All the fundraising deals in the humanoid robotics market (from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026)
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Between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026, pure-play humanoid robotics startups raised over $4.3 billion across 21 publicly disclosed funding rounds.
The humanoid robotics market saw its biggest quarter in Q1 2026, with $1.3 billion raised across five deals, showing that investor appetite for humanoid robots is still accelerating.
From Figure AI's billion-dollar Series C to Sunday Robotics building household humanoid robots, the range of bets in the humanoid robotics market keeps widening.
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Insights
- The humanoid robotics market raised $4.3 billion across 21 deals in five quarters, but just three rounds accounted for nearly 45% of all the capital deployed.
- Figure AI's $1 billion+ Series C in Q3 2025 alone represented over 80% of that quarter's total humanoid robotics funding, making it the most concentrated quarter on record.
- Chinese humanoid robotics startups accounted for 10 of the 21 deals, showing that China is now the most active geography by deal count in this market.
- Apptronik raised twice in 12 months for a combined $870 million, the fastest back-to-back fundraising by any single humanoid robotics company in this dataset.
- No humanoid robotics startup in this period raised below $2 million, which suggests the market has moved past the very early experimental stage.
- The average deal size in the humanoid robotics market ranged from $115.6 million (Q4 2025) to $311.6 million (Q3 2025), driven mostly by one or two mega-rounds each quarter.
- Sunday Robotics jumped from a $35 million seed to a $165 million Series B in under four months, signaling that household humanoid robots are becoming a credible investment category.
- General-purpose humanoid platforms captured $1.98 billion (46% of all funding), making "build a humanoid that can do anything" the dominant investor thesis.
- Only six investors participated in more than one humanoid robotics deal, meaning the investor base is still broad and not yet dominated by repeat mega-funds.
- Q4 2025 had the most deals (7) but one of the lowest totals ($809 million), showing a shift toward mid-size rounds and a broader spread of capital in the humanoid robotics market.
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Summary table of the funding deals in the humanoid robotics market (last 5 quarters)
We define the humanoid robotics market as robots with a human-like torso and two arms/hands designed to perform tasks in human-built environments.
We include bipedal or wheeled humanoid platforms, mobile manipulators marketed as humanoids, and the integrated robot system (hardware + onboard autonomy) sold for commercial deployment.
We exclude non-manipulating mobile robots (AMRs), traditional industrial arms in fixed cells, exoskeletons/prosthetics, and entertainment animatronics unless they are sold as task-performing robots.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the humanoid robotics market has evolved over the last few years.
Also, you should know that we have a dedicated page, updated weekly, with all the latest fundraising deals in the humanoid robotics market.
| Name | What they do | Amount ($M) | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RoboForce | Builds wheeled dual-arm robots for harsh industrial jobs like solar and space work | $10.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch, PR Newswire |
| Apptronik | Builds Apollo, a full-size humanoid robot for warehouse and manufacturing tasks | $350.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Agility Robotics | Builds Digit, a bipedal humanoid that moves totes and materials in warehouses | $400.0M | Q2 2025 | GeekWire |
| Persona AI | Builds humanoid robots for heavy industrial work, starting with shipyards | $27.0M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Galbot | Builds embodied-AI humanoid robots for manufacturing and retail operations in China | $151.0M | Q2 2025 | IOT World Today |
| AeiROBOT | Builds bipedal humanoid robots with gearless actuators for industrial and service work | $7.2M | Q3 2025 | Startup Recipe |
| EngineAI | Builds general-purpose humanoid robots and core motion systems for industry in China | $139.3M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| X Square Robot | Builds humanoid robots and embodied-AI software for home and service tasks | $100.0M | Q3 2025 | Robotics & Automation News |
| Figure AI | Builds general-purpose autonomous humanoid robots for factories and logistics | $1,000.0M+ | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Leju Robotics | Builds Kuavo humanoid robots for industrial, healthcare, and education settings | $207.0M | Q4 2025 | Robotics & Automation News |
| Noetix Robotics | Builds low-cost consumer and education humanoid robots in China | $42.0M | Q4 2025 | TechNode |
| Physical Robotics | Norway-based startup building a humanoid robot platform for general use | $4.0M | Q4 2025 | RoboHorizon |
| Sunday Robotics | Builds Memo, a household humanoid robot for chores like dishes and laundry | $35.0M | Q4 2025 | AI Insider |
| RobotEra | Builds general-purpose humanoid robots and dexterous hands for commercial deployment | $140.0M | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Generative Bionics | Italy-based startup building industrial humanoid robots and physical-AI systems | $81.2M | Q4 2025 | The Robot Report |
| Galbot | Raised again to expand large-scale humanoid robot deployments across China and beyond | $300.0M+ | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| LimX Dynamics | Builds full-size humanoid robots with embodied intelligence for commercial use | $200.0M | Q1 2026 | TechNode |
| Apptronik | Raised again to scale Apollo humanoid robot production and industrial deployments | $520.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Spirit AI | Builds full-stack embodied-AI humanoid robots for commercial deployment in China | $290.5M | Q1 2026 | AI Insider |
| Noetix Robotics | Raised again to scale commercialization of low-cost consumer humanoid robots | $140.0M | Q1 2026 | Pandaily |
| Sunday Robotics | Raised again to advance Memo household humanoid robot toward deployment readiness | $165.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
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How has funding activity in the humanoid robotics market changed over time?
Q3 2025 was the most active quarter by total dollars, with $1.25 billion raised across four deals, but that was largely because Figure AI's billion-dollar Series C made up over 80% of the total.
Q1 2025 was the quietest quarter, with just two deals raising $360 million combined, since the humanoid robotics market was still building momentum at the start of the year.
Total humanoid robotics funding in Q1 2026 reached $1.32 billion, up about 63% from Q4 2025's $809 million, and up about 265% compared to Q1 2025's $360 million one year earlier.
If you strip out the single largest deal each quarter, the remaining humanoid robotics funding still grew from $10 million in Q1 2025 to $796 million in Q1 2026, which means the growth is broad-based and not just driven by one or two mega-rounds.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Total raised | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 2 | $360.0M | Quiet start to the year; Apptronik's $350M Series A accounted for almost all of it |
| Q2 2025 | 3 | $578.0M | Agility Robotics' reported $400M round boosted totals; first Chinese deals appeared |
| Q3 2025 | 4 | $1,246.5M | Figure AI's $1B+ Series C made this the highest-dollar quarter in the dataset |
| Q4 2025 | 7 | $809.2M | Most deals of any quarter; capital spread more evenly across seven humanoid robotics startups |
| Q1 2026 | 5 | $1,315.5M | Highest total and strong breadth; Apptronik, Spirit AI, and LimX Dynamics all raised large rounds |
| All quarters | 21 | $4,309.2M | Over $4.3 billion deployed into pure-play humanoid robotics startups in five quarters |
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Which startups in the humanoid robotics market raised the largest rounds over the last months?
These startups raised the most recently in the humanoid robotics market:
- Figure AI raised over $1 billion in a Series C because the company is scaling factory deployments, building its own manufacturing site (BotQ), and attracting top-tier investors like NVIDIA and Brookfield.
- Apptronik raised $520 million in a Series A extension because Apollo is one of the furthest-along industrial humanoid robots, with Google, Mercedes-Benz, and Qatar Investment Authority backing its production scale-up.
- Agility Robotics reportedly raised $400 million because Digit is already being tested in real warehouses and the company needed capital to ramp production for logistics customers.
- Apptronik raised $350 million in its initial Series A to move Apollo from pilot stage into full commercialization with backing from B Capital and Google.
- Galbot raised over $300 million because the company is one of the most commercially active humanoid robotics startups in China and needed to expand deployments across retail and manufacturing.
- Spirit AI raised about $290.5 million to scale its embodied-AI foundation models and move toward large-scale humanoid robot commercialization in China.
- Leju Robotics raised about $207 million in a pre-IPO round to fund mass production of its Kuavo humanoid robots and prepare for a public listing.
- LimX Dynamics raised $200 million in a Series B because the company is expanding from China into global markets with its full-size humanoid platform.
- Sunday Robotics raised $165 million because Memo is one of the first household humanoid robots attracting serious venture capital from Coatue and Tiger Global.
- Galbot raised $151 million earlier in Q2 2025 to expand its embodied-AI humanoid deployments across Chinese manufacturing and retail, led by CATL Capital.
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Is the humanoid robotics market shifting toward smaller or bigger deals?
Across all five quarters, the average deal size in the humanoid robotics market was about $205 million, which is remarkably high and reflects the capital-intensive nature of building and deploying humanoid robots.
Quarter by quarter, the average humanoid robotics deal ranged from $115.6 million in Q4 2025 to $311.6 million in Q3 2025. The wide swings happened because a single mega-round (like Figure AI's $1 billion+ raise) can dramatically pull up the average in a quarter with only a few deals.
If you exclude the largest deal each quarter, the average humanoid robotics deal size was closer to $80-100 million for most of 2025, then jumped to about $199 million in Q1 2026, suggesting that mid-size and large rounds are becoming more common across the board.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Average deal size | Deals below $2M | Deals above $50M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 2 | $180.0M | 0 | 1 |
| Q2 2025 | 3 | $192.7M | 0 | 2 |
| Q3 2025 | 4 | $311.6M | 0 | 3 |
| Q4 2025 | 7 | $115.6M | 0 | 4 |
| Q1 2026 | 5 | $263.1M | 0 | 5 |
| All quarters | 21 | $205.2M | 0 | 15 |
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How concentrated was funding activity in the humanoid robotics market?
Funding in the humanoid robotics market has been highly concentrated, with the single largest deal capturing anywhere from 37% to 97% of a given quarter's total. This pattern is typical for capital-intensive hardware markets where a few frontrunners attract most of the investment.
That said, concentration has been easing over time: the top deal's share dropped from 97% in Q1 2025 to about 40% in Q1 2026, which suggests the humanoid robotics investor base is gradually widening as more startups reach fundable milestones.
| Quarter | Number of deals | % by Top 1 | % by Top 3 | % by Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 2 | 97.2% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q2 2025 | 3 | 69.2% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q3 2025 | 4 | 80.2% | 99.4% | 100.0% |
| Q4 2025 | 7 | 37.1% | 80.0% | 100.0% |
| Q1 2026 | 5 | 39.5% | 76.8% | 100.0% |
| All quarters | 21 | 23.2% | 44.6% | 83.2% |
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Which categories in the humanoid robotics market received the most funding?
General-purpose humanoid platforms raised $1.98 billion across seven deals, capturing 46% of all humanoid robotics funding. This category leads because investors are betting that a single humanoid robot design could serve factories, logistics centers, and eventually homes, giving these startups the largest addressable market story.
Industrial and warehouse humanoid labor came second with $1.27 billion across three deals, driven entirely by Apptronik (two rounds) and Agility Robotics. These startups target a clear, immediate pain point: labor shortages in warehouses and manufacturing plants where humanoid robots can work alongside people.
Industrial and retail humanoid operations ranked third at $451 million across two deals, both from Galbot. Galbot's repeat fundraising reflects strong commercial traction in China, where the company is deploying humanoid robots in both manufacturing floors and retail environments.
| Category | Number of deals | Total raised | Startups and amounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| General-purpose humanoid platform | 7 | $1,980.8M | Figure AI ($1,000M+), Spirit AI ($290.5M), LimX Dynamics ($200.0M), Leju Robotics ($207.0M), RobotEra ($140.0M), EngineAI ($139.3M), Physical Robotics ($4.0M) |
| Industrial / warehouse humanoid labor | 3 | $1,270.0M | Apptronik ($350.0M + $520.0M), Agility Robotics ($400.0M) |
| Industrial / retail humanoid operations | 2 | $451.0M | Galbot ($151.0M + $300.0M+) |
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Who are the biggest investors in the humanoid robotics market?
B Capital participated in two humanoid robotics deals, both with Apptronik, backing the company's $350 million Series A and its $520 million extension. B Capital's repeat commitment to Apptronik reflects a deep conviction in industrial humanoid robots as the next major labor platform.
Benchmark also participated in two deals, both with Sunday Robotics, supporting the startup from its $35 million seed through its $165 million Series B. Benchmark's bet on Sunday Robotics makes the firm one of the earliest serious backers of household humanoid robots.
CATL Capital invested in two humanoid robotics rounds: Galbot's $151 million raise and EngineAI's $139.3 million combined rounds. CATL Capital's involvement signals that battery and energy giants see humanoid robots as a strategic downstream market.
Google backed Apptronik in both its Q1 2025 Series A and its Q1 2026 extension, making Google one of the most prominent tech-company investors in the humanoid robotics market with exposure to $870 million in combined round sizes.
HongShan participated in two separate humanoid robotics deals: Spirit AI's $290.5 million round and X Square Robot's $100 million raise. HongShan's activity highlights how top Chinese venture firms are spreading bets across multiple humanoid robotics startups.
JD.com invested in both EngineAI ($139.3 million) and LimX Dynamics ($200 million), making JD.com one of the most active corporate investors in Chinese humanoid robotics. JD.com's interest likely ties back to its massive logistics and warehouse operations, where humanoid robots could eventually play a role.
Disclaimer: this investor list may be incomplete; we focus on publicly disclosed lead and prominent recurring investors, so some frequent minority participants may be underrepresented. "Total funded" does not represent the amount personally invested by an individual investor. Instead, it refers to the aggregate amount raised across all fundraising rounds in which the investor participated.
| Investor | Number of deals | Total funded | Startups |
|---|---|---|---|
| B Capital | 2 | $870.0M | Apptronik (Series A, Series A-X) |
| 2 | $870.0M | Apptronik (Series A, Series A-X) | |
| HongShan | 2 | $390.5M | Spirit AI, X Square Robot |
| JD.com | 2 | $339.3M | EngineAI, LimX Dynamics |
| CATL Capital | 2 | $290.3M | EngineAI, Galbot |
| Benchmark | 2 | $200.0M | Sunday Robotics (Seed, Series B) |
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