Humanoid robotics has gone from a speculative bet to one of the hottest investment categories in tech. Robotics startups raised $13.8 billion globally in 2025, up from $7.8 billion in 2024. 2026 is already on pace to break that again. The sector crossed $500 million in global sales revenue for the first time in 2025, and investors are now backing companies that are shipping real robots into real factories, not just lab demos. Below are the top humanoid robotics startups that have raised significant funding in 2026, ranked by total funding raised.
Key Takeaways
- Robotics startups raised $13.8 billion globally in 2025, and 2026 is already outpacing that
- Figure AI is the most funded pure-play humanoid robotics company with ~$1.9B total raised and a $39B valuation after its September 2025 Series C
- Skild AI raised $1.4 billion in January 2026, one of the largest single robotics funding rounds ever; total funding now exceeds $2B
- Apptronik closed a $520M Series A extension in February 2026, bringing its total Series A to over $935M at a $5.5B valuation
- NEURA Robotics raised $1.2 billion in March 2026, becoming Europe’s most funded humanoid robotics company
- Physical Intelligence is in active talks for a $1 billion round that would push its valuation above $11B
- Amazon, Nvidia, Google, SoftBank, and Mercedes-Benz are the most active corporate backers across the sector
- China is the scale leader in humanoid commercialization, with Unitree and AgiBot expected to account for nearly 80% of global humanoid shipments in 2026
- Goldman Sachs projects the humanoid robotics market to reach $38 billion by 2035
1. Figure AI
Total Funding: ~$1.9B | Latest Valuation: $39B | Latest Round: Series C, $1B+ (September 2025)
Figure AI is the most funded pure-play humanoid robotics company in the world. The company went from a $2.6 billion valuation in February 2024 to $39 billion after its Series C in September 2025, a 15x increase in 18 months and one of the fastest valuation runs in hardware startup history.
Founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, Figure builds full-body humanoid robots designed to work in unstructured environments alongside humans. Its Figure 02 robots logged over 1,250 hours of runtime at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg over 11 months, loading 90,000+ parts and contributing to the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles. That deployment validated what most investors wanted to see: humanoid robots actually working at commercial scale in a real factory.
The Series C exceeded $1 billion in committed capital and was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from Brookfield Asset Management, Nvidia, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Align Ventures. The company’s BotQ factory is now producing one robot every 90 minutes as of early 2026. Figure 03 was launched in October 2025, redesigned from the ground up for high-volume manufacturing and home environments, and was named a TIME Best Invention of 2025.
Key Investors: Parkway Venture Capital, Brookfield Asset Management, Nvidia, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Salesforce, LG Technology Ventures, T-Mobile Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Amazon, Jeff Bezos
2. Skild AI
Total Funding: $2B+ | Latest Valuation: $14B+ | Latest Round: $1.4B Series C (January 14, 2026)
Skild AI is building what it calls an “omni-bodied” AI brain for robots, a single foundation model that can control any robot, on any hardware, for any task without requiring extensive retraining. Rather than building a robot body, Skild is building the intelligence layer that powers all of them.
Founded in 2023 in Pittsburgh by former Carnegie Mellon University professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, the company raised $1.4 billion in its Series C on January 14, 2026. The round was led by SoftBank Group, with participation from NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Macquarie Capital, Jeff Bezos via Bezos Expeditions, Disruptive, and 1789 Capital. Existing investors Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue, and Sequoia Capital doubled down. Strategic investors Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit Health, and Salesforce Ventures also joined. The round pushed the valuation to over $14 billion, more than tripling it from $4.5 billion just seven months earlier. CEO Deepak Pathak confirmed total funding now exceeds $2 billion.
Skild’s revenue grew from zero to approximately $30 million in just a few months in 2025 and is described as growing exponentially. The company is already deploying in security and facility inspection, last-mile delivery, warehouses, data centers, and factory assembly.
Key Investors: SoftBank, NVentures (Nvidia), Macquarie Capital, Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, Salesforce Ventures
3. NEURA Robotics
Total Funding: $1.48B | Latest Valuation: ~$4.6B | Latest Round: ~$1.2B Series C (March 26, 2026)
NEURA Robotics is Europe’s most funded humanoid robotics company. Founded by David Reger in Metzingen, Germany, the company builds cognitive robots for industrial and daily settings, combining AI, onboard sensors, and autonomous navigation.
In March 2026, NEURA raised approximately $1.2 billion (around €1 billion) in a Series C round backed by Tether Holdings, with Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim also joining as an investor. The round valued the company at around €4 billion. In April 2026, NEURA announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to scale its Neuraverse platform globally, with Amazon also exploring the use of NEURA robots in select fulfillment centers. NEURA and the Technical University of Munich also launched Europe’s largest scientific training centre for physical AI in March 2026.
Earlier, NEURA acquired ek Robotics, a 300-person industrial automation specialist with a warehouse logistics robot portfolio. It also has a partnership with Schaeffler to co-develop actuators for humanoid robot joints, with Schaeffler planning to integrate thousands of NEURA robots into its global production network by 2035.
Key Investors: Tether Holdings, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, Lingotto Investment Management, Hyundai, Schaeffler
4. Apptronik
Total Funding: ~$1B | Latest Valuation: ~$5.5B | Latest Round: $520M Series A extension (February 11, 2026)
Apptronik is an Austin, Texas-based robotics company building the Apollo humanoid robot. Apollo stands 1.7 meters tall, weighs 73 kilograms, uses a replaceable battery, and has a modular design that supports different configurations depending on the task.
In February 2026, Apptronik closed a $520 million extension of its Series A, bringing the total Series A to over $935 million and total funding to nearly $1 billion. The extension was led by B Capital, Google, and Mercedes-Benz, with new investors AT&T Ventures, John Deere, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Bloomberg reported the post-money valuation at over $5.5 billion, roughly three times the valuation at the initial Series A close in February 2025.
Apollo robots are already deployed in factories and warehouses with Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics, and Jabil. Google has designated Apollo as the exclusive hardware platform for its Gemini Robotics project. Apptronik is targeting commercial production in 2026 with $1 billion in projected demand from current commitments.
Key Investors: B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz, Capital Factory, AT&T Ventures, John Deere, Qatar Investment Authority, ARK Invest
5. Physical Intelligence (pi)
Total Funding: $1B+ | Current Valuation: $5.6B | New Round in Talks: ~$1B at $11B+ valuation
Physical Intelligence, known as pi, was founded in 2024 in San Francisco by former Google DeepMind researchers including CEO Karol Hausman and co-founder Sergey Levine. It does not build a robot body. It builds foundation models that can power any robot to perform a wide range of physical tasks.
Its Series B of $600 million was led by Alphabet’s CapitalG at a $5.6 billion valuation in November 2025, bringing total funding to over $1 billion. By March 2026, Bloomberg reported the company was in active talks to close a new $1 billion round that would push its valuation above $11 billion, effectively doubling it in four months.
Physical Intelligence’s models have shown the ability to fold laundry, peel vegetables, make coffee, and assemble boxes across different robot platforms. Its RECAP training approach, which combines reinforcement learning with corrections and autonomous experience, doubled task throughput in tests. The company’s pitch is hardware-agnostic AI: an Android-style operating system for robotics.
Key Investors: CapitalG (Alphabet), Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint
6. Agility Robotics
Total Funding: ~$180M (disclosed) | Robot: Digit | Deployment: Amazon, GXO Logistics
Agility Robotics makes the Digit humanoid robot and has moved over 100,000 totes in real warehouse operations with GXO Logistics and Amazon. The company completed a Series C in September 2025 and operates a 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility with capacity for 10,000 units per year.
Agility is one of the few companies in the space that can point to sustained, real-world commercial deployment at meaningful scale. Amazon has an active deployment running, not a pilot. That matters in a sector where most competitors are still showing demos or running small trials. Note that Agility is majority-owned by Amazon, which limits its independent funding disclosures.
Key Investors: WP Global Partners, SoftBank, Amazon
7. 1X Technologies
Total Funding: $130M+ | Robot: NEO | Stage: Early commercial
1X Technologies was founded in 2014 in Norway (originally as Halodi Robotics) and rebranded in 2022 with a pivot to home robotics. It has raised $130 million in total, including a $100 million Series B in January 2024 led by EQT Ventures with Samsung NEXT and others, and a $23.5 million Series A2 in 2023 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with Tiger Global.
The company opened a 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California in 2026, targeting 10,000 NEO robots in its first year and 100,000 units by end of 2027. Its entire first-year production capacity sold out within five days of pre-orders opening in October 2025. NEO is priced at $20,000 to buy or $499 per month on a subscription plan. 1X also signed a deal with EQT’s portfolio companies to deploy NEO in enterprise settings, bridging its consumer and commercial strategy.
In September 2025 it was reported that 1X was seeking to raise $1 billion at a $10B+ valuation, though no close has been confirmed publicly as of May 2026.
Key Investors: EQT Ventures, OpenAI Startup Fund, Tiger Global, Samsung NEXT
The Bigger Picture
The humanoid robotics market is moving faster than most people expected two years ago. A few things stand out from where the money is going.
The AI brain is as valuable as the robot body. Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, and Agility Robotics are all betting that the software layer is where the real value sits. Investors are writing $1 billion-plus checks into companies with no robot body at all.
Enterprise buyers are not waiting. Amazon, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, GXO Logistics, and John Deere are not just investing. They are deploying. That is a meaningful shift from 2024, when most corporate involvement was pilot programs and minority stakes.
Europe and China are closing the gap. NEURA Robotics’ $1.2 billion round signals Europe is serious. In China, Unitree and AgiBot are expected to account for nearly 80% of global humanoid robot shipments in 2026, with output projected to grow up to 94% year on year per TrendForce. The US has the largest headline valuations but no monopoly on commercialization.
The market is concentrating fast. The top 10 humanoid robotics companies have captured nearly 80% of all capital raised in the category since 2022. Companies without strong corporate partnerships, real deployment data, or a defensible software moat will find it much harder to raise in 2026 than in 2024.
Goldman Sachs projects the humanoid robotics market will reach $38 billion by 2035. At the current funding pace, the companies that will own that market are already becoming clear.