Walden Robotics
About
About Walden Robotics
Walden Robotics develops general-purpose physical-AI robots for manufacturing environments. Formed from Toyota Research Institute's robotics work, the company combines autonomous manipulation with remote human assistance so machines can learn and perform varied production activities while operators handle unusual or difficult situations.
Its first systems entered production use at Toyota Motor North America in 2026, moving the technology beyond laboratory demonstrations into an active factory. Walden focuses on tasks that are physically demanding, repetitive or difficult to automate with fixed equipment. The operating model uses real workplace data and human intervention to improve performance as deployments encounter new parts, layouts and process variation.
Articles
Funding
- 2026-07-15 - Seed - $300M - Walden Robotics raises $300M seed funding at $1.1B valuation
valuation: $1.1B - Walden Robotics raised $300 million in seed funding co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital to scale its full-stack Physical AI robots for manufacturing and logistics, concurrent with its public launch from stealth. - source: waldenrobotics.com
Investors
- AE Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Boeing - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Calibrate Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Colle Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- CoreWeave Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Deviation Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- KAS Venture Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Menlo Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- NextView Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- NVIDIA - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- One Madison Group - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Prologis Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Samsung Ventures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-15
- Shine Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Squarepoint Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-15
- Toyota Invention Partners - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-15
- Toyota Motor Corporation - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-15
- Toyota Ventures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-15
Team
- Russ Tedrake - Co-Founder & CEO - Leads Walden and the commercialization of Large Behavior Models for industrial robots.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-07-28 - Partnership - Walden Robotics and Samsung SDS begin manufacturing proof of concept
Samsung SDS and Walden are collaborating on a proof of concept for core manufacturing use cases. The work targets high-precision industries including semiconductors, batteries, displays and biomanufacturing. The collaboration follows Samsung Ventures' participation in Walden's previously announced $300 million seed round.
Source - 2026-07-15 - Funding - Walden Robotics raises $300M seed funding at $1.1B valuation
Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Invention Partners, Toyota Ventures and Deviation Capital co-led the round. NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prologis Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures and financial investors also participated. Walden spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026 and says its robots have performed production work at a Toyota North American plant since February.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Samsung SDS
Manufacturing Proof Of Concept Partner - Walden Robotics and Samsung SDS are collaborating on a proof of concept for core manufacturing use cases in high-precision industries.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Perceptyne
comparable profile - Semi Humanoid General Purpose Robot Builder
Context tags
- Semi-humanoid factory tasks - Workflow - Walden names machine tending, tool setting, parts kitting and assembly as deployed workflows.
- Semi-humanoid general purpose robot builder - Peer Group - Semi is presented as a general-purpose industrial robot for manufacturing and logistics.
- Vertically integrated humanoid builder - Peer Group - Walden states that it builds hardware, software, Physical AI and the application layer.