What are the top robotics startups by total funding raised?

Top startups in the Robotics market ranked by total funding raised

Here is an updated table that ranks the top startups in the Robotics market based on the total amount of funding they have raised to date.

The table also includes the total number of funding rounds, the date and size of the latest round, the financing type (e.g. Series A, equity financing), key investors, the startup’s current status (active, IPO, acquired, or shut down), and a confidence score based on the data collected (we excluded startups with very low data confidence, to make sure everything is reliable).

If you need to dig deeper and get more detailed data, please check our report covering the Robotics market.

Which robotics startups have raised the most funding?

The biggest robotics fundraisers now sit well above the $1 billion mark, and several newer physical-AI companies have already overtaken the leaders in the original dataset.

The supplied ranking puts CMR Surgical first at $1.2 billion, followed by Apptronik at $963 million, Geek+ at $871 million, Auris Health at $733 million and Symbotic at $730 million. That gives a good picture of where capital accumulated across surgical robotics, warehouse automation and humanoids over many years.

The wider market has moved quickly, though. Skild AI has raised about $2.2 billion according to its reconstructed funding history, including a $1.4 billion Series C announced in January 2026. Figure has raised well above $1.7 billion once its $1 billion-plus Series C is combined with its earlier rounds. NEURA Robotics then announced a Series C of up to $1.4 billion in June 2026, which also pushes it into the very top group.

So the original table remains useful as a large robotics dataset, but its first few positions are already stale if the goal is a literal ranking of the most funded robotics startups today.

Rank in supplied dataset	Company	Funding in dataset	Main robotics market
1	CMR Surgical	$1.20B	Surgical robotics
2	Apptronik	$963M	Humanoid robotics
3	Geek+	$871M	Warehouse robotics
4	Auris Health	$733M	Surgical robotics
5	Symbotic	$730M	Warehouse automation
6	PROCEPT BioRobotics	$699M	Surgical robotics
7	Berkshire Grey	$692M	Warehouse robotics
8	Agility Robotics	$579M	Humanoid robotics
9	GreyOrange	$524M	Warehouse robotics
10	Serve Robotics	$502M	Delivery robotics

Is CMR Surgical really the most funded robotics startup?

No. CMR Surgical leads the supplied ranking at $1.2 billion, but several robotics and physical-AI startups have now raised more.

CMR is still a very heavily funded company. Its Versius surgical robot has been used in more than 30,000 procedures, and the company announced more than $200 million of new financing in April 2025 to accelerate commercial expansion, especially in the United States. That financing included both equity and debt, so the full headline amount should not automatically be added to a cumulative equity total.

The bigger change happened elsewhere. Skild AI's reconstructed cumulative funding is around $2.2 billion. Figure's financing history exceeds $1.7 billion after its $1 billion-plus Series C. NEURA Robotics announced a Series C of up to $1.4 billion after previously raising substantial capital.

Physical Intelligence also belongs in the conversation. TechCrunch reported earlier in 2026 that it had already raised just over $1 billion, while Bloomberg later reported discussions for another roughly $1 billion round. Because those discussions were not initially announced as a completed transaction, we would keep the proposed round separate until completion is clearly documented.

CMR remains one of the biggest funded surgical-robotics companies. Calling it the world's most funded robotics startup today would be outdated.

How concentrated is robotics startup funding?

Robotics funding is concentrated at the top, with the first 20 companies in the supplied dataset accounting for more than half of all capital represented in the table.

We calculate roughly $21.1 billion across the 95 companies. The top five account for about $4.5 billion. The top 10 reach roughly $7.5 billion, or 35% of the total, and the top 20 reach about $11.7 billion, or 55%.

The median company has raised around $143 million, while the mean is roughly $223 million. That gap shows how much the largest companies pull the average upward.

Still, robotics has a much deeper funding base than a market where five companies absorb nearly everything. Companies ranked 21 through 95 represent more than $9 billion combined, spread across warehouse automation, medical robots, industrial systems, agriculture, delivery and other niches.

A robotics startup with $100 million of funding therefore looks well financed in absolute terms but remains far below the sector's biggest capital pools. The very top companies operate on a completely different financial scale.

Part of supplied ranking	Combined funding	Share of total
Top 5	~$4.50B	~21%
Top 10	~$7.49B	~35%
Top 20	~$11.69B	~55%
Companies 21–50	~$5.98B	~28%
Companies 51–95	~$3.47B	~16%
All 95 companies	~$21.14B	100%
Median company	$143M	-

Is robotics funding booming right now?

Yes. Robotics funding is currently running at record levels, and the jump is far too large to explain with one or two headline rounds.

Crunchbase counted roughly $15 billion invested globally in robotics startups during 2025, already a record. By late June 2026, its running total had reached $18.8 billion. That had already exceeded both the previous year and the roughly $14.1 billion recorded during the 2021 venture boom.

The size of individual rounds has changed as well. Robotics companies once needed several rounds to accumulate a few hundred million dollars. These days, a single physical-AI financing can reach $500 million, $1 billion or more.

The money is broader than humanoids alone. Recent large rounds have reached foundation-model companies, industrial robots, service robots, warehouse automation and full-stack physical-AI businesses.

That breadth makes the current cycle harder to dismiss as a narrow speculative rush around one robot format. Investors are putting record amounts of money into several different ways of automating physical work.

Are humanoid robots taking over robotics funding?

Humanoid robotics is taking a huge share of new funding, although warehouse and surgical robotics still hold more accumulated capital inside the supplied dataset.

Apptronik has raised nearly $1 billion. Agility Robotics has raised hundreds of millions and is now pursuing a public listing through a SPAC transaction that could provide more than $620 million of gross proceeds if completed as planned. Figure raised more than $1 billion in its Series C alone. NEURA announced an even larger Series C of up to $1.4 billion.

Dealroom calculated that humanoid robotics startups had attracted about $8.7 billion in venture funding during 2026 through July 22, already almost twice the total invested during all of 2025.

The category is also becoming more international. Dealroom found that China represented roughly two-thirds of humanoid venture investment during that same 2026 period, while the United States represented around 15%.

That does not erase the enormous capital already invested in warehouse and surgical robotics. It does show where the strongest acceleration is happening now. Humanoids have moved from a relatively small robotics niche into one of the main places where investors are willing to make billion-dollar bets.

Why has Apptronik raised so much money?

Apptronik has raised nearly $1 billion because investors are financing a serious attempt to manufacture and deploy humanoid robots at industrial scale.

The company's initial Series A was $415 million. In February 2026, Apptronik added a $520 million Series A-X extension, bringing that financing to more than $935 million and total capital raised to nearly $1 billion.

The investor list is unusually strategic. Google, Mercedes-Benz and B Capital returned, while Qatar Investment Authority, John Deere and AT&T Ventures joined. Apptronik has also worked with Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics and Jabil, while collaborating with Google DeepMind on robot intelligence.

The size of the financing is striking when we compare it with the wider dataset. Apptronik's $520 million extension by itself exceeds the entire cumulative funding of 86 of the 95 companies in the supplied table.

Investors are effectively giving Apptronik enough capital to attack several expensive problems at once: robot hardware, AI, manufacturing, data collection, safety, deployments and customer support.

Few robotics startups historically had the balance sheet to try all of those simultaneously.

What are the biggest recent robotics funding rounds?

The largest recent robotics rounds now routinely reach hundreds of millions of dollars, while the very biggest have crossed $1 billion.

Skild AI announced a $1.4 billion Series C. NEURA Robotics followed with a Series C of up to $1.4 billion. Figure raised more than $1 billion in its Series C. Apptronik added $520 million to its Series A, while Standard Bots raised $200 million for industrial robotics.

Pudu Robotics provides a useful comparison outside humanoids. The commercial service-robot company announced nearly $150 million of new financing and said its valuation had passed $1.5 billion.

FieldAI is another important example because it focuses on general-purpose robot intelligence rather than one robot body. The company announced $405 million raised across two consecutive rounds in 2025.

The common thread is physical AI. Investors are now willing to fund robot intelligence, manufacturing capacity and real-world data collection at a scale that used to be reserved for the largest software and AI companies.

Company	Major recent financing	Amount	Main focus
Skild AI	Series C	$1.40B	General robot intelligence
NEURA Robotics	Series C	Up to $1.40B	Cognitive and humanoid robots
Figure	Series C	>$1.00B	Humanoid robotics
Apptronik	Series A-X	$520M	Humanoid robotics
FieldAI	Two rounds	$405M	Robot foundation models
Standard Bots	Series C	$200M	Industrial robotics
Pudu Robotics	Growth financing	~$150M	Service robotics

Is warehouse robotics still one of the best-funded parts of robotics?

Yes. Warehouse and logistics robotics remains the largest category in the supplied dataset, with roughly $6.6 billion invested across 27 companies.

That capital base has been built over years. Geek+ sits at $871 million in the supplied ranking, Symbotic at $730 million, Berkshire Grey at $692 million, GreyOrange at $524 million, Locus Robotics at $470 million and Exotec at $446 million.

Several of those companies have moved well beyond early venture experimentation. Geek+ listed in Hong Kong in 2025. Its first-half 2025 results showed revenue of RMB 1.025 billion, up 31% year over year, while adjusted EBITDA turned positive. Orders reached RMB 1.76 billion, also up about 30%.

Exotec raised $335 million in its Series D at a $2 billion valuation back in 2022. Vecna Robotics then raised another $31 million in September 2026 and said demand for its CaseFlow product had more than doubled year over year since launch.

Warehouse robotics is still attracting fresh money while some of its largest companies are already reporting substantial revenue, repeat orders and public-market access.

Why do surgical robotics startups raise so much money?

Surgical robotics is expensive to build, regulate and sell, which is why the category has produced so many companies with several hundred million dollars of funding.

We count roughly $5.7 billion across 17 surgical-robotics companies in the supplied dataset. CMR Surgical alone has around $1.2 billion. Auris Health raised $733 million before Johnson & Johnson bought it. PROCEPT BioRobotics stands at $699 million in the table, while Noah Medical, Distalmotion, Medical Microinstruments and Neocis have each raised substantial nine-figure totals.

The economics behind those numbers are fairly intuitive. A surgical robotics startup has to fund hardware development, clinical work, regulatory approvals, manufacturing, physician training, hospital sales and support before reaching large scale.

The acquisition values can also be enormous. Johnson & Johnson paid approximately $3.4 billion upfront for Auris Health in 2019, with additional contingent consideration originally attached to the transaction.

PROCEPT followed another route and accessed public equity markets after its IPO. In 2023, the company said a follow-on equity offering generated roughly $162 million in net proceeds.

Surgical robotics has been absorbing huge amounts of capital for much longer than the current humanoid boom.

Are investors now funding robot AI more aggressively than robot hardware?

Yes. Some of the largest robotics financings now target the AI layer that controls robots rather than one specific machine.

Skild AI describes its goal as building a general-purpose robot brain capable of controlling different robot bodies. FieldAI is developing general-purpose autonomy for robots operating in complex industrial environments. Physical Intelligence is working on foundation models that can learn many physical tasks instead of controlling one narrow application.

This changes the scale investors can imagine. A warehouse robot company ultimately sells into warehouse automation. A foundation-model company can argue that the same intelligence could eventually work across warehouses, factories, homes, delivery systems and other machines.

The commercial evidence is starting to catch up with that pitch. In September 2026, Skild AI said it had crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue just ten months after its first commercial deployment.

FieldAI said its systems had already been tested or deployed across hundreds of complex real-world industrial environments when it announced $405 million of funding.

Investors are increasingly treating robot intelligence as a potential horizontal platform. That helps explain why the funding rounds can resemble those of major AI labs.

Which robotics startups have raised money most recently?

Recent robotics funding is spread across humanoids, industrial automation, warehouses and service robots rather than being confined to one hot category.

Vecna Robotics announced $31 million in September 2026 to meet growing demand for warehouse and manufacturing automation. Standard Bots raised $200 million in June at a $1 billion valuation. Pudu Robotics raised nearly $150 million earlier in the year. Apptronik closed its $520 million extension in February.

NEURA Robotics's huge Series C provides another example of how quickly the top of the market is changing. The company said the financing could reach $1.4 billion, backed by investors including Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, NVIDIA, Bosch, Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank.

These companies sell very different things. Vecna moves goods, Standard Bots automates manufacturing tasks, Pudu sells commercial service robots, Apptronik is building humanoids, and NEURA spans humanoids, robotic arms, mobile robots and physical AI.

Current funding strength reaches well beyond the humanoid story that dominates most robotics headlines.

Who are the biggest investors in robotics startups?

The biggest robotics investors today include major venture funds, technology companies, industrial groups and sovereign capital, with several names appearing repeatedly across very different robot categories.

SoftBank has backed CMR Surgical, Agility Robotics, Berkshire Grey, KEENON Robotics and Skild AI. NVIDIA's venture arm appears across physical-AI and robotics investments including Skild AI, Agility and Neocis. Google has invested in Apptronik and has deep relationships with several physical-AI teams.

General Catalyst appears behind Standard Bots and Collaborative Robotics. Khosla Ventures has funded robotics and autonomy companies including Berkshire Grey, Vicarious and FieldAI. Lux Capital has backed companies including Auris Health, Collaborative Robotics and Physical Intelligence.

Industrial investors are becoming harder to separate from financial investors. Mercedes-Benz invested in Apptronik while also exploring industrial deployments. Schaeffler invested in Agility Robotics and later appeared among NEURA's Series C investors. John Deere joined Apptronik's latest round. Amazon-linked capital appears across industrial and humanoid robotics.

SoftBank remains unusually visible, but no single fund controls the current robotics financing landscape.

Investor or group	Examples of robotics exposure	Areas
SoftBank	CMR Surgical, Agility, Berkshire Grey, KEENON, Skild AI	Medical, humanoids, logistics
NVIDIA / NVentures	Skild AI, Agility, Neocis, FieldAI	Physical AI, humanoids, medical
Google ecosystem	Apptronik, Physical Intelligence	Humanoids, robot AI
General Catalyst	Standard Bots, Collaborative Robotics	Industrial robotics
Khosla Ventures	Berkshire Grey, Vicarious, FieldAI	Logistics, AI, autonomy
Lux Capital	Auris, Collaborative Robotics, Physical Intelligence	Medical, physical AI
QIA	Apptronik, Mujin	Humanoid, industrial
Schaeffler	Agility Robotics, NEURA Robotics	Humanoids, industrial

Does counting IPO money change the robotics funding ranking?

Yes. Including IPOs, PIPEs and follow-on equity can move public robotics companies much higher than they would appear in a private venture-only ranking.

Geek+'s position includes its public-market financing. Symbotic's cumulative figure includes capital connected with its de-SPAC transaction. PROCEPT BioRobotics has raised substantial equity through both its IPO and later public offerings.

Serve Robotics makes the distinction especially clear. An SEC filing shows that Serve sold approximately 7.7 million shares through an at-the-market program and generated about $91.2 million of gross proceeds before terminating that program in May 2026.

That is genuine equity capital entering the company, so it belongs in a ranking of cumulative equity raised. It tells us something different from a Series C, though.

A private venture round measures what a relatively small group of investors was prepared to fund at a negotiated valuation. An ATM offering raises money continuously from public-market buyers.

For a cumulative equity ranking, both can be counted. Readers should simply understand why two companies with identical totals may have reached them through completely different financing paths.

Should acquired robotics companies still appear in the funding ranking?

Yes. Acquired robotics companies still tell us where large amounts of equity capital went, as long as their acquired status is obvious.

Fifteen companies in the supplied dataset are marked acquired. They include Auris Health, Berkshire Grey, Asensus Surgical, Bear Robotics, Corindus Vascular Robotics, Cobalt Robotics and Blue River Technology.

Removing those businesses would erase an important part of the market's funding history. Auris alone raised $733 million in the supplied dataset before Johnson & Johnson acquired it for approximately $3.4 billion upfront. Berkshire Grey accumulated roughly $692 million in the table before SoftBank took the company private.

Those companies should obviously be separated from independent startups when someone asks who is still competing today.

For a question such as “Which robotics companies have raised the most money?”, however, their historical funding remains relevant. It shows where investors placed large bets and what ultimately happened to those bets.

The status column carries real analytical value. A $700 million active startup, a $700 million acquired company and a $700 million public company represent three very different outcomes even if their cumulative equity totals look similar.

Does raising more money mean a robotics startup is winning?

No. A large robotics funding total shows that a company convinced investors to keep providing capital, but it does not prove that the business or technology won its market.

The supplied dataset contains several reminders. Vicarious Surgical accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars before shutting down. The original Rethink Robotics raised around $150 million before closing. Rapid Robotics raised more than $50 million and also shut down.

Acquisitions create another outcome. Auris Health raised heavily and ended in a multibillion-dollar acquisition, which looks very different from a shutdown even though neither survives as an independent startup.

Then there are companies such as Geek+, Exotec and PROCEPT where financing has been followed by sizeable commercial operations or access to public markets.

For humanoids, the gap between funding and proven scale is especially important right now. Several companies already have balance sheets comparable with mature robotics businesses while commercial deployments remain much earlier.

Funding is a strong measure of investor conviction and financial firepower. We would never use it alone to decide which robot company has the best technology or the strongest business.

What types of robotics startups attract the most funding?

Warehouse, surgical and industrial robotics still account for most accumulated funding in the supplied dataset, despite the much louder attention around humanoids today.

We classify roughly $6.6 billion of the table as warehouse and logistics robotics. Surgical robotics contributes about $5.7 billion, while industrial robotics adds roughly $2.6 billion.

Explicit humanoid companies in the supplied dataset represent only around $1.8 billion, although that figure badly understates the current market because Figure, Skild AI and several other heavily funded physical-AI companies are absent, while NEURA's figure is outdated.

Agricultural robotics is almost the opposite story. The table contains many agriculture companies, but their combined financing is only around $1.15 billion. Capital there is spread across smaller specialists in spraying, weeding, tractors, harvesting and autonomous field equipment.

The historical pattern is easy to see: investors first poured money into robotics where the job could be clearly defined and the customer could calculate a return. The newest physical-AI bets are much broader.

Robotics category in supplied dataset	Companies	Approx. funding	Share
Warehouse & logistics	27	$6.61B	31%
Surgical robotics	17	$5.71B	27%
Industrial robotics	13	$2.61B	12%
Humanoid robotics	4	$1.80B	9%
Agriculture	16	$1.15B	5%
Service robotics	5	$983M	5%
Delivery robotics	2	$783M	4%
Other categories	11	~$1.52B	~7%

Are newer robotics startups raising money faster than older ones did?

Yes. The biggest physical-AI startups are accumulating billion-dollar funding totals in only a few years.

Skild AI was founded in 2023 and already sits around $2.2 billion of cumulative financing. Figure was founded in 2022 and has raised well above $1 billion. Physical Intelligence was founded in 2024 and had already raised just over $1 billion according to reporting earlier this year.

Compare that pace with warehouse robotics. Exotec was founded in 2015 and reached $446 million in the supplied dataset after several major rounds. Locus Robotics, also from the previous robotics generation, has accumulated around $470 million across roughly ten rounds.

The difference comes partly from the ambition investors are pricing in. A specialized robot company usually has to prove one workflow, then sell more systems into that workflow.

Physical-AI companies are pitching intelligence that could eventually control several robot bodies and automate many workflows. That creates a much larger theoretical market and much larger compute, data and engineering budgets.

Investors are funding that possibility unusually early. Whether the commercial results eventually match the financing remains one of the biggest open questions in robotics.

Is China becoming more important in robotics funding?

Yes. China is becoming much more important in robotics funding, especially across humanoids, warehouse automation and commercial service robots.

The supplied dataset already contains Geek+, Dobot, Pudu Robotics, Hai Robotics, Flexiv, KEENON Robotics, Quicktron and ForwardX Robotics.

These are increasingly large companies rather than small local experiments. Geek+ reached the Hong Kong public market. Pudu's latest financing pushed its announced valuation above $1.5 billion. Dobot is publicly listed and continues raising equity.

Humanoid financing makes the shift even clearer. Dealroom's 2026 data through July 22 put China's share of global humanoid venture funding at roughly two-thirds, compared with around one-quarter in 2020.

That is a huge geographic change in only a few years.

Chinese robotics companies also operate across manufacturing ecosystems with dense local supply chains for motors, batteries, electronics and components. Money is flowing into companies that can combine software, hardware and manufacturing much closer together than many Western startups can.

Any current robotics funding analysis that treats the market mainly as Silicon Valley plus a few European startups now misses a large part of the picture.

Is agricultural robotics attracting serious funding?

Yes, but agricultural robotics funding is spread across many specialized companies rather than concentrated in a few billion-dollar platforms.

The supplied dataset contains 16 agriculture-focused companies with around $1.15 billion of cumulative funding. Ecorobotix leads at $231 million, followed by Monarch Tractor at $214 million and Carbon Robotics at $177 million.

Further down are FarmWise, Naïo Technologies, Verdant Robotics, Agtonomy, Tevel, Burro, SwarmFarm Robotics, Bonsai Robotics, Aigen and several others.

These companies attack very different jobs: autonomous tractors, precision spraying, laser weed control, fruit harvesting, material transport and field autonomy.

That fragmentation helps explain why fundraising totals remain smaller. An investor looking at robotic weeding does not automatically get exposure to harvesting, tractors or spraying.

Agricultural robotics has attracted real capital and a surprisingly large number of startups, but it has yet to produce the same giant financing pools we now see in humanoids, surgical robotics or warehouse automation.

Are service and delivery robots becoming big businesses?

Some service and delivery robot companies have reached serious scale, but the category remains fragmented by use case.

Serve Robotics has around $502 million in the supplied dataset. Pudu Robotics has raised more than $300 million cumulatively according to its latest company announcement. Starship Technologies sits at $281 million in the table, KEENON Robotics at $250 million and Bear Robotics at $177 million.

Pudu is especially interesting today because its latest round was nearly $150 million. The company said the money would go toward embodied AI, manufacturing capacity, product development and international expansion.

Serve has taken a different route by accessing public equity markets as it expands autonomous sidewalk delivery.

Restaurant robots, hotel delivery robots, cleaning robots and sidewalk delivery vehicles can all fall loosely under “service robotics,” but their economics are very different. A cleaning robot deployed across hundreds of stores has little operational resemblance to a sidewalk delivery fleet.

There is already enough money and deployment activity to create large companies in service robotics. There is still no single service-robot market where every company is chasing the same customer and business model.

Are industrial robot startups becoming unicorns again?

Yes. Industrial robotics is producing new billion-dollar companies as AI makes traditional robot hardware easier to program and useful for more tasks.

Standard Bots raised $200 million in a Series C announced in June 2026 at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by RoboStrategy with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst.

That financing is unusually large for a company selling industrial robotic arms, and the AI angle is central to the pitch. Standard Bots is trying to make industrial automation easier to deploy without the heavy programming traditionally associated with factory robots.

The supplied dataset shows the category already has several well-funded companies. Dobot sits at $423 million, Agile Robots at $380 million, Flexiv at $324 million, Mujin at $244 million and Collaborative Robotics at $140 million.

Industrial robotics is benefiting from the same physical-AI enthusiasm as humanoids, but with a more immediate commercial setting: factories already buy robots, already know which tasks they want to automate and already measure throughput.

That combination gives industrial robotics one of the clearer routes from AI enthusiasm to actual customer spending.

Are today's hottest robotics startups the same companies that raised the most money historically?

No. Cumulative funding and current investor attention now produce noticeably different robotics leaderboards.

The supplied ranking is filled with companies that accumulated capital over many years: CMR Surgical, Auris Health, Geek+, Symbotic, PROCEPT BioRobotics, Berkshire Grey, GreyOrange and Exotec.

Current mega-round activity is much more concentrated around physical AI, humanoids and flexible industrial robotics. Skild AI, Figure, NEURA Robotics and Apptronik have moved into the top funding tier very quickly.

At the same time, newer industrial companies such as Standard Bots can now raise $200 million in one round, while foundation-model companies such as FieldAI can accumulate more than $400 million before becoming household names.

This is why a cumulative ranking and a “who is hot right now?” ranking should never be confused.

Cumulative funding tells us where investors committed money over the full life of a company. Recent rounds show where capital is accelerating today.

A good robotics market analysis needs both views because the sector's historical giants and its newest investor favorites are increasingly different groups of companies.

So what does the robotics startup funding ranking tell us today?

The robotics funding market is bigger, faster and more top-heavy than the supplied ranking initially suggests, with physical AI now reshaping a leaderboard historically dominated by warehouse and surgical robotics.

The 95 companies in the supplied dataset represent roughly $21.1 billion of cumulative financing. Warehouse and logistics robotics account for about $6.6 billion, surgical robotics for roughly $5.7 billion, and the top 20 companies hold more than half of the capital represented in the table.

Those numbers show where robotics investors spent heavily over the previous decade.

The newest funding cycle changes the picture at the top. Skild AI, Figure and NEURA Robotics now belong among the largest funded robotics companies, while Apptronik has reached nearly $1 billion after only a handful of financing events. Physical Intelligence has also crossed the billion-dollar cumulative mark, although we would keep any unconfirmed additional round separate until there is clear evidence that it closed.

Meanwhile, mature categories continue attracting money. Warehouse companies are reporting real revenue and large orders. Surgical robotics still consumes enormous amounts of capital. Industrial robotics is producing new unicorns.

The conclusion is pretty clear: robotics has moved into a much larger capital era. Specialized robots still account for most historical funding, while the fastest growth in new capital is coming from investors betting that AI can make robots useful across many more tasks. That shift is already large enough to reorder the top of the funding market.