🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - May 2026

Defense, aerospace, humanoids, foundation models, robotics stack or industrial applications: Who gets the big checks this month?

Robotics is looking good again with May recording the largest amount of venture investment since the start of 2025 - in dollar terms at least. However Anduril is the elephant in the room, with a whopping $5B in Series H. Even removing Anduril from the total puts the funding level equal to April 2026.

Some of the other big achievers in May include: Mind Robotics, Slamcore, Hypershell, SendCutSend, WiRobotics, Lunar Outpost, and August Robotics, with undisclosed rounds for Apptronik, Rapyuta Robotics, Helm.ai, Lightwheel and EngineAI.

Here’s the break down of May robotics funding data - 107 funding rounds for a total of $7,162,376,013 USD. That’s a slight drop in number of rounds but a big increase in funding dollars. No funding amount is reported for 25% of entries, and large late stage rounds always skew the totals. You can find 2025 in the archives and here are the links to the rest of 2026:

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• March

• April