driverless middle-mile trucks — with $600M in freight already contracted.
Robotics
XPeng's Robot Unit Raised $900 Million. It Hasn't Sold a Single IRON.
XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation in its first external round — before the IRON humanoid has shipped a single unit.
Robotics
Unitree Made $41 Million Last Year. Its Shanghai Debut Valued It at $66 Billion.
Unitree's Shanghai debut popped 629% intraday, valuing the humanoid robot maker near $66 billion - on 2025 net profit of about $41 million.
Robotics
Neros Raised $250 Million at a $2.5 Billion Valuation — and Wants to Build a Million Drones a Year
Neros, a three-year-old drone startup, raised a $250M Series C at a $2.5B valuation to mass-produce a million American-made combat drones a year by 2028.
Robotics
Two Former Teenage Drone Racers Just Raised $250 Million to Build a Million Drones a Year
Neros just raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation—roughly triple its worth nine months ago—to scale toward a million American-made drones a year by 2028.
Defense Tech
A Robot-Run Factory Startup Just Raised $1.37 Billion — and Its Valuation Quintupled Since January
Hadrian raised $1.37B at a $7.87B valuation to scale AI-run factories making parts for rockets, subs, and jets — its price tag quintupled since January.
Robotics
A Humanoid Robot Maker Just IPO'd at $9 Billion — and Unlike Its Rivals, It Turns a Profit
Unitree priced its Shanghai IPO at $9.04 billion — the first public humanoid robot maker, and the only one turning a profit while rivals like Figure AI sit at $39B with no revenue.
Robotics
Enigma Just Put $71 Million on a Bet That the Robot Isn't the Hard Part
Enigma exited stealth with a $71 million seed - one of robotics' largest first checks - on a contrarian bet: the bottleneck isn't smarter robots, it's making them usable.
Robotics
Psibot Sells the Brain, Not the Robot — and Chery Just Valued It at $1.48 Billion
China's Psibot just hit a $1.48 billion valuation with automaker Chery leading the round — and it's selling the robot brain, not the robot.
Startups
Uber Fired Travis Kalanick in 2017. This Week It Helped Him Raise $1.7 Billion.
Travis Kalanick's new company Atoms just raised $1.7 billion in an a16z-led round for industrial AI — and Uber, the company that fired him in 2017, is one of the backers.
Robotics
A Two-Year-Old London Startup Just Became Europe's First Humanoid Robot Unicorn — Before Shipping a Single Robot
London's Humanoid raised a $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation to become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robot unicorn — two years old, and not a single robot shipped.
Robotics
Walden Robotics Cut Off the Legs, Raised $300 Million, and Put Its Robots to Work Today
Walden Robotics left stealth with a $300M seed at a $1.1B valuation — and its wheeled robots are already working in a Toyota factory.
Robotics
China's Humanoid Robot Startups Are All Racing to IPO — and the Clock Is the Whole Story
Unitree, LimX and Agility are racing to the public markets at the same moment. Here's why the timing is the whole story.