Robotics capital moves — 13–19 July 2026
Funding rounds, acquisitions and other capital transactions across robotics, autonomous systems and their enabling technologies.
Major funding rounds
Helsing raised a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation. Participants included Dragoneer, Lightspeed, Disruptive, ICONIQ, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, JPMorganChase, CPP Investments, General Catalyst, Plural and StepStone. The company said it remained predominantly European-owned after the financing.
The capital will accelerate development and integration of new AI platforms into partner countries’ defence capabilities. Helsing combines defence software with autonomous hardware programmes, making the financing available for further system development and delivery. The July announcement establishes a completed round and supersedes the smaller financing previously reported in May.
Walden Robotics launched from stealth with a $300 million seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation. Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Invention Partners, Toyota Ventures and Deviation Capital co-led, with investors including NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, Prologis Ventures and CoreWeave Ventures participating.
The Toyota Research Institute spinout develops general-purpose robots powered by large behaviour models. It said its robots had performed production work at a Toyota plant in North America since February, following its January formation. Capital expands manufacturing and logistics deployments and the systems used to learn from that work.
LimX Dynamics completed nearly $200 million in pre-IPO financing, bringing six-month fundraising to approximately $400 million. New investors included IDG Capital, Lens Technology, GGG Group and Redstone VC, WestSummit Capital and Hefei Binhu Industry Development Group, with existing shareholders adding capital.
Funding supports integration of high-level reasoning with whole-body control, manufacturing and international expansion. Its stack links motion foundation models, humanoid skills and the COSA embodied operating system. The company aims to deploy thousands of autonomous humanoids; that is a deployment objective, while this announcement confirms a private financing rather than an IPO.
BRINC raised $125 million led by Motorola Solutions, with Index Ventures and Dylan Field participating. Total capital raised exceeded $250 million. The company will expand US manufacturing, launch products and grow sales, including a planned move to a factory three times larger by year-end.
Its Lemur 2, Responder and Guardian drones support indoor operations and emergency response, providing observations before police or firefighters arrive. BRINC reported use by more than 900 public-safety agencies and over 20% of US SWAT teams. The new financing scales production and deployment of that connected drone portfolio.
Holiday Robotics
Holiday Robotics raised KRW155 billion in a Series A, with returning investors Stone Bridge Ventures, Atinum, Intervest and Spring Camp joined by institutions including IMM Investment, SL Investment, KB Investment, Bon Angels, Goodwater, KDB and IBK.
Its FRIDAY manufacturing platform emphasises dexterous hands, tactile sensing and force-aware manipulation for industrial work. Holiday targeted commercialisation in the second half of 2026, a 100-unit annual production system during 2026 and capacity for 1,000 units in 2027. Those manufacturing figures were forward plans.
TerraFirma disclosed approximately $115 million in total financing, including a $100 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins. Participants included Bain Capital Ventures, Glade Brook, BANNER, Saga, Trust Ventures, Definition, PEAK6, Magnetar and Ravelin. The Series A amount is separate from the cumulative total.
The construction company develops semi-autonomous heavy-equipment systems and supplies project execution alongside its technology. Funding expands engineering, manufacturing, operations and construction teams, supporting equipment development and work across critical infrastructure, housing, energy and transportation.
Singularity Defense emerged from stealth with an $80 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Felicis at a $400 million valuation. The company develops lower-cost air-defence countermeasures for drones and missiles.
Its interceptors remained in development, with detailed specifications undisclosed. The financing backs development and manufacturing of systems intended to make defence against inexpensive aerial threats more affordable. The launch did not establish completed operational deployments.
Xynova completed a RMB500 million A+ led by Meituan, with NIO Capital, China Merchants Capital and an unnamed major internet company participating. Xiaomi added investment. Xynova reported approximately RMB1.5 billion across four rounds and a post-money valuation above $1 billion.
Its Flex 2 dexterous hand combines tendon and direct drive, with the company developing motors, control electronics, screws and algorithms internally. It targets manipulation in automotive humanoids, warehouse sorting and local services, and planned capacity for 10,000-scale annual hand deliveries by year-end. That was a capacity target.
microagi raised a $55 million seed led by Hummingbird, with Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and redalpine participating. The Munich company will expand Atlas, its data and deployment platform for industrial robotics.
Atlas captures customer-specific operational data, augments it in simulation and fine-tunes robot models for plant tasks. Engineers then deploy those policies on third-party hardware, feeding operating experience into further training. The financing expands that integration work and the computing and data infrastructure behind it.
Senior Auto completed a RMB300 million Series C from Xingzheng Capital and Yidao Capital. Funding supports a new automotive-grade autonomous-driving platform for heavy freight vehicles.
The company applies its systems to ports, industrial parks and trunk logistics. Its programme spans different vehicles and operating environments, with the new investment developing the sensing, control and engineering needed to move freight autonomy from testing toward larger commercial operations.
Additional funding rounds
Greenjets raised a $40 million Series A led by Blossom Capital, with the NATO Innovation Fund, the UK National Security Strategic Investment Fund and returning investors Tanglin Ventures and NSFO participating. Capital supports aerospace development, production and deployment.
Its portfolio combines propulsion systems, aircraft platforms and launch technologies. The raise followed selection under the UK’s Low-Cost Air Defence Effectors programme to develop a drone interceptor, with demonstration trials planned later in 2026. Greenjets had expanded its UK facilities from 12,000 to nearly 70,000 square feet over the previous year.
Monumental raised a $32 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with existing investors Hummingbird and Plural participating. Funding supports team growth, a larger robot fleet, US expansion and a wider range of construction tasks.
The Amsterdam company operates bricklaying robots on European building sites and sells completed masonry work as a construction service. Its announcement described more than 100 working robots. The financing expands the machines and field operations used to deliver walls on active projects.
ZeroErr completed a several-hundred-million-yuan C++ led by Cowin Capital, with Guotai Junan Innovation and returning investor Huakong participating. Funding expands production and international markets.
Its eRob joint modules integrate motion components for robots, while eCoder encoders measure position. These products support industrial, collaborative, surgical and humanoid systems. The financing scales the precision components used by robot manufacturers to control movement and build machines for demanding applications.
Xense Robotics secured approximately RMB100 million in financing, with Jide Electrical, Tianji Capital and an embodied-intelligence industry investor participating. The announcement adds strategic industrial backing to its tactile-intelligence programme.
Its sensors, data-collection equipment and models measure contact information for robotic manipulation. The system adds touch feedback to visual perception, giving machines information about forces and object interaction when grasping or handling materials. Capital supports further development and industrialisation of that sensing and learning stack.
Cytronic raised a $13.5 million seed led by Slow Ventures, with backers including Geek Ventures, Failup, Alumni Ventures, Spacecadet, Weekend Fund, Mana, Rice and Script Capital. Capital develops its orchestration software and brings additional automated fulfilment facilities online.
The company combines purchased robotic equipment with its own operating software to provide picking, packing, sortation and storage as a service for direct-to-consumer brands. Customers send inventory and connect their commerce systems, using the automated network without buying warehouse robotics themselves.
Silicon Microgravity secured £6 million led by West Hill Capital, with the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund participating through its Defence & Security and Space portfolios. Capital accelerates commercial growth across defence, space and semiconductors.
The Cambridge spinout makes MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes and gravity sensors for compact navigation and measurement systems. Its technology targets operation where GPS is unavailable, with the financing supporting commercial deployment of sensing components for autonomous systems and other demanding environments.
Hyperion Robotics raised €6.4 million in growth funding co-led by Course Corrected and the European Innovation Council Fund. RE Ventures joined returning investors Lifeline, Übermorgen and PC Rettig Impact. Total capital approached €17.4 million.
Its Forge platform connects design, structural engineering, robotics and factory operations to manufacture low-carbon concrete infrastructure components. Funding supports its first UK robotic microfactory in Flixborough near Scunthorpe, developed with LKAB, and expansion of this local manufacturing model across European infrastructure projects.
Sodex Innovations raised €4 million led by Capmont Technology, with Bloomhaus, Look AI Ventures and Superangels joining returning investors SOSV, OMA and 12 Rounds Capital. Funding expands the team, products and international business.
Its machine-mounted scanners and cameras map construction sites, mines and infrastructure during work. Data flows into a web platform for terrain documentation, material quantities and progress analysis, allowing contractors to measure operations while equipment is already moving. Sodex reported more than 100 customers across the US, Australia and Europe.
MoSense completed a tens-of-millions-yuan angel round from HongShan, GL Ventures and AGIBOT. Capital supports research, recruitment, computing and a production-testing system.
Its MoSkin flexible tactile system covers hands, limbs, torso and feet, gathering force and other contact information across the robot’s body. It combines hardware with multimodal processing for signals including pressure, temperature, slip and vibration, supplying feedback for motion control and physical interaction beyond fingertip sensing.
DeYi Medical completed a tens-of-millions-yuan A++ investment from Tiantu Beautiful Navigation Fund. Proceeds support its Deep PT physical-therapy model, robot development, production expansion and international markets.
The company develops AI-assisted therapy equipment for medical, rehabilitation, wellness and eldercare settings. Its programme connects treatment knowledge with sensing and controlled physical interaction. A planned production base targets 10,000 systems annually; the announcement did not establish that as operating capacity.
Zhui Zhi Engineering completed a seed financing from L2F Light Source Entrepreneur Fund, Shangrong Capital and Yicun Capital. The company will use the investment for product research, recruitment and market expansion.
Its industrial AI agents target grinding, welding and surface treatment, adapting robot operation to variable material-processing tasks. Zhui Zhi reported its first delivery to an A-share-listed customer and a separate aerospace manufacturing order worth tens of millions of yuan. The order value is distinct from the financing.
ZhiYou Wujie completed a tens-of-millions-yuan angel+ from Oriza Puhua and Shenzhen Capital Group-backed Nantong Baoyue Lake. Capital supports technology iteration, capacity expansion, sales channels and recruitment.
The company develops industrial robots for shipyard coating and material handling. It combines world-action and process models with an industrial data platform, collecting operating experience to refine behaviour. Its first dock coating robot was moving toward batch rollout, with further work on cleaning, grinding and rust removal.
Sabanto closed an oversubscribed Series B led by Leaps by Bayer, with Sustainable Forward Capital, InnoVenture Iowa, Fulcrum Global Capital, DCVC and Yara participating. The amount was undisclosed. Capital supports kit production, sales, software and field support.
Its autonomy retrofits let farmers operate existing tractors without a driver in the cab, including planting and other field work. The company aims to reach hundreds of additional farms over the following year, expanding adoption through dealers and customer operations.
Nexforce Robotics announced completion of an A+ on July 13. Its financing programme had brought three rounds within six months, with backers across the sequence including Matrix Partners China, Yunhui, Thick Snow, Synstellation, AGIBOT and industrial and local-government investors. The latest round amount was not disclosed.
The company makes precision motion components, joint modules and actuation systems for robots and high-end equipment. Its engineering draws on industrial manufacturing experience to develop the transmission and drive hardware used in robotic movement, with investment supporting technology and production development.
SKAI Intelligence raised follow-on investment from the Oracle–Vector Regional Innovation Venture Fund at an approximately KRW100 billion valuation. The fund is managed by WIEUP Technology Investment with Oracle Venture Investment as co-manager; the financing amount was not disclosed.
The investment follows the company’s June Series A and supports its digital-twin and industrial synthetic-data infrastructure for Physical AI. SKAI builds on NVIDIA Omniverse to reproduce manufacturing environments for robot training, alongside perception and grasping research with Seoul National University’s AI Institute and collaboration with ABB Robotics.
Acquisitions
Quantum Cyber
$2.3M property purchaseQuantum Cyber’s Quantum Drones subsidiary completed the $2.3 million purchase of its Bridgeport, Connecticut factory property. The approximately 50,000-square-foot site is intended for US autonomous-defence manufacturing.
The completed transaction covered the real estate. Installed manufacturing equipment was governed by a separate asset-purchase agreement, which was not reported complete in this announcement. The property acquisition establishes physical infrastructure for the drone-production programme without establishing that the full manufacturing operation was already running.
Strategic investments
SEED Innovations invested $350,000 in Cosmic Robotics through an uncapped, undiscounted SAFE with most-favoured-nation terms. It is expected to convert into equity in a subsequent financing following Cosmic’s participation in Y Combinator.
Cosmic develops autonomous equipment for infrastructure construction, initially utility-scale solar installation. Its Cosmic-1A system handles and installs large-format solar panels. The investment supports development, commercial deployment and operational expansion of that equipment.
Reported and pending acquisitions
Hyundai Motor Group
UndisclosedHyundai Motor Group shareholders said they were pursuing SoftBank’s entire remaining stake in Boston Dynamics after SoftBank exercised its put option. The transaction remained subject to governance approvals, settlement and decisions by the parties, with the final share allocation still to be determined.
The proposed purchase consolidates ownership around Hyundai’s robotics strategy. Boston Dynamics supplies robot engineering and Hyundai supplies manufacturing and deployment environments. Hyundai planned Atlas parts-sequencing work at its Georgia Metaplant from 2028, followed by component assembly from 2030 subject to validation and readiness.
Reported and pending financings
Resilience reported Cambridge Aerospace was nearing a $300 million financing at an approximately $3.4 billion valuation. The company had not announced a completed round at the edition date, so both figures remain attributed to the report.
The British company develops lower-cost aerial-threat interceptors. Resilience also reported more than $140 million in signed contracts and an approximately $5 billion pipeline. That pipeline describes prospective business, rather than awarded orders or revenue. The financing discussions would support expansion of the defence-systems business if completed.
Private funding disclosures
Project Q disclosed a €15 million Series A that had closed in June, led by Expeditions with HENSOLDT and Heliad participating. The July announcement is a later disclosure of that completed round.
Its HYDRIS open-source integration and orchestration platform connects sensors, unmanned systems, mission software and legacy equipment in a common operating environment. Funding supports further development and deployment of the platform, using open standards to reduce the work needed to combine equipment from different vendors.
Qingyan Precision disclosed two B-series financings completed during June. Xingyuan Capital led B2 with FAW Fusheng, followed by B3 led by BAIC Capital with Yulon. Its B-series investor group also included Sinomach Industrial Fund and automotive investors. The July disclosure does not create an additional round.
Its industrial Physical AI infrastructure combines real-factory data, simulation, robot-in-the-loop testing and evaluation. The TsingLoop pipeline aligns visual, force, tactile and process data into reusable training assets, supporting robot development and validation without treating a laboratory demonstration as production readiness.
Cumulative funding disclosures
RoboParty disclosed nearly RMB500 million across angel++ and pre-A financings. Returning investors Shunwei, Matrix Partners China, Xiaomi and SenseTime-backed Guoxiang participated in angel++, while CATL exclusively invested in pre-A. The total spans two rounds.
Its open development stack combines actuators, humanoid hardware, motion control, SDKs and PartyOS. Funding supports production ramp-up, reliability, motion performance and robot foundation-model research, with CATL and RoboParty planning to explore manufacturing, energy and supply-chain applications.
Beijing Rimu Robot disclosed two seed financings totalling several hundred million yuan, backed by Dingfeng, Yuantu Future, Baidu Ventures, Woyan, Wuyuefeng and Wanlin International. A further financing was being delivered separately and is excluded from the completed two-round total.
Its LaMPA world model represents the environment, robot state and accumulated experience to predict physical changes and generate actions. A World Reward Model evaluates outcomes for reinforcement learning. Funding supports these models, the data feedback loop and product delivery, including planned high-precision server assembly work with Yuantu Future.
Novatek disclosed KRW7 billion in cumulative investment from Hyundai Motor Group ZER01NE, Hyundai Motor Securities’ mobility fund, Quantum Ventures Korea and others. It was discussing further investment separately. Capital supports platform development and North American logistics expansion.
Its PiPER software coordinates mixed fleets of AGVs, AMRs, autonomous forklifts and humanoids through one interface. Novatek reported operating approximately 300 logistics robots at Hyundai’s Georgia Metaplant and 150 at its Singapore innovation centre. The financing expands the orchestration and deployment business built around those installations.
Related companies & products
- Helsing
- Walden Robotics
- LimX Dynamics
- BRINC
- TerraFirma
- Singularity Defense
- microagi
- Xynova
- Greenjets
- Senior Auto
- RoboParty
- Monumental
- Beijing Rimu Robot / 日冕开物
- MoSense
- Silicon Microgravity
- Hyperion Robotics
- Cosmic Robotics
- DeYi Medical
- Cytronic
- Zhui Zhi Engineering Technology
- ZhiYou Wujie
- Xense Robotics
- Novatek / 노바테크
- Project Q
- Sabanto
- ZeroErr (零差云控)
- Nexforce Robotics
- SKAI Intelligence
- Qingyan Precision / 清研精准
- Sodex Innovations
- Cambridge Aerospace
- Quantum Cyber
