Robotics capital moves — 20–26 July 2026
Funding rounds, acquisitions and other capital transactions across robotics, autonomous systems and their enabling technologies.
Major funding rounds
Atoms announced a $1.7 billion equity investment led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining its board. Founder Travis Kalanick said the transaction merged the group’s different businesses into one Atoms equity structure, providing capital for its physical-automation programme across industrial sectors.
The business extends Kalanick’s work at CloudKitchens into a broader combination of software, sensors, robotics and industrial infrastructure. Its programme covers food production, mining and transport, aiming to coordinate the physical movement and manufacture of goods through software.
Humanoid raised a $152 million Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, taking total funding to $270 million. Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures participated. The UK company develops industrial humanoid robots and its KinetIQ robot-intelligence software.
The financing will support its next-generation platform, the start of mass manufacturing for wheeled humanoids and beta deployments beginning in the fourth quarter of 2026. Humanoid plans applications across manufacturing, logistics, retail and other industrial settings. Its existing deployment relationship with Schaeffler gives the programme access to production environments, while the funding supports both the physical manufacturing ramp and continued AI development.
T2 completed the first close of its Series B, raising approximately JPY5 billion through a share allocation to 11 corporate and venture investors. Participants included MOL PLUS, Sumitomo Warehouse, Fujitrans, Kuribayashi Steamship, Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service and corporate funds associated with Daiwa House, Mitsui Fudosan, Kansai Electric, Aeon Mall and Mitsubishi Logistics. Cumulative funding exceeded JPY16.5 billion.
The Japanese company develops autonomous trucks for trunk-haul logistics and targets Level 4 commercial services from fiscal 2027. Its existing Level 2 service, which retains driver supervision, had 23 customers. Transgate sites in Ayase, Kobe and Nishinomiya provide handoff infrastructure between highway operations and local transport. The financing supports vehicle technology and the operating network; a further Series B close planned for fiscal 2026 was still prospective.
Shihe Robot
Shihe Robot completed a Series C of several hundred million yuan, jointly led by Qianggang Capital and Zhongji Holdings. Guangxi Investment Capital, Sealand Innovation Capital and Juntong Capital participated, with returning investor Fosun RZ increasing its investment. The proceeds are allocated to industrial AI development, overseas service networks, manufacturing capacity and safety and acceptance standards.
Shihe’s wall-climbing robots perform ship-hull rust removal, tank maintenance, wind-turbine work and building-facade cleaning. Its magnetic climbing platform carries tools into hazardous elevated environments, replacing work otherwise performed by people suspended above the ground. The company is extending from continuous large-area surface treatment into identifying local corrosion and performing more precise maintenance. The financing supports that technical expansion together with regional spare-parts facilities and service teams for overseas customers.
AheadForm completed a Series A2 of several hundred million yuan, jointly led by CITIC Goldstone and Geely Capital. Participants included CITIC Securities International Capital, Guotai Junan Innovation Investment, Junli Capital, Jingming Capital and Jiaoyuan Capital, with returning investors China Internet Investment Fund and Shunwei Capital increasing their investment.
The Shanghai company develops lifelike robotic faces as an interface for natural human–robot interaction. It will use the financing to expand its biomimetic product range, build a standardised production line and further develop the embodied-intelligence algorithms controlling its systems. The disclosed amount is a range rather than an exact round value.
Yue Quan Bionics completed a Pre-A+ round of several hundred million yuan from Changfa Fund, Huakong Fund, China Asset Management, Guoli Minsheng and Xingke Venture Capital, with returning investor ZGC Qihang participating. The capital supports team expansion, core technology, manufacturing capacity and development of an integrated robot hardware and intelligence stack.
The company builds biomimetic dexterous hands using a tension-and-compression architecture inspired by the relationship between bones, muscles and ligaments. Its Y-Hand range emphasises compliant manipulation, while X-Hand targets demanding industrial handling. Self-developed motors and artificial-muscle modules form part of the same product programme. The company reported orders exceeding RMB100 million and a manufacturing expansion intended to support production at the ten-thousand-unit scale; orders and production capacity are distinct from delivered hands.
PrimalVerse
PrimalVerse completed seed financing of several hundred million yuan with participation from Legend Star, Ginkgo Valley Capital, Qifu Capital and Zhuoyuan Asia. Surgical-robotics company Edge Medical also invested strategically. The capital supports development of the company’s foundational 4D world model, team expansion and application testing.
Its approach represents three-dimensional environments over time, including object geometry, motion, contact and physical properties. The aim is to predict how a scene changes when an action is taken, giving robotics developers a way to model the consequences of manipulation. The company is testing applications across embodied intelligence, autonomous driving, games, film and medical surgery.
Gritt launched publicly with $32.4 million raised across a $26 million Series A and an earlier $6.4 million pre-seed. Obvious Ventures led the Series A, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments participating alongside previous investors First Round Capital, Climactic, Congruent Ventures and VSC Ventures.
The company attaches robotic arms and AI systems to existing construction equipment, including skid steers and forklifts, for picking, placement, assembly and material transport. Its systems also collect work-completion and site-condition data for supervisors. Gritt said machines were already working on construction sites and had placed tens of thousands of solar panels without breakage. The new financing supports expansion of that deployment and learning programme across outdoor infrastructure work.
Ropedia raised $22 million in its latest pre-A round, taking funding across two pre-A transactions to $30 million after an earlier $8 million round disclosed in March. The Singapore company supplies structured human-interaction data for robotics and physical AI. It will expand collection across Southeast Asia and North America, deploy more capture hardware and recruit for its AI and data infrastructure work, including in the United States.
Its HOMIE head-mounted device synchronises first-person video, audio, depth, hand tracking, gaze, body motion and camera pose. Ropedia processes and annotates those recordings into datasets that connect what a person perceives with the actions they perform. Its Xperience-10M dataset contains 10 million interaction episodes and more than 10,000 hours of recordings. Customers can license datasets or collect proprietary demonstrations with HOMIE, allowing robot-model developers to obtain experience across varied tasks and environments.
Shexu Technology completed a Series B exceeding RMB100 million, with investment from Shenzhen Capital Investment, Heding Gong and returning investor Yonghua Investment. The company said cumulative funding had passed RMB300 million; that total is separate from the size of the latest round.
Shexu provides AI software for industrial design and engineering rather than announcing a new robot platform with this financing. The proceeds will support expansion into domestic and overseas markets and development of its core models. Its role in the robotics and industrial-automation stack is to support the engineering work used to design and develop physical products.
Additional funding rounds
Jinglianwen Technology completed a Series A of nearly RMB100 million with investors including Binjiang Financial Investment, Hangzhou Financial Investment, Innovation Data Valley Fund, DBAPP Security and Yuhotian. The company will upgrade its SolarSense multimodal data-engineering platform and QApex data ecosystem, while increasing production of datasets for embodied intelligence.
Jinglianwen supplies the collection, processing and quality-control infrastructure used to turn physical-world observations into AI training data. Its programme spans industrial, medical and robotics applications, where useful records must connect multiple sensor streams with actions and task outcomes. The financing supports that data-production capability and the platforms used to organise it, following the company’s participation in a national embodied-intelligence pilot base.
Jingling Zhikang
Jingling Zhikang announced an angel round of nearly RMB100 million led by Longpan Investment, with Jiangxi Financial Holding, Xinduhui chairman Ni Guotao and Keda Silicon Valley participating. The company is developing biomimetic hands as part of a physical-AI data programme.
Its stated approach uses hand interaction to build a stream of physical-world data for robot intelligence. The financing supports a combination of manipulation hardware and the experience used to improve learned behaviour.
Splash Industries emerged from stealth with a $4.2 million round led by Ubiquity Ventures. The Los Angeles company designs and manufactures autonomous boats for cargo delivery and maritime monitoring, developing its software, electronics and sensors internally.
Its 11-foot Typhoon is designed for ship-to-shore supply missions and shallow-water access, while the larger Tempest supports heavier cargo and longer missions. Ubiquity reported more than 10,000 nautical miles of autonomous deployment across three continents during 2026, and participation in Navy exercises including RIMPAC. The investment supports scaling a vessel platform already being tested in field operations.
LumiBot raised tens of millions of yuan in an angel round led by a fund associated with an unnamed listed company. The proceeds will support recruitment, product development, small-batch production and collection of manipulation data for its robot models.
Its stack combines Lumi-Dex robotic hands, Lumi-Tac visual-tactile fingertip sensors, Lumi-Mind manipulation models and Lumi-Mod motor modules. The tactile system measures contact through deformation of a gel surface, while hardware and models are developed together for industrial manipulation and precision assembly. An 11-degree-of-freedom hand had entered small-batch production and sales, with higher-dexterity variants still under development. The funding supports both production hardware and the data needed to teach it useful tasks.
Tongzhou Zhihang raised tens of millions of yuan in seed financing from InnoAngel, Wuzhong Financial Control and Jiangsu Jinqiao Fund. Founded in June 2025, the company develops intelligent vessel systems for both new boats and retrofits.
Its work brings navigation, onboard equipment monitoring, safety alerts and vessel controls into a connected cockpit. The company was also developing a standardised 58-foot smart yacht for water-based rental operations and said it had secured more than 500 orders worth over RMB100 million. Those orders describe commercial commitments, rather than completed vessel deliveries. The financing supports development and commercialisation of the systems and the associated yacht programme.
Ising Brain
Ising Brain raised tens of millions of yuan in seed financing led by Haiyuan Capital, with other institutions participating. The Shenzhen company will use the capital for its IS-Brain cognitive world model, multidisciplinary recruitment, product engineering and deployment on local devices. Initial application testing covers garden services, home companionship and hotel cleaning.
IS-Brain combines perception, memory, planning and action feedback in an architecture intended to keep learning during operation. Its developers aim to let robots recall earlier interactions, predict action outcomes and adjust their plans when conditions change. The software is designed for multiple hardware forms, including wheeled robots and mobile manipulators, with shared experience supporting coordination between machines. The funding supports development and testing of that general robot-intelligence system.
Acquisitions
World Labs acquires SceniX
UndisclosedWorld Labs announced the acquisition of SceniX, bringing a robotics company into its spatial-intelligence programme. Financial terms were not disclosed. The announcement combines World Labs’ work on systems that perceive, generate and reason about spaces with SceniX’s robotics capabilities.
The companies framed their joint direction around world models, learned simulation and a feedback loop with physical robot learning. Robots need to understand object motion and interaction, anticipate the consequences of actions and execute reliably. The acquisition adds a robotics team to that development effort, with further technical work planned for disclosure.
ZenaTech
UndisclosedZenaTech completed its acquisition of BA Land Professionals, a Dayton, Ohio surveying business licensed in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. It was the company’s 26th acquisition in its Drone-as-a-Service programme and added its first Ohio base, extending its U.S. footprint to 12 states.
The acquired operation serves surveying, construction, infrastructure, energy and public-works customers. ZenaTech’s strategy is to introduce drones, LiDAR and automated data collection into established field-service businesses, combining their local customer relationships with its aerial surveying capability. The deal expands the service network through an operating surveying firm; a purchase price was not disclosed in the announcement.
Strategic investments
Guibu Microelectronics
Guibu Microelectronics completed strategic financing exceeding RMB100 million from OmniVision Group, Bosch Venture Capital, Jiangbei Science and Technology Investment Group, Lanpu Capital and Jingxiang Capital. The investment supports continued radar-chip development, volume production and expansion into additional application markets.
The company develops 4D imaging millimetre-wave radar chips, a sensing layer used to estimate an object’s position and movement for autonomous systems. Its product range spans automotive imaging and corner radar, traffic monitoring and drone obstacle avoidance. Guibu said its existing products were already in production and being delivered. The strategic financing links that commercial chip programme with investors from the automotive, semiconductor and industrial supply chain.
Zalando joined Sereact’s ongoing Series B as a strategic investor, bringing the round’s total to $116 million. The earlier round was led by Headline, with Bullhound Capital, Daphni, Felix Capital and returning investors participating. The July announcement concerns an extension of that financing.
Sereact develops Cortex robot-intelligence software for warehouse picking and manipulation. The company reported more than 200 systems operating across Europe and over one billion production picks. Capital will support Cortex 2.0 and international expansion; the new model is intended to predict physical outcomes and evaluate motion plans before execution. The investment connects a fulfilment operator with software designed for variable warehouse handling tasks.
Reported and pending financings
Genesis AI was reportedly in talks to raise about $500 million at a $3 billion pre-money valuation. Bloomberg reported that Premji Invest was discussing leading the round, with HSG and Northzone considering participation. Discussions were ongoing and the terms could change; no completed financing had been announced.
The company develops robotics foundation models and simulation systems for training robots across different tasks and hardware. It emerged from stealth in July 2025 with a $105 million seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures and subsequently expanded into hardware, including its Eno wheeled robot and dexterous hands. The proposed round would support a programme spanning robot intelligence, simulated training and physical systems, but remained a fundraising report at the recap date.
Listings and IPO filings
AgiBot confirmed that it had started the process of pursuing a Hong Kong listing. The July 24 statement establishes that listing work was under way, following earlier external reports about a potential offering. It does not announce a completed IPO or capital raised.
The company develops bipedal and wheeled humanoid robots for industrial and commercial tasks, together with robot-intelligence and data-collection systems. A public listing would provide a route to finance that development and production programme. At the historical article date, the offering remained preparatory, with its size and timetable undisclosed.
Cumulative funding disclosures
Futuring Robot completed a Pre-A financing, its third investment round in roughly six months. GeekPark reported cumulative financing of nearly RMB1 billion, following an RMB200 million angel round in January and a further round of several hundred million yuan in March. The current transaction’s amount was not separately clear in the disclosure. New participants included Inovance’s investment arm, Nice Group, Guofang Capital, Dening Capital and an unnamed internet company, alongside returning backers Yuanlai Capital, Lianxin Capital and Boyu Ventures.
The company develops general-purpose home robots for household work, companionship, pet care and monitoring. It reported use in more than 500 homes and over 50,000 service hours through a rental-before-purchase model. Its second-generation F2 uses a world-action model intended to predict physical consequences before acting. The new industrial investors add component-manufacturing and consumer-distribution resources to the company’s hardware, learning and household deployment programme.
Other capital moves
Vicarious Surgical’s shareholders approved an assignment for the benefit of creditors followed by voluntary dissolution and liquidation. The board authorised the plan, and the company entered an agreement transferring all or substantially all of its assets to Vicarious Liquidation LLC. It also terminated the employment of its chief executive, president, chief technology officer and chief medical officer.
The transaction winds down the surgical-robotics developer and places its assets into a creditor-recovery process. Creditors have priority over shareholders, who are not expected to receive a distribution unless proceeds remain after all liabilities are satisfied. The company also planned to deregister its common stock, suspending regular SEC reporting upon the Form 15 filing. This is a liquidation of the business rather than a growth financing or an acquisition of an operating robot company.