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🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - July 2025
Some large rounds push the July investment total to almost twice the amount of May or June, although total number of funding events stays the same.
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AI isn't the new electricity. Electricity is.
Plus Henry Evans profiled on CBS for robotics activism and songwriting
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We wanted flying cars. Now we've got a white whale to chase.
The questions we learn as we try to build intelligence are the real answers
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How To Hire Women (in robotics or any deep tech field)
Throw out all the assumptions about why there's a lack of women in the STEM workforce and fix these four core problems.
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The algebra of robotics automation
3/4 scientists looking to leave the United States according to recent poll in Nature
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Rockets and Robotaxis and Robots! Oh My!
Big people moves at three leading robotics companies. Also, fail fast is not the motto in China.
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July 2025

Deeper dive into Optimus and China/US policy for robotics and humanoids
Plus rare Chinese dissent on the use of humanoids for warfare
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Another affordable humanoid robot hits the streets
Bonsai Robotics acquires farm-ng, bringing intelligent autonomy to modular EV agmachinery
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Reindustrializing America with robots
Project Nanda and Agentic AI
What to watch out for in your next funding round.
And China's Industrial Policy - how it shapes supply chain and robotics manufacturing
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Hugging Face release affordable Reachy Mini for robot/AI developers
Is this the open source robot we need for collecting data on humans?
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Do you invest in robotics? Don't miss our next Robotics Investment Forum!
The Robotics Data Debate, Gemini Robotics, RSS 2025 papers and Humanoids
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