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Tracks venture funding rounds, deal sizes, and valuation trends across robotics and humanoid-robot startups.
Microagi's CEO says the company pays more than 35,000 people in over 15 countries to film physical tasks, Business Insider reported. Robotics is short of training data, so startups are buying footage of skilled work such as private cooking.
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Minerva Humanoids raised about $10M for Roger, a humanoid that bomb-disposal and energy specialists steer through VR while software keeps it upright. Paid pilots this fall will show whether crews pay for remote hands before autonomy.
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FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, five times last year's mark, Business Insider reported. The pitch is robots that cross changing sites like construction without a pre-built map, and so far only FieldAI has stated the setup savings.
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Maven Robotics won a large consumer goods contract in 2024 with a drawing of a robot and a promise to run mixed pallets from the warehouse system to the truck. Its CEO says eight robots do that work now.
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The German firm is taking 100% of Adlatus and its hundreds of deployed cleaning machines, and says it will replace their navigation with its own platform.
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The unit has not sold a robot, and the humanoid it must mass-produce this year exists publicly as a seventh-generation prototype. The eighth generation is the one meant to ship.
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