FieldAI is building robotics autonomy into a deployment-surface layer

FieldAI raised $405 million across two rounds announced on August 20, 2025, reaching a reported $2 billion valuation. Investors included Bezos Expeditions, BHP Ventures, Canaan Partners, NVentures, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, Temasek, and others. The financing backs a company trying to sell autonomy software across robot bodies rather than building one machine category itself.

FieldAI was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Founder and CEO Ali Agha came out of field robotics work, and the team includes robotics veterans from DeepMind, NASA JPL, and Toyota Research Institute. The company calls its software Field Foundation Models, aimed at localization, planning, mapping, and risk-aware behavior in changing physical environments.

Construction sites, unfinished buildings, energy facilities, factories, and utility sites change between runs: routes move, dust and lighting shift, people and equipment enter the scene, and GPS or prepared maps may not be available. FieldAI says its systems can operate at the edge without maps, GPS, or predefined paths, using multimodal inputs such as vision, LiDAR, and text. Source

The funding announcement cited deployments in Japan, Europe and the United States across construction, energy, manufacturing, urban delivery and inspection. FieldAI says it has tested its models on quadrupeds, humanoids, wheeled robots and passenger-scale vehicles.

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