All the fundraising deals in the robotics market (from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026)
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The robotics market pulled in over $8.1 billion across 47 funding rounds between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026.
Humanoid robots took the largest share, but surgical robots, warehouse automation, defense drones, and construction robots all saw meaningful investment across the five quarters.
Q1 2026 was by far the heaviest quarter, driven by a handful of very large rounds that pushed total funding well above any previous quarter in this window.
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Summary table of the funding deals in the robotics market (last 5 quarters)
We define the robotics market as all professional physical robots that sense their environment, make decisions and act in the real world for work purposes.
We include industrial robot arms and cobots, mobile robots in factories and warehouses, medical and surgical robots, and other professional service robots used in logistics, healthcare, agriculture and infrastructure.
We exclude consumer robots and toys, hobby drones, pure software automation like RPA, and non-robotic automation equipment such as simple conveyors or fixed-purpose machines.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the 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 robotics market.
| Name | What they do | Amount | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serve Robotics | Operates sidewalk robots that deliver food and retail orders in U.S. cities. | $80M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Apptronik | Builds the Apollo humanoid robot for warehouse and industrial work tasks. | $350M | Q1 2025 | Apptronik / TechCrunch |
| Apptronik | Additional close tied to scaling the Apollo humanoid robot platform. | $53M | Q1 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| NEURA Robotics | Builds cognitive humanoid robots that combine AI, vision, and touch for industrial use. | $130M | Q1 2025 | The Robot Report |
| Fourier Intelligence | Develops rehabilitation robots and humanoid systems with a strong Asia focus. | $109M | Q1 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Dexterity | Builds AI-powered robots that load trailers and handle parcels in warehouses. | $95M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Nomagic | Builds robotic picking systems for warehouses and fulfillment centers in Europe. | $38M | Q1 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Manna | Operates delivery drones for food and grocery logistics, primarily in Ireland. | $30M | Q1 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Agility Robotics | Builds the Digit humanoid robot for warehouse and factory tasks in North America. | $400M | Q2 2025 | GeekWire |
| CMR Surgical | Makes the Versius soft-tissue surgical robot for hospitals across Europe and globally. | $160M | Q2 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| ForSight Robotics | Builds robotic systems for eye surgery, starting with cataract procedures. | $125M | Q2 2025 | Business Wire |
| Coco Robotics | Runs last-mile delivery robots for restaurants and merchants in U.S. cities. | $80M | Q2 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Wandercraft | Builds self-balancing exoskeletons for rehabilitation and is developing a humanoid platform. | $75M | Q2 2025 | The Robot Report |
| Aerones | Builds robots that inspect, clean, and repair wind turbines for operators worldwide. | $62M | Q2 2025 | Aerones |
| Voliro | Builds aerial robots that physically contact industrial structures for inspection and maintenance. | $23M | Q2 2025 | Voliro |
| LionsBot | Builds autonomous floor-cleaning robots for commercial buildings, primarily in Asia. | $20.6M | Q2 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Figure | Builds general-purpose humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics in the U.S. | $1,000M+ | Q3 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Zhongqing Robot | Builds full-stack humanoid robots for industrial and commercial use in China. | $140M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| X Square Robot | Builds humanoid robots and embodied AI systems for commercial deployment in China. | $100M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Bedrock Robotics | Builds retrofit kits that turn excavators into autonomous construction machines. | $80M | Q3 2025 | The Robot Report |
| Neptune Robotics | Builds robots that clean ship hulls and remove biofouling for maritime operators. | $52M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Asylon | Builds autonomous drones and ground robots for perimeter security in the U.S. | $24M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| AiM Medical Robotics | Builds MRI-compatible robots that guide neurosurgical procedures inside imaging machines. | $8.1M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Saga Robotics | Builds agricultural robots for strawberry and vineyard harvesting in Northern Europe. | $11.2M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| BeeX | Builds autonomous underwater vehicles for subsea inspection in Singapore and offshore Asia. | $7.76M | Q3 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Dexory | Builds warehouse robots that scan inventory racks and turn data into operational intelligence. | $165M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Leju Robotics | Builds humanoid robots for industrial and commercial use with a focus on China. | $200M | Q4 2025 | The Robot Report |
| Distalmotion | Builds modular surgical robots for minimally invasive procedures in Europe and U.S. hospitals. | $150M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Robot Era | Builds bipedal humanoid robots and dexterous hands for industrial use in China. | $140M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Ecorobotix | Builds precision spraying robots that target weeds and reduce chemical use on farms. | $105M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Surgerii Robotics | Builds single-port teleoperated surgical robots with flexible snake-like instruments. | $100M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Ronovo Surgical | Builds modular surgical robots aimed at multiple specialties, with a focus on China. | $100M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Noetix Robotics | Builds humanoid robots for entertainment, education, and exhibitions, primarily in China. | $42M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| SwarmFarm Robotics | Builds lightweight autonomous farm robots that operate in coordinated fleets in Australia. | $20M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| SAIA Agrobotics | Builds greenhouse automation where plants move to robots for repetitive growing tasks. | $10.8M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| ROLO Robotics | Builds autonomous micro-kitchen systems for automated food preparation in commercial settings. | $3.45M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| ScrubMarine | Builds autonomous robots to clean and inspect ship hulls for maritime infrastructure. | $1M | Q4 2025 | New Market Pitch |
| Mytra | Builds robotic shuttle systems that move pallets through warehouses and supply chains. | $120M | Q1 2026 | Mytra |
| RobCo | Builds modular industrial robots for manufacturing SMEs in Europe and the U.S. | $100M | Q1 2026 | The Robot Report |
| Apptronik | Series A extension to accelerate humanoid robot production and commercial scaling. | $520M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| AI2 Robotics | Builds embodied AI robots including the AlphaBot wheeled humanoid, with a focus on China. | $144.7M | Q1 2026 | The Robot Report |
| Bedrock Robotics | Builds retrofit autonomy kits that let excavators operate without a human in the cab. | $270M | Q1 2026 | The Robot Report |
| Mind Robotics | Builds AI-powered industrial robots for dexterous factory tasks requiring real-time reasoning. | $500M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| RoboForce | Builds the Titan humanoid robot for outdoor industrial work in solar, mining, and manufacturing. | $52M | Q1 2026 | The Robot Report |
| Lucid Bots | Builds autonomous window-washing drones and pressure-washing robots for cleaning contractors. | $20M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Shield AI | Builds autonomous defense aircraft and drones powered by its Hivemind AI pilot. | $2,000M | Q1 2026 | The Robot Report |
| PDW | Builds multi-mission defense drones and autonomous systems for defense markets. | $110M | Q1 2026 | The Robot Report |
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How has funding activity in the robotics market changed over time?
Q1 2026 was the most active quarter by a wide margin, raising nearly $3.84 billion, but that number is almost entirely explained by three mega-deals: Shield AI ($2B), Apptronik's extension ($520M), and Mind Robotics ($500M).
Q1 2025 was the least active quarter with $885M raised across 8 deals, though it still included solid mid-sized rounds from Apptronik and Agility Robotics, meaning it was never a slow market.
Robotics market funding grew roughly 270% from Q1 2025 ($885M) to Q1 2026 ($3.84B), and rose about 276% compared to Q4 2025 ($1.04B) just one quarter earlier.
If you set aside the top two deals each quarter, the underlying robotics market funding trend looks far more stable: most quarters cluster between $400M and $700M, suggesting a healthy and consistent mid-market even as mega-rounds skew the headline totals upward.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Total raised | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 8 | $885M | Solid start led by Apptronik's $350M Series A and Fourier Intelligence, with no deal below $30M. |
| Q2 2025 | 8 | $946M | Agility Robotics' $400M round dominated; strong surgical and service robot activity filled the rest. |
| Q3 2025 | 9 | $1,423M | Figure's $1B+ Series C alone accounted for over 70% of the quarter's total, skewing the result heavily. |
| Q4 2025 | 12 | $1,037M | Broadest quarter with 12 deals; funding was spread across humanoids, surgical, agtech, and warehouse robots. |
| Q1 2026 | 10 | $3,837M | Largest quarter by far, driven by Shield AI ($2B), Apptronik extension ($520M), and Mind Robotics ($500M). |
| All quarters | 47 | $8,128M | Strong acceleration in capital deployment, with Q1 2026 alone representing 47% of all funds raised. |
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Which startups in the robotics market raised the largest rounds over the last months?
These startups raised the most recently in the robotics market:
- Shield AI raised $2 billion through a Series G and preferred equity package to fund autonomous defense drone development and its acquisition of Aechelon, making it the largest single robotics round in this entire period.
- Figure raised over $1 billion in its Series C to scale its general-purpose humanoid robot fleet, hire data engineers, and build the training infrastructure needed to move from pilots to real factory deployments.
- Apptronik raised a $520M Series A extension bringing total funding to $935M, backed by Google and Mercedes-Benz, to accelerate production of its Apollo humanoid robot for North American industrial customers.
- Mind Robotics raised $500M in a Series A co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz to deploy AI-powered robots into industrial manufacturing environments at scale.
- Agility Robotics raised $400M to scale production of its Digit humanoid robot for warehouse and logistics customers in North America.
- Apptronik raised $350M in its original Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google participating, to move Apollo from pilot programs to commercial deployment.
- Bedrock Robotics raised $270M in a Series B to scale its retrofit excavator autonomy kits from individual machines to connected fleets across North American construction sites.
- Leju Robotics raised around $200M to increase humanoid robot production capacity and compete in China's rapidly expanding humanoid robotics market.
- Dexory raised $165M to accelerate its warehouse scanning robot deployments and expand its inventory intelligence platform across Europe and North America.
- CMR Surgical raised $160M in equity and debt financing to keep expanding commercial and clinical use of its Versius soft-tissue surgical robot in hospitals worldwide.
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Is the robotics market shifting toward smaller or bigger deals?
Across all five quarters, the average robotics market deal size was about $173M, which sounds large but is heavily pulled upward by a small number of outliers like Shield AI and Figure.
Looking quarter by quarter, the mean deal size went from $111M in Q1 2025 to $384M in Q1 2026, but Q1 2026's average is almost entirely explained by three mega-rounds, so this is not a sign that typical robotics startups are raising much larger amounts. The rising average reflects a winner-take-more dynamic at the top of the market, not a broad shift across all deal sizes.
If you exclude the single largest deal each quarter, the average deal size in the robotics market stays in the $80M to $120M range across all periods, which suggests the underlying market for robotics funding is actually quite stable.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Average deal size | Deals below $2M | Deals above $50M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 8 | $111M | 0 | 6 |
| Q2 2025 | 8 | $118M | 0 | 6 |
| Q3 2025 | 9 | $158M | 0 | 5 |
| Q4 2025 | 12 | $86M | 1 | 7 |
| Q1 2026 | 10 | $384M | 0 | 9 |
| All quarters | 47 | $173M | 1 | 33 |
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How concentrated was funding activity in the robotics market?
Robotics market funding was highly concentrated in most quarters: the single largest deal captured between 20% and 70% of all dollars raised in a given quarter, which means investors backing the biggest platforms are having an outsized effect on the overall numbers. Q3 2025 was the most extreme case, with Figure's $1B+ round representing over 70% of all robotics funding that quarter.
Q4 2025 stands out as the only quarter where the top deal captured less than 20% of total funding, which makes it the most balanced quarter in terms of capital distribution across the robotics market, with meaningful rounds going to warehouse robots, surgical robots, agricultural robots, and humanoids at similar sizes.
| Quarter | Number of deals | % by Top 1 | % by Top 3 | % by Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 8 | 39.5% | 66.6% | 100.0% |
| Q2 2025 | 8 | 42.3% | 72.4% | 100.0% |
| Q3 2025 | 9 | 70.3% | 87.1% | 100.0% |
| Q4 2025 | 12 | 19.3% | 49.7% | 99.6% |
| Q1 2026 | 10 | 52.1% | 77.4% | 100.0% |
| All quarters | 47 | 24.6% | 51.0% | 88.9% |
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Which categories in the robotics market received the most funding?
Humanoid robots captured about $3.27 billion across 13 deals, making them 40% of all robotics market funding in this period. This is not a single-company story: U.S. companies like Apptronik, Figure, and Agility each raised large rounds, while Chinese developers including Leju Robotics, Robot Era, and Zhongqing Robot added hundreds of millions more, showing the humanoid robotics race is now a genuinely global competition.
Defense robotics came in second at $2.11 billion across just two deals, but that figure is almost entirely due to Shield AI's $2B financing package in Q1 2026, which was the largest single robotics round in the entire period, so the category's position here reflects one exceptional round rather than broad deal activity.
Surgical robotics ranked third at $643M across six distinct companies, making it the category with the most consistent deal volume relative to its total dollars raised. Unlike humanoids or defense, surgical robotics funding did not depend on one or two breakout rounds, which suggests hospital and medtech buyers are consistently validating the commercial case for robotic surgery across multiple geographies and procedure types.
| Category | Number of deals | Total raised | Startups and amounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humanoids | 13 | $3,272M | Apptronik ($350M + $53M + $520M), Agility Robotics ($400M), Figure ($1,000M+), Leju Robotics ($200M), Robot Era ($140M), AI2 Robotics ($144.7M), RoboForce ($52M), NEURA Robotics ($130M), X Square Robot ($100M), Zhongqing Robot ($140M), Noetix Robotics ($42M) |
| Defense robotics | 2 | $2,110M | Shield AI ($2,000M), PDW ($110M) |
| Surgical robotics | 6 | $643M | CMR Surgical ($160M), ForSight Robotics ($125M), Distalmotion ($150M), Surgerii Robotics ($100M), Ronovo Surgical ($100M), AiM Medical Robotics ($8.1M) |
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Who are the biggest investors in the robotics market?
B Capital Group participated in two Apptronik rounds (Q1 2025 and the Q1 2026 extension context), making them one of the most consistently committed investors in the humanoid segment of the robotics market, backing the same platform across two separate fundraising events.
Capital Factory also appeared in both Apptronik rounds, reflecting its early conviction in humanoid robotics and its willingness to follow on as the company scaled from pilot programs toward commercial production.
Google backed Apptronik in both its Q1 2025 Series A and the Q1 2026 extension, making it a notable strategic investor in humanoid robotics with a direct interest in deploying robots in physical work environments.
Eclipse Ventures led ForSight Robotics' Series B in Q2 2025 and also participated in Mytra's Series C in Q1 2026, spanning both surgical robotics and warehouse robotics, which shows a broad physical-world automation thesis rather than a single subcategory bet.
Offline Ventures appeared in both Coco Robotics (Q2 2025) and Mytra (Q1 2026), consistently backing robotics companies at the intersection of logistics and autonomous systems.
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 Group | 2 | $923M | Apptronik (Q1 2025 Series A), Apptronik (Q1 2026 extension) |
| Capital Factory | 2 | $923M | Apptronik (Q1 2025 Series A), Apptronik (Q1 2026 extension) |
| 2 | $923M | Apptronik (Q1 2025 Series A), Apptronik (Q1 2026 extension) | |
| Eclipse Ventures | 2 | $245M | ForSight Robotics (Q2 2025), Mytra (Q1 2026) |
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