Sitemap - 2026 - Robots & Startups

Who are the top robotics and physical AI investors?

Weapons of Mass Distraction Are Amongst Us

After SpaceX, what now for all the robot IPOs?

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - May 2026

Verity wins IERA Award at ICRA 2026 with Open Nav 2 runner up

The rationality of irrational robotics investments

AI Expert Doesn't Worry About a Robot Takeover

RLDX-1 beats Pi 0.5 and Groot 1.6 on SOTA dexterity benchmarks

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - April 2026

Robot familiars, is AI or UI the next frontier?

Big tech FOMO in robotics leads to acquihire investments

Shenzhen loves building robots, not just dancing with them.

Hardware is hard... to churn away from. Suck on that, software and AI!

The Goldilocks Zone for Robots: hard tech investor advice

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - March 2026

Sometimes the best humanoid is a superhumanoid

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - February 2026

The known unknowns of 'up and to the right'

Here be dragons: physical AI, world models and robot brains

Khameleon lands preseed, Scythe acquired, Sunday joins unicorns, Rhoda, Mind Robotics and Atom out of stealth, LG invests in Dexmate

Robotics leaders address US government, UC Davis opens research facility on raptors and robots

Tessa Lau on being a robotics founder plus Joanne Pransky scholarship winners

SF Bay Area Robotics Events in March and April

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - January 2026

Hard Tech Venture Summit at SRI, plus many other robotics events coming up

🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - December 2025

Apptronik closes $935 Million Series A, CB Insights cites robotics as major AI driver

Humanoid's platform, URDF kitchen, Nvidia's Dream Zero and Intrinsic's AI for Industry

Stacking up the exponentials in robotics

Pi wins humanoid olympics then Figure drops new Helix 02 brain in challenge

Learnings from 2025 in robots and startups

Unitree launches R1 humanoid at Circuit Launch, SVR robotics startups host investor event in SF.

Forget robots, make money with models instead

2026: Predictions, Competitions and CES