Investments

VisionNav’s AGVs include forklifts, indoor and outdoor autonomous tractors and BrightEye, its smart AGV system.

Unitree plans to use the funding to increase construction on its mass production lines and strengthen its existing production lines.

Octopus Ventures, a European venture firm that invests in early-stage companies, led Touchlab’s funding round.

DCVC and Playground Global led the funding round, which also included participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF). 

The investment strengthens the existing public facility cleaning and disinfection business developed by the two companies.

Glacier’s robots are able to sort over 30 different item types, and are 60% less expensive than other sortation robots. 

Rapyuta offers a picking assistant AMR that picks and carries orders between worders to reduce the amount of time workers spend walking.

RobotCT’s UGO exoskeleton robot helps patients who experience motor dysfunction in the lower body learn how to walk.

Diligent plans to use the round of funding to optimize supply chain and design teams for faster deployments of Moxi.

Beewise’s robotics beehive can prevent bees from dying while also increasing honey yields for beekeepers.

The Exosystem autonomy kit can be rented as standalone units to be installed onto an existing fleet or customers can lease upgraded excavators.

The Mark I by Rugged Robotics marks architectural and engineering designs directly onto concrete floors.

TreeSwift’s drones can collect individual tree metrics with cameras, LiDAR sensors and advanced machine learning algorithms.

The company is deploying industrial robot arms using vision and artificial intelligence to clean skyscraper windows.

Bear Robotics’ flagship product, Servi, is an autonomous mobile robot that can deliver drinks and food and aid in bussing tables.

Zeta Surgical plans to use the seed funding to finish developing Zeta, its neurosurgical navigation platform.

The company was one of the first commercial mobile robots to use the Nvidia Jetson product, and Serve works closely with the Nvidia product team to improve the capabilities of the solution.

Autobrains is a Tel Aviv-based company looking to solve the 1% margin of error in autonomous driving with its unique technology.

Gecko Robotics’ technology is made for the power generation, oil and gas, heavy manufacturing and defense industries.

While companies are developing robots for specific purposes, Sanctuary is creating a general-purpose robot with human-like intelligence.

Along with the funding, Kiwibot announced an expansion deal with Sodexo to expand its fleet from 200 robots to 1,200 robots.

The company plans to use the financing to further develop its lab automation platform Automata Labs for use in and outside of the UK.