Anvil Robotics raises $6.5M to build a modular hardware and software platform for physical AI teams
The eight-month-old Palo Alto startup manufactures open-source robotic development kits in Taiwan and ships custom orders globally within two days; it has delivered 100-plus units to more than 50 organisations since commercial launch.
Anvil Robotics has raised $5.5 million in seed funding led by Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures, with participation from DNX Ventures, Spacecadet Ventures, Position Ventures, and Superhuman founder Vivek Sodera, following a $1 million pre-seed from Matter in 2025. Total funding stands at $6.5 million.
The founders and the problem
Mike Xia, CEO, and Vijay Pradeep, CTO, founded Anvil Robotics in July 2025 after spending six months talking to businesses before writing a line of code. They found that physical AI teams across companies of all sizes were spending more than six months assembling robot arms, cameras, and open-source libraries to reach a working prototype, with controllers, teleoperation systems, and data pipelines each requiring custom builds from scratch.
Xia described the core problem as too much of the robotics stack still requiring ground-up assembly by each team, and said the goal of Anvil is to make the kind of setup that used to require a large, experienced team accessible to a graduate student with lab funding.
The platform
Anvil offers open-source, customisable robotic development kits priced between $1,900 and $10,000. The platform integrates hardware and software in a composable stack, including robot controllers, teleoperation tools, data pipelines, and inverse kinematics solvers, with compatibility for ROS2 and LeRobot frameworks. Components are designed to be mixed and customised across different robotic configurations, supporting research, enterprise, and startup use cases without requiring teams to commit to proprietary hardware or software ecosystems.
Manufacturing
Anvil manufactures through its own facility in Taiwan rather than relying on Chinese component supply chains. The company processes and ships custom orders globally within one to two days via air freight.
Early traction
Anvil had delivered more than 100 robotic units to over 50 organisations by its seed announcement, eight months after the company was founded.
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