A&K Robotics raises $8M Series A to scale Cruz autonomous pods at Vancouver and Madrid airports. The company's crowd-aware Kinesos AI tackles indoor mobility where road AVs don't go.
Robotics venture funding hit $23B in the first half of 2026, matching all of 2025. Here is where the money is going — by company, category, and geography.
Ex-Waymo engineers raised $270M to retrofit excavators and bulldozers with autonomy — turning construction equipment into machines that work without operators.
The WEF's 3C framework — combination, convergence, compounding — explains why the winners in tech are no longer the most advanced, but the most ready to integrate.
Three former Apple Face ID engineers built LyteVision — a unified perception stack that fuses 4D sensing, RGB, and motion data into a single platform for robots and physical AI.
Physical Intelligence released π0.7, a robot foundation model that folds shirts it has never seen and cooks with appliances it has never used. The GPT moment for physical AI has arrived.
Neura Robotics raised up to $1.4B in Series C backed by Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch, and Tether — the largest round ever for a full-stack robotics company.
Humanoid robots shift from prototypes to commercial deployment in 2026 as Figure AI, Agility, and Tesla scale production for factory and warehouse work.