Insider Brief
- Record investments for leading humanoid developers, signaling strong investor confidence in scalable AI-integrated robotics despite bubble concerns.
- China showed the most enthusiasm for robotics with multiple $100M+ rounds, focusing on manufacturing and service applications, while U.S. and European firms emphasized autonomy platforms.
- Trends leaned toward embodied AI and hardware-agnostic models, with funds supporting real-world deployments amid warnings of overhype in humanoids.
In 2025, robotics funding reached new heights, with AI Insider reporting the deals that highlight the sector’s rapid pursuit of humanoid and autonomous technologies. While the year featured diverse investments across geographies and applications, the largest rounds concentrated on scaling production, enhancing AI capabilities, and addressing real-world challenges like dexterity and safety.
Here are 12 of the year’s robotics funding stories people were talking about in 2025.
Figure AI: Over $1 Billion Series C
Figure surpassed $1 billion in committed Series C capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation to accelerate real-world deployment of its general-purpose humanoid robots. The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures, with proceeds funding production and deployments via BotQ, next-generation NVIDIA GPU infrastructure for Helix model training, and expanded multimodal data collection to improve performance.
UBTech: $1 Billion Credit Line
UBTech Robotics secured a $1 billion credit line from Hong Kong–Abu Dhabi investment firm Infini Capital to fund new production capacity, including a planned Middle East “super factory” and humanoid robotics research center, following a recent $309 million share placement that highlights growing investor bets on robotics and AI. The South China Morning Post reported the company reported a 27.5% revenue increase in the first half of 2025 while narrowing losses, and its Hong Kong–listed shares rose 4.8% after the funding announcement.
FieldAI: $405 Million in Oversubscribed Rounds
FieldAI raised $405 million across two consecutive oversubscribed funding rounds backed by Bezos Expeditions, BHP Ventures, Canaan Partners, Emerson Collective, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Prysm, and Temasek, with earlier investors including Gates Frontier and Samsung. The capital will accelerate global expansion, advance locomotion and manipulation for its hardware-agnostic Field Foundation Models (FFMs), and double headcount by year-end, drawing on a team of veterans from DeepMind, Google Brain, Tesla Autopilot, NASA JPL, SpaceX, Zoox, Cruise, Amazon, DARPA, and Toyota Research Institute.
Galbot: Over $300 Million New Round
Galbot raised more than $300 million in a new round, bringing total funding to about $800 million and valuing the company at $3 billion in what it describes as a record-setting financing for embodied AI and humanoid robotics. Backed by investors from China, Singapore, and the Middle East, Galbot is pursuing a full-stack strategy spanning proprietary datasets, foundation models, and humanoid hardware, with reported commercial deployments already underway across manufacturing, logistics, retail, healthcare, warehouses, and pilot hospital programs.
Robotera: $140 Million Series A+
Robotera closed a Series A+ round of nearly RMB 1 billion (about $140 million), led by Geely Capital with participation from BAIC Capital and existing strategic investors including Alibaba Group and Haier Capital, to accelerate development and scale production of its bipedal humanoids, wheeled service robots, and dexterous hands. Founded in 2023, the company reports early deployments with major global technology firms and plans to leverage automotive- and electronics-backed supply chains to compete in the increasingly crowded general-purpose robotics market.
X Square Robot: $140M in Series A+
X Square Robot secured nearly $140 in Series A+ funding co-led by Alibaba Cloud and CAS Investment, marking Alibaba Cloud’s first investment in embodied AI and highlighting growing strategic interest in the sector. Founded in late 2023, the company plans to use the capital to scale training of large embodied AI models, advance hardware such as its Quanta X2 humanoid robot, and expand real-world industrial and service deployments built on its WALL-A and open-sourced WALL-OSS foundation models.
EngineAI: $139 Million Across Rounds
EngineAI secured about 1 billion yuan (roughly $139 million) across two new funding rounds to accelerate development of its general-purpose humanoid robots, with the pre-Series A++ led by Rocket Capital and XPeng and the Series A1 backed by investors including JD.com, CATL Capital, Yintai Holdings, Tsinghua Holdings Capital, SenseCapital, Highlight Capital, and Baidu Ventures. Founded in 2022, the Shenzhen-based company is advancing humanoids powered by its proprietary SEED multimodal large model and plans to deploy the capital toward R&D, tighter AI–hardware integration, and international expansion.
Mind Robotics: $110 Million Seed
Mind Robotics was launched by Rivian as an industrial AI and robotics spinout backed by $110 million in external seed funding, aiming to train physical AI systems using Rivian’s operational data as part of a broader autonomy-and-robotics strategy. Rivian reported Q3 2025 results ahead of expectations with $24 million in gross profit on $1.56 billion in revenue, reaffirmed full-year guidance, and ended the quarter with $7.7 billion in liquidity.
Unitree Robotics: Valued at $1.4 Billion After Series C
Unitree Robotics raised a Series C round that values the company above 10 billion yuan (about $1.4 billion), with secondary market trades reportedly pushing the valuation past 15 billion yuan, led by investors including China Mobile’s fund, Tencent, Alibaba, Ant Group, Geely Capital, and Jinqiu Capital to support production and software development. Known for its robot dogs and humanoid robots priced from about $16,000, Unitree is seeing growing global adoption in research and industrial settings as founder Wang Xingxing’s profile rises alongside comparisons of AI’s impact to foundational technologies like electricity or the steam engine.
Generative Bionics: €70 Million (~$75 Million)
Generative Bionics secured investment from Tether Investments as part of a €70 million round to commercialize industrial-grade humanoid robots, building on two decades of research and exclusive technology licenses from the Italian Institute of Technology. The company plans to begin deployments in 2026 across manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, with Tether framing the deal as part of its broader strategy to back decentralized, infrastructure-focused technologies as humanoid robotics emerges as a fast-growing industrial category.
Flexion raised $50 million in a Series A round led by DST Global Partners with participation from NVentures, Redalpine, Prosus Ventures, and Moonfire, following a $7.35 million seed round, to expand R&D, scale compute and robot fleets, establish a U.S. presence, and accelerate OEM partnerships. The Zurich-based company is developing an autonomy stack for humanoid robots that combines language-based task reasoning, vision-language-action models, and transformer-driven whole-body control to enable adaptable, general-purpose deployment in real-world industrial settings.
Sunday: $35 Million Stealth Funding
Sunday emerged from stealth with $35 million in backing from Benchmark and Conviction to develop Memo, a home robot designed for chores such as dishes, laundry, and general tidying, trained on roughly 10 million real-world household episodes collected from more than 500 homes using the company’s Skill Capture Glove. The robot features a stable rolling base, soft silicone-clad residential hardware, and will enter a Founding Family Beta with 50 households in late 2026 as Sunday moves toward broader consumer deployment.