Anvil Robotics
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About Anvil Robotics
Anvil's development workflow starts with demonstrations collected through a headset or a leader-follower robot arrangement. The same software supports OpenARM and OpenYAM hardware, including coordinated two-arm operation. Camera lenses, gripper fingers and dexterous-hand options let teams adapt the sensing and manipulation setup to the task they want a policy to learn.
LeRobot integration connects those demonstrations to model training and deployment, while ROS2 and Foxglove support engineering and inspection of the running system. The control stack includes inverse kinematics and motion planning alongside the hardware interfaces. Anvil sells configured kits through its store and supports teams adapting the platform for research or application development.
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Products
Observed use
- Anvil OpenARM 2.0 with MiraiBit Physical-AI R&D environment
2026-09-07 - Research Experiment - Trained With - MiraiBit operates OpenARM 2.0 as a physical teleoperation and manipulation-data collection environment for embodied-AI training and evaluation.
Source
Funding
- 2026-04-02 - Seed - $5.5M - Anvil raises $5.5M seed round for Physical AI devkits
Anvil raised a $5.5 million seed round, bringing disclosed funding to $6.5 million, to scale its composable Physical AI platform. - source: news.crunchbase.com
Investors
- DNX Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
- Humba Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
- Matter Venture Partners - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
- Position Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
- Spacecadet Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
- Vivek Sodera - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
Team
- Mike Xia - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer - Co-founded Anvil and leads its commercial platform, manufacturing and customer programme.
- Vijay Pradeep - Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer - Co-founded Anvil and leads robot controls, teleoperation and hardware-software integration.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-04-06 - Product Launch - Anvil launches integrated OpenARM and OpenYAM Physical AI devkits
The configurations combine physical robot hardware with Anvil controls, cameras and teleoperation software. Data-collection tooling exports demonstrations for robot-policy training and evaluation. Launch materials said Anvil had already shipped more than 100 robots to over 50 teams.
Source - 2026-04-02 - Funding - Anvil raises $5.5M seed round for Physical AI devkits
Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures co-led the seed round. DNX Ventures, Vivek Sodera, Spacecadet Ventures and Position Ventures also participated. Anvil said the capital would support customizable robot hardware, controls and development tooling for Physical AI teams.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Fern
Openarm Evaluation Hardware - Fern used Anvil Robotics OpenArm robots to validate its learned simulator and bimanual policy-evaluation workflow.
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