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    "Nvidia",
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    "Lux Capital",
    "Bond",
    "Bezos Expeditions",
    "Khosla Ventures",
    "Sequoia Capital"
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   "note": "Led by Alphabet's CapitalG; the round followed the pi0.5 and pi0.6 model releases.",
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    "Benchmark",
    "Conviction"
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   "note": "Came out of stealth with the Memo home robot (wheeled base, humanoid upper body) trained from a glove-based data capture system.",
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    "SoftBank Group"
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   "note": "SoftBank agreed to buy ABB's robotics division for USD 5.375 billion, framing it as a physical AI play. Industrial arms rather than humanoids, but the buyer is also a lead investor in Skild AI.",
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    {
     "title": "SoftBank Group press releases",
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     "date": "2025-10-08",
     "publisher": "SoftBank Group"
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   "lead_investors": [
    "Parkway Venture Capital"
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    "Parkway Venture Capital",
    "Nvidia",
    "Brookfield Asset Management",
    "Macquarie Capital",
    "Intel Capital",
    "LG Technology Ventures",
    "Salesforce",
    "T-Mobile Ventures",
    "Qualcomm Ventures",
    "Align Ventures",
    "Tamarack Global"
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   "note": "Figure said the round was over USD 1 billion; the post-money valuation of USD 39 billion was a 15x step up from the Series B. Brookfield also agreed to supply a large-scale pretraining dataset from its real-estate portfolio.",
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     "date": "2025-09-16",
     "publisher": "Reuters"
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    {
     "title": "Figure newsroom",
     "url": "https://www.figure.ai/news",
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     "publisher": "Figure AI"
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   "note": "Reported in September 2025 that 1X was seeking up to USD 1 billion at a valuation above USD 10 billion ahead of the NEO consumer launch (October 28, 2025). Closing details to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "1X newsroom",
     "url": "https://www.1x.tech/discover",
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     "publisher": "1X Technologies"
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   "note": "Apptronik acquired Elevate Robotics, a startup building large-scale mobile manipulation for heavy industrial work. Terms not disclosed.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Apptronik newsroom",
     "url": "https://apptronik.com/news",
     "date": "2025-09",
     "publisher": "Apptronik"
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    "Lux Capital"
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    "CRV",
    "Lux Capital",
    "Amplify Partners",
    "First Round Capital"
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   "note": "Valuation as reported by the company and press at announcement.",
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    {
     "title": "Dyna Robotics",
     "url": "https://www.dyna.co",
     "date": "2025-09",
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    "Mirae Asset"
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   "investors": [
    "LG Electronics",
    "Mirae Asset"
   ],
   "note": "LG Electronics and Mirae Asset joined a strategic round in AgiBot, the first major Korean investment in a Chinese humanoid maker; size not disclosed.",
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    {
     "title": "AgiBot",
     "url": "https://www.agibot.com",
     "date": "2025-08",
     "publisher": "AgiBot"
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    "Prysm Capital",
    "Temasek"
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    "Bezos Expeditions",
    "Prysm Capital",
    "Temasek",
    "Khosla Ventures",
    "Gates Frontier",
    "Emerson Collective",
    "Nvidia (NVentures)",
    "Intel Capital"
   ],
   "note": "USD 405 million across two rounds announced together; Field AI builds embodied AI for legged and humanoid robots rather than its own humanoid hardware.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Field AI",
     "url": "https://fieldai.com",
     "date": "2025-08",
     "publisher": "Field AI"
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   "valuation_type": null,
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   "note": "Unitree filed for pre-IPO tutoring with the Zhejiang securities regulator on July 18, 2025 (CITIC Securities as sponsor) ahead of a Shanghai STAR Market listing; the prospectus application followed later in 2025. Listing status in 2026 to be verified.",
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    {
     "title": "Unitree news",
     "url": "https://www.unitree.com/news",
     "date": "2025-07-18",
     "publisher": "Unitree Robotics"
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    "AgiBot"
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   "note": "AgiBot agreed to take control of Shanghai-listed Swancor Advanced Materials (SSE 603906) by buying about 63.6 percent for roughly CNY 2.1 billion (about USD 293 million), widely read as a path to a public listing.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "AgiBot",
     "url": "https://www.agibot.com",
     "date": "2025-07-08",
     "publisher": "AgiBot"
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   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Eclipse Ventures",
    "Khosla Ventures"
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    "Eclipse Ventures",
    "Khosla Ventures",
    "Bpifrance",
    "HSG",
    "Xavier Niel",
    "Eric Schmidt"
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   "note": "Paris and Palo Alto based; builds the Genesis physics simulation engine and a general robot foundation model.",
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    {
     "title": "Genesis AI",
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     "date": "2025-07-01",
     "publisher": "Genesis AI"
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   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "CDH Investments"
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    "CDH Investments",
    "Beijing Robot Industry Fund",
    "Tsinghua Holdings",
    "Legend Capital"
   ],
   "note": "Tsinghua spin-off Robotera (Star Dynamics, Beijing; STAR1, L7, Q5) raised close to CNY 500 million (about USD 70 million) in a Series A round in mid 2025; lead investor as reported by Chinese media, to be verified.",
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    {
     "title": "Robotera",
     "url": "https://www.robotera.com",
     "date": "2025-07",
     "publisher": "Robotera"
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  {
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   "date": "2025-06",
   "round": "Series A",
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   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
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    "Mercedes-Benz",
    "Japan Post Capital"
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   "note": "Extension that lifted the Series A to about USD 403 million. Mercedes-Benz had disclosed an equity investment in Apptronik in March 2025 alongside its Apollo pilot. Exact closing date and full investor list to be confirmed.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Apptronik newsroom",
     "url": "https://apptronik.com/news",
     "date": "2025-06",
     "publisher": "Apptronik"
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   ]
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   "date": "2025-06",
   "round": "Series A",
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   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
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    "Puquan Capital"
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    "CATL",
    "Puquan Capital",
    "Beijing Robot Industry Fund",
    "Beijing AI Industry Fund",
    "IDG Capital",
    "Meituan"
   ],
   "note": "Series A++ of CNY 1.1 billion (about USD 153 million) led by battery maker CATL and its Puquan Capital; lifted cumulative funding to about CNY 2.4 billion.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Galbot",
     "url": "https://www.galbot.com",
     "date": "2025-06",
     "publisher": "Galbot"
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   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "unitree-2025-06-series-c",
   "company": "unitree",
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   "round": "Series C",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": 1700000000,
   "valuation_type": "reported",
   "lead_investors": [
    "China Mobile (Zhongyi Capital)",
    "Tencent",
    "Alibaba",
    "Geely Capital"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "China Mobile (Zhongyi Capital)",
    "Tencent",
    "Alibaba",
    "Geely Capital",
    "Ant Group",
    "Meituan",
    "Shenzhen Capital Group"
   ],
   "note": "Series C disclosed via business registry changes in June 2025; Chinese reports put the post-money valuation above CNY 10 billion (roughly USD 1.4 to 1.7 billion) and the size at several hundred million yuan. Exact size not announced.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Unitree news",
     "url": "https://www.unitree.com/news",
     "date": "2025-06",
     "publisher": "Unitree Robotics"
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   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "wandercraft-2025-06-series-d",
   "company": "wandercraft",
   "date": "2025-06",
   "round": "Series D",
   "amount_usd": 75000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Renault Group",
    "Bpifrance",
    "Quadrant Management",
    "Teampact Ventures"
   ],
   "note": "French exoskeleton maker that announced the Calvin 40 humanoid (built in 40 days) with Renault; Renault took a minority stake.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Wandercraft",
     "url": "https://www.wandercraft.eu",
     "date": "2025-06",
     "publisher": "Wandercraft"
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   ]
  },
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   "company": "foxconn",
   "date": "2025-05-19",
   "round": "strategic",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Foxconn",
    "Nvidia"
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   "investors": [],
   "note": "Not an equity round: Foxconn and Nvidia said humanoid robots would work at Foxconn's new Houston plant building Nvidia AI servers from 2026, and Foxconn showed its own Nvidia-based humanoids at its November 2025 Tech Day. Listed here because it anchors the Nvidia and Foxconn humanoid initiatives.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Foxconn newsroom",
     "url": "https://www.foxconn.com/en-us/press-center",
     "date": "2025-05-19",
     "publisher": "Foxconn"
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  {
   "id": "hugging-face-2025-04-acquisition-pollen",
   "company": "hugging-face",
   "date": "2025-04-14",
   "round": "acquisition",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Hugging Face"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Hugging Face"
   ],
   "note": "Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics (Reachy 2 open-source humanoid upper body); terms not disclosed. Basis of the LeRobot hardware line.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Hugging Face blog",
     "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog",
     "date": "2025-04-14",
     "publisher": "Hugging Face"
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   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "agility-robotics-2025-04-series-c-reported",
   "company": "agility-robotics",
   "date": "2025-04",
   "round": "Series C",
   "amount_usd": 400000000,
   "valuation_usd": 1750000000,
   "valuation_type": "pre-money",
   "lead_investors": [
    "WP Global Partners"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "WP Global Partners"
   ],
   "note": "Reported by The Information and Bloomberg in April 2025 as a round in progress at a USD 1.75 billion pre-money valuation; final closed size and post-money valuation not confirmed by the company at the time of this draft.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Agility Robotics newsroom",
     "url": "https://www.agilityrobotics.com/newsroom",
     "date": "2025-04",
     "publisher": "Agility Robotics"
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   ]
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  {
   "id": "rlwrld-2025-04-seed",
   "company": "rlwrld",
   "date": "2025-04",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": 14800000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Hashed"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Hashed",
    "Mirae Asset Venture Investment",
    "Global Brain",
    "LG Technology Ventures",
    "SBI Investment"
   ],
   "note": "Seoul robot foundation model startup; the seed round was among the largest in Korea in 2025.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "RLWRLD",
     "url": "https://www.rlwrld.com",
     "date": "2025-04",
     "publisher": "RLWRLD"
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   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "china-national-2025-03-venture-guidance-fund",
   "company": "government-china",
   "date": "2025-03-06",
   "round": "grant",
   "amount_usd": 138000000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "National Development and Reform Commission"
   ],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "The NDRC announced a national venture capital guidance fund expected to mobilise about CNY 1 trillion (roughly USD 138 billion) over 20 years, naming embodied AI and humanoid robots among priority areas. A fund-of-funds, not a direct humanoid budget.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "State Council of China news",
     "url": "https://english.www.gov.cn",
     "date": "2025-03-06",
     "publisher": "State Council of the PRC"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "agibot-2025-03-series-b",
   "company": "agibot",
   "date": "2025-03",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": 2100000000,
   "valuation_type": "reported",
   "lead_investors": [
    "Tencent"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Tencent",
    "Longcheer Technology",
    "Wolong Electric",
    "Hillhouse Capital"
   ],
   "note": "Series B reported in March 2025 with Tencent as a new strategic investor; valuation reported at about CNY 15 billion (roughly USD 2.1 billion). Size not disclosed.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "AgiBot",
     "url": "https://www.agibot.com",
     "date": "2025-03",
     "publisher": "AgiBot"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "dyna-robotics-2025-03-seed",
   "company": "dyna-robotics",
   "date": "2025-03",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": 23500000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "CRV",
    "First Round Capital"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "CRV",
    "First Round Capital"
   ],
   "note": "Founded by Lindon Gao and York Yang; builds foundation models for dual-arm manipulation (DYNA-1).",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Dyna Robotics",
     "url": "https://www.dyna.co",
     "date": "2025-03",
     "publisher": "Dyna Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "engineai-2025-03-pre-a",
   "company": "engineai",
   "date": "2025-03",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": 28000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Ant Group (Antgroup Strategic)",
    "Fenghe Capital",
    "Hong Kong Investment Corporation"
   ],
   "note": "Shenzhen EngineAI (founded 2023, PM01, SE01, T800) closed Pre-A and Pre-A+ rounds of close to CNY 200 million (about USD 28 million) in early 2025 after its front-flip videos; a larger Series A later in 2025 to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "EngineAI",
     "url": "https://www.engineai.com.cn",
     "date": "2025-03",
     "publisher": "EngineAI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "shenzhen-2025-03-ai-robotics-fund",
   "company": "government-shenzhen",
   "date": "2025-03",
   "round": "grant",
   "amount_usd": 1380000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Shenzhen municipal government"
   ],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Shenzhen's 2025 to 2027 embodied AI action plan included a CNY 10 billion (about USD 1.38 billion) AI and robotics industry fund plus subsidies; the city hosts UBTech, Unitree's rival EngineAI, LimX, Leju and Dobot.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Shenzhen municipal government",
     "url": "https://www.sz.gov.cn",
     "date": "2025-03",
     "publisher": "Shenzhen Municipal Government"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "the-bot-company-2025-03-series-b-reported",
   "company": "the-bot-company",
   "date": "2025-03",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": 150000000,
   "valuation_usd": 4000000000,
   "valuation_type": "reported",
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Reported by Bloomberg in March 2025 as a further USD 150 million at a USD 4 billion valuation. The company has not shown a product publicly.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "The Bot Company",
     "url": "https://www.thebotcompany.com",
     "date": "2025-03",
     "publisher": "The Bot Company"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "apptronik-2025-02-series-a",
   "company": "apptronik",
   "date": "2025-02-13",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": 350000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "B Capital",
    "Capital Factory"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "B Capital",
    "Capital Factory",
    "Google"
   ],
   "note": "Largest humanoid round of early 2025. Google participated alongside the existing Google DeepMind development partnership announced in December 2024.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Apptronik newsroom",
     "url": "https://apptronik.com/news",
     "date": "2025-02-13",
     "publisher": "Apptronik"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "neura-robotics-2025-01-series-b",
   "company": "neura-robotics",
   "date": "2025-01-16",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": 124000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Lingotto"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Lingotto",
    "BlueCrest Capital Management",
    "Volvo Cars Tech Fund",
    "InterAlpen Partners",
    "Vsquared Ventures",
    "HV Capital",
    "L-Bank",
    "Delta Electronics"
   ],
   "note": "EUR 120 million round (about USD 124 million) led by Lingotto, the Exor investment manager. In September 2025 the FT reported Neura was seeking up to EUR 1 billion more.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Neura Robotics newsroom",
     "url": "https://neura-robotics.com/news",
     "date": "2025-01-16",
     "publisher": "Neura Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "fourier-2025-01-series-e",
   "company": "fourier",
   "date": "2025-01",
   "round": "Series E",
   "amount_usd": 110000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Prosperity7 Ventures",
    "Guoxin Investment",
    "Zhejiang University Lianchuang",
    "SIP Oriza"
   ],
   "note": "Round of close to CNY 800 million (about USD 110 million) for the Shanghai company behind GR-1, GR-2 and the open-source N1; Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 had also backed earlier rounds. Lead investor reporting was inconsistent.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Fourier",
     "url": "https://www.fftai.com",
     "date": "2025-01",
     "publisher": "Fourier"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "beijing-2025-01-robotics-fund",
   "company": "government-beijing",
   "date": "2025-01",
   "round": "grant",
   "amount_usd": 13800000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Beijing municipal government"
   ],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Beijing announced a government investment fund of CNY 100 billion (about USD 13.8 billion) covering robotics, AI and information industries; the city also runs the Beijing Robot Industry Fund and the state-backed Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (X-Humanoid, Tiangong).",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Beijing municipal government",
     "url": "https://english.beijing.gov.cn",
     "date": "2025-01",
     "publisher": "Beijing Municipal Government"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "booster-robotics-2025-series-a",
   "company": "booster-robotics",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Beijing company (founded 2023, Booster T1 and K1 research and competition humanoids) reported several hundred million yuan raised across angel, pre-A and A rounds in 2024 and 2025; exact sizes to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Booster Robotics",
     "url": "https://www.boosterobotics.com",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Booster Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "generalist-ai-2025-seed",
   "company": "generalist-ai",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Founded 2024 by Pete Florence (ex Google DeepMind); publishes GEN-0 robot foundation models trained on very large manipulation datasets. Round details to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Generalist AI",
     "url": "https://generalistai.com",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Generalist AI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "shanghai-2025-humanoid-fund",
   "company": "government-shanghai",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "grant",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Shanghai municipal government"
   ],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Shanghai backs the National and Local Co-built Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (Lingang) and set up municipal funds for embodied AI; a dedicated humanoid fund of about CNY 1 billion was reported in 2025. Sizes to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Shanghai municipal government",
     "url": "https://english.shanghai.gov.cn",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Shanghai Municipal Government"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "humanoid-uk-2025-strategic",
   "company": "humanoid-uk",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "London-based Humanoid (founded 2024 by Artem Sokolov, HMND 01 and HMND 01 Alpha) has been largely founder-funded; public round details to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Humanoid",
     "url": "https://thehumanoid.ai",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Humanoid"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "leju-robotics-2025-series-c",
   "company": "leju",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "Series C",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Huawei ecosystem investors"
   ],
   "note": "Shenzhen Leju Robotics (Kuavo humanoids, HarmonyOS partner of Huawei) raised multiple rounds in 2024 and 2025 and prepared a Shenzhen listing; sizes to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Leju Robotics",
     "url": "https://www.lejurobot.com",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Leju Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "limx-dynamics-2025-series-b",
   "company": "limx-dynamics",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Alibaba",
    "Ant Group",
    "Shenzhen Capital Group"
   ],
   "note": "Shenzhen company (founded 2022, TRON 1, CL-1, Oli humanoids) reported a Series B of roughly CNY 500 million in 2025 with Alibaba-linked investors; to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "LimX Dynamics",
     "url": "https://www.limxdynamics.com",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "LimX Dynamics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "magiclab-2025-series-a",
   "company": "magiclab",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "MagicLab (Suzhou, MagicBot series) is affiliated with the founder of Dreame Technology and has been largely funded from that ecosystem; external round details to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "MagicLab",
     "url": "https://www.magiclab.top",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "MagicLab"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "persona-ai-2025-seed",
   "company": "persona-ai",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Houston-based, founded 2024 by Nicolaus Radford (ex Nauticus Robotics, ex NASA Valkyrie); building rugged industrial humanoids with HD Hyundai for shipyard welding. Round sizes to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Persona AI",
     "url": "https://www.persona-ai.com",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Persona AI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "skild-ai-2025-series-b-reported",
   "company": "skild-ai",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": 4000000000,
   "valuation_type": "reported",
   "lead_investors": [
    "SoftBank Group"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "SoftBank Group",
    "Nvidia"
   ],
   "note": "Reported in early 2025 that SoftBank was leading a round of about USD 500 million at a USD 4 billion valuation; Nvidia was later reported as a participant. Final terms to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Skild AI",
     "url": "https://www.skild.ai",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "Skild AI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "ubtech-2025-placements",
   "company": "ubtech",
   "date": "2025",
   "round": "strategic",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "UBTech raised additional capital through several Hong Kong share placements in 2025 to fund Walker S mass production; individual placement sizes to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "UBTech investor relations",
     "url": "https://www.ubtrobot.com",
     "date": "2025",
     "publisher": "UBTech Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "rainbow-robotics-2024-12-strategic-samsung",
   "company": "rainbow-robotics",
   "date": "2024-12-31",
   "round": "strategic",
   "amount_usd": 180000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Samsung Electronics"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Samsung Electronics"
   ],
   "note": "Samsung exercised a call option to raise its stake from 14.7 percent to 35 percent for about KRW 267 billion (roughly USD 180 million), making Rainbow Robotics a consolidated subsidiary and creating a Future Robotics Office under Samsung.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Samsung Electronics newsroom",
     "url": "https://news.samsung.com/global/",
     "date": "2024-12-31",
     "publisher": "Samsung Electronics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "physical-intelligence-2024-11-series-a",
   "company": "physical-intelligence",
   "date": "2024-11-04",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": 400000000,
   "valuation_usd": 2400000000,
   "valuation_type": "post-money",
   "lead_investors": [
    "Jeff Bezos",
    "Thrive Capital",
    "Lux Capital"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Jeff Bezos",
    "Thrive Capital",
    "Lux Capital",
    "OpenAI",
    "Sequoia Capital",
    "Bond",
    "Khosla Ventures"
   ],
   "note": "Announced days after the pi0 model release.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Physical Intelligence",
     "url": "https://www.physicalintelligence.company",
     "date": "2024-11-04",
     "publisher": "Physical Intelligence"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "boston-dynamics-2024-10-strategic-toyota",
   "company": "boston-dynamics",
   "date": "2024-10-16",
   "round": "strategic",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Toyota Research Institute"
   ],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Research partnership, not an equity investment: Toyota Research Institute's Large Behavior Models are trained and run on the electric Atlas. Included because it is often cited alongside investments.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announce partnership",
     "url": "https://bostondynamics.com/news/",
     "date": "2024-10-16",
     "publisher": "Boston Dynamics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "skild-ai-2024-07-series-a",
   "company": "skild-ai",
   "date": "2024-07-09",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": 300000000,
   "valuation_usd": 1500000000,
   "valuation_type": "post-money",
   "lead_investors": [
    "Lightspeed Venture Partners",
    "Coatue",
    "SoftBank Group",
    "Bezos Expeditions"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Lightspeed Venture Partners",
    "Coatue",
    "SoftBank Group",
    "Bezos Expeditions",
    "Menlo Ventures",
    "Sequoia Capital",
    "General Catalyst",
    "CRV",
    "Amazon",
    "Felicis",
    "Carnegie Mellon University"
   ],
   "note": "Robot foundation model company spun out of Carnegie Mellon; not a humanoid maker itself but its models target humanoid and other bodies.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Skild AI",
     "url": "https://www.skild.ai",
     "date": "2024-07-09",
     "publisher": "Skild AI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "galbot-2024-06-series-a",
   "company": "galbot",
   "date": "2024-06",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": 97000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Meituan Strategic Investment"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Meituan Strategic Investment",
    "BAIC Industry Investment",
    "SenseTime Guoxiang Capital",
    "Vision Plus Capital",
    "Beijing Robot Industry Fund",
    "Hongtai Fund"
   ],
   "note": "Galaxy General Robot (Galbot, Beijing, founded May 2023 by Wang He of Peking University) raised about CNY 700 million (roughly USD 97 million) in a Series A that brought cumulative funding past CNY 1.2 billion within a year of founding.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Galbot",
     "url": "https://www.galbot.com",
     "date": "2024-06",
     "publisher": "Galbot"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "mentee-robotics-2024-strategic",
   "company": "mentee-robotics",
   "date": "2024-04",
   "round": "strategic",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Amnon Shashua"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Amnon Shashua"
   ],
   "note": "Israeli humanoid company founded 2022 by Amnon Shashua (Mobileye founder), Lior Wolf and Shai Shalev-Shwartz; unveiled its MenteeBot in April 2024. Funding has come mainly from its founders; reported acquisition interest from Mobileye to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Mentee Robotics",
     "url": "https://www.menteebot.com",
     "date": "2024-04",
     "publisher": "Mentee Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "agibot-2024-03-series-a",
   "company": "agibot",
   "date": "2024-03",
   "round": "Series A",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": 980000000,
   "valuation_type": "reported",
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Hillhouse Capital",
    "HongShan (Sequoia China)",
    "BYD",
    "Lanchi Ventures",
    "Dingfeng Asset",
    "Stone Capital",
    "Cathay Capital",
    "SAIC",
    "Shanghai Lingang Group"
   ],
   "note": "AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics, Shanghai, founded February 2023 by Peng Zhihui) closed a string of Series A rounds (A, A+, A++, A+++) between 2023 and early 2024; Chinese reports placed the valuation near CNY 7 billion (about USD 1 billion) after the A+++ round. Individual round sizes were not disclosed.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "AgiBot",
     "url": "https://www.agibot.com",
     "date": "2024-03",
     "publisher": "AgiBot"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "physical-intelligence-2024-03-seed",
   "company": "physical-intelligence",
   "date": "2024-03",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": 70000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Thrive Capital"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Thrive Capital",
    "Khosla Ventures",
    "Lux Capital",
    "OpenAI",
    "Sequoia Capital"
   ],
   "note": "Founded by Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn and others to build general robot foundation models (pi0 family).",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Physical Intelligence",
     "url": "https://www.physicalintelligence.company",
     "date": "2024-03",
     "publisher": "Physical Intelligence"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sanctuary-ai-2024-03-strategic-accenture",
   "company": "sanctuary-ai",
   "date": "2024-03",
   "round": "strategic",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Accenture Ventures"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Accenture Ventures"
   ],
   "note": "Undisclosed strategic investment by Accenture Ventures; Microsoft announced a separate technology collaboration (no equity disclosed) in April 2024. Sanctuary cut staff and changed leadership in 2025.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Sanctuary AI news",
     "url": "https://www.sanctuary.ai/news",
     "date": "2024-03",
     "publisher": "Sanctuary AI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "figure-ai-2024-02-series-b",
   "company": "figure-ai",
   "date": "2024-02-29",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": 675000000,
   "valuation_usd": 2600000000,
   "valuation_type": "post-money",
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Microsoft",
    "OpenAI Startup Fund",
    "Nvidia",
    "Jeff Bezos (Explore Investments)",
    "Parkway Venture Capital",
    "Intel Capital",
    "Align Ventures",
    "ARK Invest",
    "Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund",
    "Cathie Wood"
   ],
   "note": "Announced together with a collaboration agreement with OpenAI on AI models for humanoids (the OpenAI collaboration was ended by Figure in February 2025). No single lead was named.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Robotics startup Figure raises $675 mln from Microsoft, Nvidia, other big techs",
     "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/robotics-startup-figure-raises-675-mln-microsoft-nvidia-other-big-techs-2024-02-29/",
     "date": "2024-02-29",
     "publisher": "Reuters"
    },
    {
     "title": "Figure newsroom",
     "url": "https://www.figure.ai/news",
     "date": "2024-02-29",
     "publisher": "Figure AI"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "unitree-2024-02-series-b",
   "company": "unitree",
   "date": "2024-02",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": 140000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Meituan (Long-Z / Longzhu)"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "Meituan (Long-Z / Longzhu)",
    "Beijing Robot Industry Fund",
    "Shenzhen Capital Group",
    "Zhongguancun Kejin",
    "Source Code Capital",
    "Shunwei Capital"
   ],
   "note": "Round of close to CNY 1 billion (about USD 140 million) reported in Chinese media; the H1 humanoid had been unveiled in August 2023 and the G1 followed in May 2024.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Unitree news",
     "url": "https://www.unitree.com/news",
     "date": "2024-02",
     "publisher": "Unitree Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "1x-technologies-2024-01-series-b",
   "company": "1x",
   "date": "2024-01-11",
   "round": "Series B",
   "amount_usd": 100000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "EQT Ventures"
   ],
   "investors": [
    "EQT Ventures",
    "Samsung NEXT",
    "Nistad Group",
    "Sandwater",
    "Skagerak Capital"
   ],
   "note": "Funded the NEO home humanoid program and manufacturing scale-up in Norway.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "1X newsroom",
     "url": "https://www.1x.tech/discover",
     "date": "2024-01-11",
     "publisher": "1X Technologies"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "clone-robotics-2024-seed",
   "company": "clone-robotics",
   "date": "2024",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Polish and US company building the musculoskeletal Clone Alpha with artificial muscles; funding rounds small and mostly undisclosed.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Clone Robotics",
     "url": "https://clonerobotics.com",
     "date": "2024",
     "publisher": "Clone Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "k-scale-labs-2024-seed",
   "company": "k-scale-labs",
   "date": "2024",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Y Combinator"
   ],
   "note": "Palo Alto open-source humanoid company (K-Bot, Z-Bot); Y Combinator W24 batch; seed size to be verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "K-Scale Labs",
     "url": "https://kscale.dev",
     "date": "2024",
     "publisher": "K-Scale Labs"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "kepler-robotics-2024-angel",
   "company": "kepler",
   "date": "2024",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": null,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "Shanghai Kepler Robotics (founded 2023, Forerunner K1 and K2 Bumblebee) has disclosed little on funding; angel round reported in 2024 without size.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Kepler Robotics",
     "url": "https://www.gotokepler.com",
     "date": "2024",
     "publisher": "Kepler Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "the-bot-company-2024-seed-reported",
   "company": "the-bot-company",
   "date": "2024",
   "round": "seed",
   "amount_usd": 150000000,
   "valuation_usd": 2000000000,
   "valuation_type": "reported",
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [
    "Quiet Capital",
    "Spark Capital",
    "Stripe founders (Patrick and John Collison)",
    "Paul Graham",
    "Nat Friedman",
    "Daniel Gross"
   ],
   "note": "Home-robot startup founded by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt with Paril Jain and Luke Holoubek. Terms were reported by the press, not announced by the company.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "The Bot Company",
     "url": "https://www.thebotcompany.com",
     "date": "2024",
     "publisher": "The Bot Company"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "ubtech-2023-12-ipo",
   "company": "ubtech",
   "date": "2023-12-29",
   "round": "IPO",
   "amount_usd": 130000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [],
   "investors": [],
   "note": "UBTech Robotics listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (9880.HK) at HKD 90 per share, raising about HKD 1.0 billion (roughly USD 130 million); the first listed Chinese humanoid maker.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "UBTech investor relations",
     "url": "https://www.ubtrobot.com",
     "date": "2023-12-29",
     "publisher": "UBTech Robotics"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sanctuary-ai-2023-11-grant",
   "company": "sanctuary-ai",
   "date": "2023-11",
   "round": "grant",
   "amount_usd": 22000000,
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "valuation_type": null,
   "lead_investors": [
    "Government of Canada (Strategic Innovation Fund)"
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