Company & Robot DB

Builds general-purpose humanoid robots aimed at warehouse and manufacturing work, with a foundation-model brain developed in partnership with major AI labs.

Founded

2022

Founders

Brett Adcock

Products

Figure 02, Figure 03 humanoids

Funding

~$675M raised (as of 2026)

Key investors

Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Intel Capital and others

Develops the NEO humanoid, positioned for home use, alongside the wheeled EVE robot for commercial and security settings.

Founded

2014

Founders

Bernt Øivind Børnich

Products

NEO (home humanoid), EVE (wheeled, commercial)

Funding

~$100M+ raised (as of 2026)

Key investors

OpenAI, EQT Ventures and others

Builds general-purpose foundation models meant to control many different robot bodies for many different tasks, rather than building its own hardware.

Founded

2024

Founders

Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Brian Ichter, Lachy Groom

Products

π0, π0.5 general-purpose robot policies

Funding

~$1.1B raised through Series B (Nov 2025, $5.6B valuation); in talks for a further round at an $11B valuation (as of March 2026)

Key investors

OpenAI, Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital and others

Founded by Carnegie Mellon roboticists, building a general-purpose "brain" model intended to work across humanoids, quadrupeds, and industrial arms.

Founded

2023

Founders

Deepak Pathak, Abhinav Gupta

Products

Skild Brain general-purpose robot model

Funding

~$2.2B raised across Series A–C (as of Jan 2026); valued above $14B

Key investors

SoftBank, Nvidia, Samsung and others

Builds the Apollo humanoid robot, with deployment partnerships in automotive manufacturing (Mercedes-Benz) and logistics.

Founded

2016

Founders

Jeff Cardenas, Nick Paine

Products

Apollo humanoid

Funding

~$935M raised (as of 2026)

Key investors

Google, Mercedes-Benz and others

Makes the Digit humanoid, already in paid pilot deployment for warehouse tote-moving work — one of the earliest humanoids in commercial use.

Founded

2015

Founders

Damion Shelton, Jonathan Hurst

Products

Digit humanoid

Funding

~$400M raised (as of 2026)

Key investors

Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and others

Best known for relatively low-cost quadruped "robot dogs," now also selling the G1 humanoid at roughly $16,000 — among the cheapest humanoids on the market. World's top humanoid seller by units in 2025, with its first profitable year.

Founded

2016

Founders

Wang Xingxing

Products

G1 humanoid, Go2 / B2 quadrupeds

Funding

~$252M raised through Series C (June 2025); cleared final CSRC approval on July 3, 2026 for a Shanghai STAR Market IPO targeting ~$619M — not yet trading

Key investors

Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, ByteDance and others

Germany's best-funded humanoid robotics company, targeting 6,000 humanoid units produced in 2026 from a new facility in Baden-Württemberg. Remains privately held with no announced IPO plans.

Founded

2019

Founders

David Reger

Products

4NE1 humanoid, MiPA cognitive assistant robot

Funding

~$1.4B Series C (2026) at a $7B valuation — among the largest robotics funding rounds ever; order book above $1B

Key investors

Tether, Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch, Schaeffler, European Investment Bank

Japanese factory-automation/warehouse-AMR startup building both its own AMR hardware and in-house fleet-management/digital-twin software, positioned as a vertically integrated "design, build, operate" vendor.

Founded

2022

Founders

Takumi Watanabe

Products

Kagero series (heavy-duty AMR), Mikoshi series (lightweight AMR), fleet-management software

Funding

No disclosed equity funding round found — received an undisclosed-amount subordinated loan from Japan Policy Finance Corp. and Sugamo Shinkin Bank (May 2024)

Key investors

Japan Policy Finance Corporation, Sugamo Shinkin Bank (loan, not equity)

One of Japan's earliest cloud-robotics companies, spun out of ETH Zurich research; commercializes warehouse picking assistance, autonomous forklifts, and ASRS systems for logistics customers, backed by Goldman Sachs and Sony.

Founded

2014

Founders

Gajan Mohanarajah

Products

PA-AMR (piece-picking assist), Autonomous Forklift (AFL), Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS)

Funding

~$85M raised as of 2022 (figure varies $81–91M by source), including a $51M Series C (2022) led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Key investors

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Sony Innovation Fund, SBI Investment, Cyberdyne and others

Builds AMRs that restock convenience-store shelves and beverage coolers (deployed at FamilyMart), and is developing the humanoid robot Astra with Seven-Eleven Japan for generative-AI-driven retail tasks.

Founded

2017

Founders

Jin Tomioka, Genki Sano

Products

TX SCARA / TX Ghost (retail shelf-restocking robots), Astra humanoid (in development)

Funding

~$210M raised across 5 rounds (as of the $170M Series B, July 2023)

Key investors

SoftBank Group, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Airbus Ventures, Globis Capital Partners and others

One of Japan's oldest robotics ventures (founded 2001 as ZMP, rebranded ROBO-HI in 2025); makes autonomous towing vehicles, delivery and patrol robots, and a multi-vendor robot operating system. Withdrew a planned 2016 IPO and has remained private since.

Founded

2001

Founders

Hisashi Taniguchi

Products

RoboCar Tractor (autonomous towing), DeliRo (delivery), RakuRo (mobility), PATORO (security patrol), ROBO-HI OS

Funding

At least ¥1.5B (~$13M) confirmed via a 2017 funding round — cumulative total undisclosed/unverified beyond that

Key investors

Dentsu International Information Service, Nisshinbo Holdings, Toppan, Sumitomo Corp and others (2017 round)

University of Tsukuba-origin startup building "follow-me" collaborative robotic carts (THOUZER series) that assist warehouse and factory workers with material transport, rather than fully autonomous fleet robots.

Founded

2012

Founders

Akira Oshima

Products

THOUZER robotic transport cart series

Funding

No reliable public funding disclosure found

Key investors

Not publicly disclosed

Sells software — not its own robot hardware — that lets standard industrial robot arms handle unstructured pick, place, and palletizing tasks as a coordinated fleet, deployed at customers including Toyota and Fast Retailing (Uniqlo). A later-stage leader in this space rather than an early-stage peer.

Founded

2011

Founders

Issei Takino, Rosen Diankov

Products

MujinController / MujinOS (industrial robot-arm automation software)

Funding

~$411M raised total, including a $233M Series D initial close (Dec 2025) co-led by NTT Group and Qatar Investment Authority; valued above $1B and reportedly eyeing a 2030 IPO

Key investors

NTT Group, Qatar Investment Authority, Mitsubishi HC Capital Realty, Salesforce Ventures and others

Maker of the Skypod goods-to-person warehouse automation system, using climbing robots and high-density racking; deployed at multi-site scale with retailers including Decathlon across five European countries.

Founded

2015

Founders

Romain Moulin, Renaud Heitz

Products

Skypod (goods-to-person AS/RS), Skyfleet (multi-site fleet program)

Funding

~$446M raised total, including a $335M Series D (Jan 2022) at a $2B valuation — France's first industrial unicorn; no confirmed round since

Key investors

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Bpifrance, 83NORTH, Dell Technologies Capital and others

One of the most widely deployed warehouse-AMR fleets globally, with its LocusONE platform orchestrating robots that have completed over 6 billion warehouse picks as of late 2025.

Founded

2014

Founders

Bruce Welty, Rick Faulk

Products

LocusBot fleet (Origin, Vector, Max, Array), LocusONE orchestration platform

Funding

~$438M raised total, including a $117M Series F (Nov 2022) valuing the company near $2B; no new round reported since

Key investors

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, G2 Venture Partners, Next47 and others