Minerva Humanoids is a robotics company focused on building humanoid robots for hazardous jobs in onshore and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as public safety. Their flagship product, Roger, is a semi-autonomous robot designed to enable specialists to perform their jobs safely from a distance. Minerva aims to reduce the physical risks faced by workers in dangerous environments by allowing robots to handle the dangerous tasks. The company is founded on the principle of enhancing human capabilities while prioritizing safety.

Robotics Public-Safety Long Journey Ventures Credo Ventures Mvp Ventures Kaya+12 more

3 Oct

Cool Company Raises · $700.0M

FieldAI raises a $700.0M round

FieldAI is a physical AI and robotic autonomy company based in Irvine, CA. It specializes in developing embodied AI software that enhances autonomous robot operations in real-world environments. The company's Field Foundation Models allow robots to navigate dynamic and unpredictable conditions without the need for maps or GPS. FieldAI is focused on global growth and product development in locomotion and manipulation.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning $100M+Robotics

23 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Pendulum Robotics launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Quick-turn, purpose-built motors & actuators for all

Hard-Tech Robotics Drones YC Manufacturing Electronics+1 more

19 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Faraday launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Industrial aOS between humans, agents, and robots

Artificial-Intelligence Robotics B2B YC Manufacturing Enterprise-Software+1 more

10 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $100.0M

Maven Robotics raises a $100.0M Series A round

Maven Robotics designs, builds, and deploys intelligent robotics for logistics and manufacturing. They created the world's first general-purpose robotics system for industrial work, integrating hardware, software, and AI across all layers. Their robots are designed for complex physical environments and rigorous commercial standards, focusing on industrial-grade reliability and scalability.

Manufacturing Software Artificial-Intelligence Xtx Ventures Vine Ventures Local Globe+4 more

9 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

SuperRadiant launches at YC (Fall 2026)

SuperRadiant builds Embodied Scientific Intelligence: general-purpose robotic experimentalists that observe, form hypotheses and run experiments in the physical world. The system automates the full experimental loop while staying flexible enough for real discovery work, adapting to changing protocols and new instruments. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Cooper Niu, Benedict Quartey and Owen Tower, with a team drawn from Brown, NASA JPL, Fermilab and CERN. Y Combinator Fall 2026.

Robotics Energy Advanced-Materials YC AI Biotechnology+1 more

8 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $32.0M

Antioch raises a $32.0M Series A round

Antioch moves robotics development and validation out of hardware-in-the-loop rigs and into high-fidelity simulation, calibrating the simulator to a customer's own hardware and running evaluations at cloud scale. It integrates natively with existing CI/CD workflows, bringing test-driven development to autonomy. The $32M Series A was led by Greylock, with A* Capital, Category Ventures, BoxGroup and Icehouse Ventures, plus angels including Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar; total raised is $44.75M.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Robotics $10M+

5 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Dreamscale Labs launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Dreamscale Labs is building the fastest cloud inference platform for robotics. As complex physical AI models become too large to fit on expensive on-robot GPUs, Dreamscale lets robotics teams offload inference to the cloud and serves it back with real-time latency — so far hitting 40-50% lower latency than existing neoclouds. Its first product is Dropbear. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Eric Ren, Kevin Lin, Antoine Nguyen and Chris Yoo.

Artificial-Intelligence Robotics Infrastructure YC Industrials

2 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $165.0M

Lyte raises a $165.0M Series C round

Lyte is an end-to-end integrated perception company for robotics and Physical AI, focused on enabling machines to see, understand, and operate safely in the physical world. Founded by experts behind Apple Face ID and Microsoft Kinect, it offers a unified sensing platform designed to integrate advanced sensing technologies for various robotic applications. Their flagship product, LyteVision, combines 4D sensing and motion awareness into a single framework for autonomous machines. The company aims to simplify robotics by eliminating the challenges of assembling perception systems from multiple vendors.

Information-Technology Software Artificial-Intelligence Maverick Silicon $100M+Robotics

28 Aug

Interesting · pollen-robotics.com

Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics

Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and a grasping beak. Playable out of the box, and its open-source stack lets you train new behaviours in simulation and run them on the robot. Pre-order at $399.

Robotics

12 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

DeepReach Inc. launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Real-world data network for robots & world models

Artificial-Intelligence Hardware Machine-Learning YC Robotics Computer-Vision+1 more

11 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Moving Atoms launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Virtual Reality for Robots (World Models)

Artificial-Intelligence Robotics Virtual-Reality YC Industrials

10 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $1.4B

Skild AI raises a $1.4B Series C round

Skild AI is an AI robotics company focused on building a scalable foundation model for robotics. They are breaking the data barrier in robotics by training their model on a significant amount of data points. Their goal is to enable the use of low-cost robots across a broad range of industries and applications, addressing labor shortages and potentially dangerous tasks.

Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning Robotics Salesforce Ventures Schneider Electric Lg+7 more

9 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Pacific launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Micro data centers for the harshest places on Earth and in space.

Fintech Robotics Space-Exploration YC Manufacturing AI+1 more

6 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Neuromorphic launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Building embodiment agnostic robot brains.

Artificial-Intelligence Hard-Tech Robotics YC B2B Biotech+1 more

30 Jul

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Lambda Robotics launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Robotics for AI Infrastructure

Robotics Infrastructure AI YC Industrials

29 Jul

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

OpenVector launches at YC (Summer 2026)

AI that turns any camera into an active operator with real-time vision

Robotics Computer-Vision Infrastructure YC Industrial B2B

22 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $1.7B

Atoms raises a $1.7B round

Atoms is Travis Kalanick's industrial automation and robotics company, built out of his CloudKitchens holding company (rebranded Atoms in 2026) and the acquisition of Anthony Levandowski's automation firm Pronto. It builds physical automation for food, mining, and transport — software-controlled robotics to digitize and automate heavy industry. The $1.7B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board.

Robotics Artificial-Intelligence Manufacturing Andreessen Horowitz Bain Capital Fifth Wall+3 more

21 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $32.4M

Gritt raises a $32.4M Series A round

Gritt is building an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to accelerate the world's infrastructure buildout. The company aims to enhance infrastructure projects through innovative technology. Their solutions include robotic arms designed to integrate with existing systems.

Artificial-Intelligence Robotics Active Impact Investments Climactic Congruent Ventures First Round Capital+4 more

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