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Funding tracker

$6.5B and counting.

Every disclosed round, grant, strategic cheque, acquisition and listing we could source. Undisclosed amounts are listed without a number; they never inflate the totals.

$6.5B
Disclosed since 2015
$0
Disclosed in 2026 so far
69
Rounds and deals tracked
42
Companies with a disclosed round
By year

Disclosed capital per year.

2025$3.8B
2024$2.1B
2023$303M
2022$209M
2020$20M
Most funded

Companies by disclosed total.

Figure AI$1.8B$39B
Field AI$405M$2.0B
All rounds

Newest first.

DateCompanyRoundAmountValuationLead / investorsNoteSrc
Nov 2025Physical IntelligenceSeries B$600M$5.6BCapitalG, Nvidia, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, BondLed by Alphabet's CapitalG; the round followed the pi0.5 and pi0.6 model releases.src
Nov 2025sunday roboticsseed$35MBenchmark, ConvictionCame out of stealth with the Memo home robot (wheeled base, humanoid upper body) trained from a glove-based data capture system.src
8 Oct 2025SoftBank Roboticsacquisition$5.4BSoftBank GroupSoftBank 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.src
16 Sep 2025Figure AISeries C$1.0B$39BParkway Venture Capital, Nvidia, Brookfield Asset Management, Macquarie Capital, Intel CapitalFigure 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.src
Sep 20251X TechnologiesSeries Cn/d$10B*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.src
Sep 2025Apptronikacquisitionn/dApptronik acquired Elevate Robotics, a startup building large-scale mobile manipulation for heavy industrial work. Terms not disclosed.src
Sep 2025dyna roboticsSeries A$120M$600MCRV, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, First Round CapitalValuation as reported by the company and press at announcement.src
Aug 2025AgiBotstrategicn/dLG Electronics, Mirae AssetLG Electronics and Mirae Asset joined a strategic round in AgiBot, the first major Korean investment in a Chinese humanoid maker; size not disclosed.src
Aug 2025Field AISeries B$405M$2.0BBezos Expeditions, Prysm Capital, Temasek, Khosla Ventures, Gates FrontierUSD 405 million across two rounds announced together; Field AI builds embodied AI for legged and humanoid robots rather than its own humanoid hardware.src
18 Jul 2025Unitree RoboticsIPOn/dUnitree 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.src
8 Jul 2025AgiBotacquisition$293MAgiBotAgiBot 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.src
1 Jul 2025genesis aiseed$105MEclipse Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Bpifrance, HSG, Xavier NielParis and Palo Alto based; builds the Genesis physics simulation engine and a general robot foundation model.src
Jul 2025RoboteraSeries A$70MCDH Investments, Beijing Robot Industry Fund, Tsinghua Holdings, Legend CapitalTsinghua 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.src
Jun 2025ApptronikSeries A$53MMercedes-Benz, Japan Post CapitalExtension 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.src
Jun 2025GalbotSeries A$153MCATL, Puquan Capital, Beijing Robot Industry Fund, Beijing AI Industry Fund, IDG CapitalSeries 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.src
Jun 2025Unitree RoboticsSeries Cn/d$1.7B*China Mobile (Zhongyi Capital), Tencent, Alibaba, Geely Capital, Ant GroupSeries 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.src
Jun 2025WandercraftSeries D$75MRenault Group, Bpifrance, Quadrant Management, Teampact VenturesFrench exoskeleton maker that announced the Calvin 40 humanoid (built in 40 days) with Renault; Renault took a minority stake.src
19 May 2025Foxconn (Hon Hai)strategicn/dFoxconn, NvidiaNot 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.src
14 Apr 2025Hugging Faceacquisitionn/dHugging FaceHugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics (Reachy 2 open-source humanoid upper body); terms not disclosed. Basis of the LeRobot hardware line.src
Apr 2025Agility RoboticsSeries C$400M$1.8BWP Global PartnersReported 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.src
Apr 2025rlwrldseed$15MHashed, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Global Brain, LG Technology Ventures, SBI InvestmentSeoul robot foundation model startup; the seed round was among the largest in Korea in 2025.src
6 Mar 2025government chinagrant$138BNational Development and Reform CommissionThe 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.src
Mar 2025AgiBotSeries Bn/d$2.1B*Tencent, Longcheer Technology, Wolong Electric, Hillhouse CapitalSeries 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.src
Mar 2025dyna roboticsseed$24MCRV, First Round CapitalFounded by Lindon Gao and York Yang; builds foundation models for dual-arm manipulation (DYNA-1).src
Mar 2025EngineAISeries A$28MAnt Group (Antgroup Strategic), Fenghe Capital, Hong Kong Investment CorporationShenzhen 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.src
Mar 2025government shenzhengrant$1.4BShenzhen municipal governmentShenzhen'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.src
Mar 2025The Bot CompanySeries A$150M$4.0B*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.src
13 Feb 2025ApptronikSeries A$350MB Capital, Capital Factory, GoogleLargest humanoid round of early 2025. Google participated alongside the existing Google DeepMind development partnership announced in December 2024.src
16 Jan 2025Neura RoboticsSeries B$124MLingotto, BlueCrest Capital Management, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, InterAlpen Partners, Vsquared VenturesEUR 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.src
Jan 2025FourierSeries E$110MProsperity7 Ventures, Guoxin Investment, Zhejiang University Lianchuang, SIP OrizaRound 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.src
Jan 2025government beijinggrant$14BBeijing municipal governmentBeijing 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).src
2025Booster RoboticsSeries An/dBeijing 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.src
2025Generalist AIseedn/dFounded 2024 by Pete Florence (ex Google DeepMind); publishes GEN-0 robot foundation models trained on very large manipulation datasets. Round details to be verified.src
2025government shanghaigrantn/dShanghai municipal governmentShanghai 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.src
2025humanoid ukseedn/dLondon-based Humanoid (founded 2024 by Artem Sokolov, HMND 01 and HMND 01 Alpha) has been largely founder-funded; public round details to be verified.src
2025Leju RoboticsSeries Cn/dHuawei ecosystem investorsShenzhen Leju Robotics (Kuavo humanoids, HarmonyOS partner of Huawei) raised multiple rounds in 2024 and 2025 and prepared a Shenzhen listing; sizes to be verified.src
2025LimX DynamicsSeries Bn/dAlibaba, Ant Group, Shenzhen Capital GroupShenzhen 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.src
2025MagicLabSeries An/dMagicLab (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.src
2025Persona AIseedn/dHouston-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.src
2025Skild AISeries Bn/d$4.0B*SoftBank Group, NvidiaReported 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.src
2025UBTech Roboticsstrategicn/dUBTech raised additional capital through several Hong Kong share placements in 2025 to fund Walker S mass production; individual placement sizes to be verified.src
31 Dec 2024Rainbow Roboticsstrategic$180MSamsung ElectronicsSamsung 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.src
4 Nov 2024Physical IntelligenceSeries A$400M$2.4BJeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia CapitalAnnounced days after the pi0 model release.src
16 Oct 2024Boston Dynamicsstrategicn/dToyota Research InstituteResearch 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.src
9 Jul 2024Skild AISeries A$300M$1.5BLightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group, Bezos Expeditions, Menlo VenturesRobot foundation model company spun out of Carnegie Mellon; not a humanoid maker itself but its models target humanoid and other bodies.src
Jun 2024GalbotSeries A$97MMeituan Strategic Investment, BAIC Industry Investment, SenseTime Guoxiang Capital, Vision Plus Capital, Beijing Robot Industry FundGalaxy 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.src
Apr 2024Mentee Roboticsstrategicn/dAmnon ShashuaIsraeli 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.src
Mar 2024AgiBotSeries An/d$980M*Hillhouse Capital, HongShan (Sequoia China), BYD, Lanchi Ventures, Dingfeng AssetAgiBot (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.src
Mar 2024Physical Intelligenceseed$70MThrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia CapitalFounded by Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn and others to build general robot foundation models (pi0 family).src
Mar 2024Sanctuary AIstrategicn/dAccenture VenturesUndisclosed 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.src
29 Feb 2024Figure AISeries B$675M$2.6BMicrosoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos (Explore Investments), Parkway Venture CapitalAnnounced 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.src
Feb 2024Unitree RoboticsSeries B$140MMeituan (Long-Z / Longzhu), Beijing Robot Industry Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group, Zhongguancun Kejin, Source Code CapitalRound 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.src
11 Jan 20241X TechnologiesSeries B$100MEQT Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Nistad Group, Sandwater, Skagerak CapitalFunded the NEO home humanoid program and manufacturing scale-up in Norway.src
2024Clone Roboticsseedn/dPolish and US company building the musculoskeletal Clone Alpha with artificial muscles; funding rounds small and mostly undisclosed.src
2024K-Scale Labsseedn/dY CombinatorPalo Alto open-source humanoid company (K-Bot, Z-Bot); Y Combinator W24 batch; seed size to be verified.src
2024Kepler Roboticsseedn/dShanghai Kepler Robotics (founded 2023, Forerunner K1 and K2 Bumblebee) has disclosed little on funding; angel round reported in 2024 without size.src
2024The Bot Companyseed$150M$2.0B*Quiet Capital, Spark Capital, Stripe founders (Patrick and John Collison), Paul Graham, Nat FriedmanHome-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.src
29 Dec 2023UBTech RoboticsIPO$130MUBTech 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.src
Nov 2023Sanctuary AIgrant$22MGovernment of Canada (Strategic Innovation Fund)CAD 30 million contribution from the Strategic Innovation Fund to develop Phoenix general-purpose robots (about USD 22 million).src
12 Jul 2023Figure AIstrategic$9.0MIntel CapitalExtension of the Series A by Intel Capital; reported figure, amount taken from company statements at the time.src
24 May 2023Figure AISeries A$70MParkway Venture Capital, Bold Capital Partners, Aliya Capital Partners, Tamarack, FJ LabsFirst institutional round, announced with the Figure 01 prototype program. Valuation not disclosed.src
23 Mar 20231X TechnologiesSeries A$24MOpenAI Startup Fund, Tiger Global, Sandwater, Alliance Ventures, Skagerak CapitalDescribed by the company as a Series A2; it financed the EVE wheeled humanoid rollout and the start of the NEO bipedal program.src
3 Jan 2023Rainbow Roboticsstrategic$48MSamsung ElectronicsSamsung bought a 10.22 percent stake (later 14.83 percent after a further March 2023 purchase) for about KRW 59 billion, roughly USD 48 million.src
5 Apr 2022Agility RoboticsSeries B$150MDCVC, Playground Global, Amazon Industrial Innovation FundAmazon's Industrial Innovation Fund joined; Agility later opened RoboFab in Salem, Oregon (2023) and started the GXO deployment (2024).src
Mar 2022Sanctuary AISeries A$59MBell, Evok Innovations, Export Development Canada, Magna, SE HealthCAD 75.5 million round (about USD 58.5 million at the time). Magna later became a manufacturing and deployment partner.src
11 Dec 2020Boston Dynamicsacquisition$880M$1.1B*Hyundai Motor Group, SoftBank GroupHyundai Motor Group agreed to acquire a controlling 80 percent stake for about USD 880 million at a USD 1.1 billion valuation; SoftBank retained 20 percent. The deal closed June 21, 2021.src
Jan 2020Agility RoboticsSeries A$20MDCVC, Playground Global, Sony Innovation FundFunded the first commercial Digit units, including the Ford delivery research program.src
9 Jun 2017Boston Dynamicsacquisitionn/dSoftBank GroupSoftBank bought Boston Dynamics (and Schaft) from Alphabet; price not disclosed.src
13 Dec 2013Boston Dynamicsacquisitionn/dGoogleGoogle acquired Boston Dynamics for an undisclosed sum as part of its Android-era robotics push under Andy Rubin.src

* reported valuation, not confirmed by the company. n/d = not disclosed.