Rounds, valuations, deals and company moves across robotics.
Shenzhen's Astribot closed an RMB 1 billion round at about RMB 15 billion valuation — its fourth raise in six months — to scale cable-driven S1 and T1 robots.
The Düsseldorf startup's reconfigurable RISC-V processor aims to replace the DSP + NPU + CPU stack in robots and drones. Its first chip, UB108, works; the commercial UB410 is due in 2027.
Edinburgh's Danu is commercializing H.E.R.O. with a pincer claw and continuous AI updates, citing $500k in contracts and a 200+ customer pipeline while raising a $5M late-seed.
Brooklyn's Ultra closed a $50M Series A (Framework Ventures) plus earlier seed for $62M total, leasing OP1 packers while Physical Intelligence supplies the AI.
Sequoia led Mecka's $60M Series B with NVIDIA, Microsoft's M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung; the startup captures human demonstration data and says it passed $100M run-rate revenue in June 2026.
NantWorks led a $75M Series B for Multiply Labs; AstraZeneca and Teradyne joined as the San Francisco physical-AI company scales cell-and-gene and biologics manufacturing robots.
The Munich-founded industrial robotics startup doubled its valuation since January in a deal mostly made of employee share sales, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed and others, as it expands in the U.S.
A Carnegie Mellon spin-out co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun runs thousands of simulated edge cases with reactive human models and issues third-party safety reports.