Robotics funding & deals
This week’s robotics and enabling technology funding: General Intuition raises $220M, SiMa.ai raises $150M; AMD agrees to buy World Labs for $8.2B.
General Intuition raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation to expand its research and engineering teams in New York and Europe. The company trains action and world models on gameplay data, and has opened early-access registration for partners in games, simulation and robotics.
SiMa.ai raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion valuation. The financing will expand its Palette Neat software environment and fund the next generation of edge AI silicon for robotics, drones and automotive systems, with hardware planned for the first half of 2028.
Quartermaster raised $100 million in equity and secured a separate $40 million debt facility from Stifel to expand its maritime sensing network. Its SmartMast combines cameras, radios and edge AI on existing workboats to detect, classify and track vessels autonomously.
Sudo AI reported more than RMB1 billion in financing for its robot foundation models and manipulation systems. Xiaomi returned as an investor. The next phase of development focuses on transferring embodied capabilities between industries, production lines and workstations.
Fortem Technologies closed a $50 million Series B to expand manufacturing in Lindon, Utah, and global deployments of its SkyDome counter-drone systems. SkyDome includes DroneHunter, an autonomous interceptor that captures other drones with nets. Lockheed Martin led the round, with Unusual Machines and other strategic and institutional investors participating.
IPercept raised $16.5 million for motion-based diagnostics and predictive maintenance of CNC machines. A sensor mounted on a moving machine part measures component wear, supporting the manufacturing equipment layer. The Swedish company reports more than 30 enterprise customers, including Airbus, Bosch, Hitachi Energy, Scania and Volvo, and previously raised a €5 million seed round in May 2025.
Inbolt raised €11 million to expand its real-time industrial robot vision business in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific, and enter data-centre and electronics manufacturing applications. Its 3D vision software works across robot brands, with customers including Bosch, Ford, Stellantis and Toyota.
Aleph raised $7.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Founded by Ryan and Dylan McGuire, the company is developing autonomous surgical robots that learn tasks from demonstrations and refine their skills through experience.
Also raised this week
Certo Aerospace raised £5 million to develop CAPSTONE, its 600 kg-class coaxial VTOL uncrewed aircraft for logistics, casualty evacuation and maritime missions. The programme has completed three years of flight testing under UK CAA operational authorisation.
Extend Robotics closed a £2.6 million Pre-A round to expand its robot services and operator network. At Adrian Scripps, an Extend-operated humanoid performs quality control on a live apple-packing line; the company reports 35 subscription customers across four sales regions.
The Columbia Engineering spinout raised $4.5 million for dexterous manipulation systems, with funding directed towards development and future manufacturing deployments.
Occam is expanding autonomy software already used on serial FPV drone platforms in Ukraine, with work spanning interceptor guidance, reconnaissance and target matching.
LOMBY announced a ¥387 million Series A, closed on 31 August, to expand LM-A delivery robot production, fleets and autonomy, including work with 7-Eleven Japan.
The pre-seed round supports AURA onboard-AI hardware, operating-system development and integration into unmanned platforms. Draganfly joined as a strategic investor.
The approximately ¥600 million Series B supports development, sales and hiring for HATS, which connects multi-vendor robots with warehouse and manufacturing systems.
The KRW3 billion Pre-A round supports SynK product development, hiring and commercialisation in Korea and Taiwan, spanning AMR setup, maintenance and fleet integration.
The Angel+++ round follows August’s RMB500 million Angel++ financing. Proceeds support GLOW training data, KNOWIN-X1 engineering validation, production preparation and hiring.
The harmonic-reducer and robot-joint developer raised more than RMB100 million, with Johnson Electric, Ninebot Private Fund and X Square participating.
The Pre-A++ round backs flexible electronic skin, automated production and tactile-data tools. The disclosed amount is an order-of-magnitude description, not an exact figure.
Angel funding supports production and development of modular wheeled humanoids. Its Mantis Standard embodied-AI platform has been available since 14 September.
The angel financing supports human-demonstration data collection and processing for general robot-model training. The announcement describes tens of millions of RMB without disclosing an exact amount.
LEBO completed the first close of its Series B for wind-turbine blade maintenance robots. A second close is planned before the company discloses the total round size.
MEEQ invested in Legmin to combine communications and IoT infrastructure with autonomous crop-spraying robots and agricultural services.
M-Fly’s new financing supports production of laser-guidance systems and electro-optical gimbals for unmanned platforms, with an RB-100 small-drone gimbal planned for Q1 2027.
OSCP announced a Series A that closed in August. The financing supports photonic inertial sensor production, product development and engineering and sales hiring.
The drone-inspection company secured financing from Xiong’an Science and Technology Innovation Seed Fund for systems combining flight control, perception and anomaly detection.
Mergers & acquisitions
AMD / World Labs
$8.2BAMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. The spatial-intelligence and 3D-world modelling team would join AMD, with Fei-Fei Li becoming executive vice president and chief scientist. Closing is expected by year-end, subject to regulatory approvals and customary conditions.
Wandercraft / Ekso Bionics
UndisclosedWandercraft acquired the Ekso Bionics operating business from a ChronoScale subsidiary, bringing together exoskeleton products used at more than 700 rehabilitation centres. The transaction signed and closed simultaneously; Wandercraft intends to keep supporting Atalante X, EksoNR, Eve and Indego Personal.
Anduril / Popoto Modem
UndisclosedAnduril acquired Popoto Modem to strengthen communications between autonomous underwater vehicles, sensors and surface systems. The Massachusetts team will continue to build and sell modems to existing customers while joining Anduril’s subsea communications work.
Roboworks / Elevision
Share exchangeElevision shareholders approved the Roboworks share exchange and articles amendments. Roboworks integrates autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots for industrial automation. Both special resolutions received all votes cast in favour, representing 48.6% of voting issued shares. This week’s event is an approval milestone.
Strategic investment
Sol.One and Drone Volt completed reciprocal €2.5 million investments under their previously announced propulsion programme. Drone Volt invested in Sol.One at the price of its August round, while Sol.One subscribed for new Drone Volt shares. The companies also reported the arrival of components for Saboteur production in Belgium.
DIC invested in Mantis Robotics through DIC D2S Ventures. The companies plan to explore tactile sensing, robotic fingers and lightweight components for fenceless industrial robots.
Enabling stack
Flow Engineering
Flow Engineering raised $50 million at a $750 million valuation for AI agents that connect hardware requirements, CAD, simulation, code and testing. Warehouse robotics company Mytra uses Flow to coordinate requirements, risks and tests across its robot development programme.
Filing watch
Sunflower Labs reported $14,902,982 sold to 26 investors against a $20 million equity offering. The first sale was on 10 September. This filing leaves $5.1 million unsold and does not announce a completed funding round.
Coverage & counting
This edition covers announcements dated 28 September–4 October 2026: 28 robotics and enabling-technology funding announcements, one reciprocal-investment update, four M&A events and Sunflower Labs’ filing-only update. Scope includes robots and autonomous systems, plus their components, sensing, compute, software, development tools and manufacturing infrastructure. Coverage draws on Korthos event records and the linked announcements; it is not a census of global funding.
The selected rounds are editorially ordered, not a complete global ranking. Quartermaster’s $40M debt facility, acquisition consideration and the Sol.One/Drone Volt reciprocal investments are shown separately from funding rounds.
Approximate USD equivalents use ECB reference rates for 2 October 2026 to compare the week’s disclosed amounts. DoD Solution’s $2.1M equivalent is source-reported. Original currencies and lower bounds are retained; qualitative ranges and undisclosed amounts are not converted.
LOMBY and OSCP announced financings this week that closed in August. Sol.One’s transaction completes an earlier programme and is shown separately. “More than”, approximate and order-of-magnitude amounts retain their source qualifications. Company locations describe headquarters.