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Apptronik ·
Apptronik completes Series A-X financing, total Series A exceeds $935 million
Apptronik announced the completion of a $520 million Series A-X extension round; combined with its oversubscribed $415 million initial Series A in 2025, the total exceeds $935 million, bringing cumulative funding to nearly $1 billion.
普华资本 ·
Qiongche Intelligence completes several hundred million yuan Series A funding, with Puhua Capital and multiple institutions investing
Qiongche Intelligence announced the completion of a Series A funding round of several hundred million yuan. Investors include Puhua Capital, C Capital, Sea Limited, Prosperity7 Ventures, and multiple other overseas industrial parties and domestic institutions. The funds will be used for embodied brain R&D iteration and multi-scenario commercialization.
LimX Dynamics ·
LimX Dynamics completes $200 million Series B funding
LimX Dynamics announced the completion of a $200 million Series B funding round. Investors include Stone Venture, Oriental Fortune Capital and other institutions, as well as strategic industry investors such as JD.com and Zhongding Group, while existing shareholders including Shangqi Capital and NIO Capital continued to increase their investment. The company said it will increase R&D and market investment, focusing on three major capabilities: body hardware, cerebellum foundation models, and an embodied Agentic OS, and mentioned the TRON 2 multi-form embodied robot and the LimX COSA embodied intelligent agent OS system released in the past two months.
RobCo ·
RobCo closes $100 million Series C to advance Physical AI roadmap and expand in the US market
RobCo announced the close of a $100 million Series C round, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Exor's Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital and others.
Diligent ·
Serve Robotics completes acquisition of Diligent Robotics, bringing Moxi hospital robot into its autonomy platform
Serve Robotics announced it has completed its acquisition of Diligent Robotics, the maker of the autonomous hospital robot assistant Moxi. Moxi has been deployed at more than 25 hospital facilities across the US and has completed over 1.25 million autonomous deliveries, handling routine deliveries such as supplies, lab samples, and medications to give nurses more time to care for patients.
Diligent ·
Serve Robotics to acquire Diligent Robotics, expanding autonomous robotics platform to indoor hospital settings
Serve Robotics announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Diligent Robotics, with consideration consisting of $29 million in the company's common stock paid to Diligent shareholders (subject to adjustments such as net debt), plus up to $5.3 million in milestone earnouts. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, and Diligent will continue to operate as a Serve subsidiary under the leadership of Andrea Thomaz.
Skild AI ·
Skild AI announces completion of $1.4 billion Series C funding, valuation exceeds $14 billion
Skild AI announced the completion of a $1.4 billion Series C funding round led by SoftBank, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Macquarie Capital, Jeff Bezos, and others, at a valuation exceeding $14 billion.
Sharpa ·
Sharpa announces mass production of SharpaWave dexterous hand, to exhibit at CES 2026
Sharpa announced that mass production of its flagship dexterous hand, SharpaWave, has begun, with early customers including global technology companies and research universities.
Dobot/越疆机器人 ·
Dobot secures over 80.5 million yuan embodied intelligence robot order from Ruidefeng
On October 29, 2025, Dobot Robotics (2432.HK) signed a procurement contract with Ruidefeng Precision Technology Co., Ltd. totaling over 80.5 million yuan, covering products and solutions for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence collaborative robots. The robots will handle tasks including high-precision assembly, complex material flow, and flexible production line collaboration in new energy precision manufacturing scenarios. The two parties will also build an intelligent manufacturing solution based on Dobot's multi-form robots, including humanoid, wheeled, and multi-legged plus robotic arm configurations.
线性资本 ·
Founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robot dog company RIVR discusses last-mile delivery commercialization
Entrepreneurship Weekly interviewed Marko Bjelonic, founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robotics company RIVR, and Gus Leung, head of supply chain for China, about the progress of its robot dogs in last-mile delivery. In August this year, RIVR signed Just Eat Takeaway, Europe's largest food delivery platform; in the same period, it added Swiss Post and online supermarket Migros as customers, extending its business into fresh grocery delivery. It currently operates in Zurich, Leeds, Austin, and Boston, partnering with Evri, Veho, and others for door-to-door delivery.
Intrinsic ·
Foxconn and Intrinsic Form Joint Venture to Build Smart Factories for Electronics Assembly
Foxconn and Intrinsic announced at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 the formation of a US-headquartered joint venture aimed at moving electronics assembly from product-specific automation to more general-purpose intelligent robotics, with the goal of gradually achieving full-factory automation.
Figure AI ·
Figure 02 completes 11-month run at BMW Spartanburg plant, contributing to over 30,000 X3 vehicles, officially begins retirement
Figure AI released results from Figure 02's 11-month deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg: it ran 10-hour shifts each workday, loaded over 90,000 sheet metal parts, accumulated over 1,250 operating hours, contributed to the production of over 30,000 X3 vehicles, and the robot walked about 1.2 million steps, totaling over 200 miles.
线性资本 ·
Wujie Dynamics completes 300 million yuan angel round led by Sequoia China and Linear Capital
General-purpose embodied intelligent robotics company Wujie Dynamics announced on November 10 that it has completed a first angel funding round of 300 million yuan, led by Sequoia China and Linear Capital, with participation from Hillhouse Ventures, Horizon Robotics, Huaye Tiancheng, Zhongding Capital, BV Baidu Ventures, Tongge Venture Capital and others. Its angel+ round is nearing completion, bringing cumulative funding to over 500 million yuan.
Zeroth/元点智能 ·
Zeroth Completes Three Angel Rounds in Under a Year, Raising Over $70 Million at a $351 Million Valuation
Zeroth announced it has completed three angel rounds, raising over $70 million in total at a valuation of $351 million, less than a year after its founding.
线性资本 ·
Bot Auto completes first fully driverless truck real-world road test
Linear Capital portfolio company Bot Auto announced it has completed its first real-world road test in which the truck truly performed all operations on its own, with no one in the driver's seat, the back seat, or at a remote-control terminal, and no escort vehicle. During the test, the truck on a Texas highway handled scenarios including avoidance, detouring, merging, and responding to the appearance of a fire truck. The vehicle is equipped with 15 cameras, 8 lidars, and 3 millimeter-wave radars, with redundancy in perception, computing, actuation, and power supply; after the primary server is shut down it can switch to a backup server, and if the backup is also shut down, the vehicle control unit takes over to pull over and stop.
Figure AI ·
Figure AI and Brookfield Announce Strategic Partnership to Build Humanoid Robot Pretraining Dataset
Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Brookfield. Brookfield, which manages over 1 trillion USD in assets and owns more than 100,000 residential units, will help Figure build a real-world humanoid robot pretraining dataset, build the AI infrastructure needed to scale Helix (Figure's in-house vision-language-action model), and explore commercial deployment of humanoid robots.
Figure AI ·
Figure AI closes over $1 billion Series C at $39 billion post-money valuation
Figure AI announced over $1 billion in committed capital for its Series C round at a $39 billion post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from NVIDIA, Brookfield, Intel Capital, Salesforce, Qualcomm Ventures and others.
线性资本 ·
RIVR partners with Just Eat Takeaway to bring fully autonomous delivery robots to the European market
Swiss embodied intelligence company RIVR (formerly Swiss-Mile) announced a partnership with Just Eat Takeaway.com, Europe's largest food delivery platform, to bring fully autonomous delivery robots to the European market, starting in Zurich, Switzerland, where local restaurants have already begun delivering real orders.
线性资本 ·
White Rhino completes B+ funding round with SF Express and others participating; total B-round funding nears 500 million yuan
White Rhino, an L4 autonomous driving company, announced the completion of a B+ funding round. Existing shareholders SF Express and Linear Capital invested in three consecutive rounds within a year, while Jun Capital, 360 Fund, and Huatai Zijin joined as new shareholders. Total B-round funding has reached nearly 500 million yuan. The funds will go toward R&D of automotive-grade unmanned vehicle products, AI technology iteration, and expansion of commercial scenarios.
线性资本 ·
D-Robotics completes $100 million Series A funding, RDK S100 developer kit to go on sale in June
D-Robotics, under Horizon Robotics-W (9660.HK), announced the completion of a $100 million Series A funding round, with participation from more than 10 investment institutions including Hillhouse Venture Capital, 5Y Capital, and Linear Capital. CEO Wang Cong previously headed Horizon's AIoT and robotics business unit.