Robotics Bezos's Prometheus raises $12 billion to automate engineers
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an 'artificial general engineer' — pointing physical AI at high-end engineering work, not the factory floor.
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Robotics Neura Robotics raises $1.4B to mass-produce humanoids
German firm Neura Robotics closed a record Series C of up to $1.4 billion on June 10, targeting 5 million robots by 2030 — the largest round ever for a full-stack robotics company.
Robotics Generalist Raises $400M to Build Robot Brains, Not Robots
Generalist AI announced a $400M round led by Radical Ventures on June 4, pushing total funding past half a billion to scale GEN-1, its hardware-agnostic robot foundation model.
Robotics RLWRLD, AP Wire May 14: A 9-Year Lotte Hotel F&B Veteran Wears Three Body Cameras — Head, Chest, Hands — to Fold Banquet Napkins So a Robot Can Replace Him By 2028, Same Recording Pipeline Now Running at CJ Logistics Warehouses and Lawson Convenience Stores, On a Korean Government $33M 「Master Technician Database」 Backbone
David Park has folded napkins at Lotte Hotel Seoul for nine years. Once a month now, RLWRLD straps body cameras to his head, chest, and hands, records finger angles and force, and feeds the data into the AI brain of the humanoid that's supposed to replace him by 2028. The same data pipeline runs at CJ Logistics warehouses and Lawson stores in Japan. The Korean government is bankrolling a $33M parallel database of 「master technicians.」
Robotics Nyobolt's $1B Unicorn Round: Symbotic Led the May 6 Series C Because Battery Charge Time Just Became the Real TAM Constraint for Warehouse Robots and Humanoids
Cambridge spinout Nyobolt closed a $60M Series C at a $1B valuation on May 6, led by Symbotic. The numbers underneath — 5× revenue YoY, 0–80% in under 5 minutes, 20,000 cycles — say the bottleneck for physical-AI fleets just shifted from compute to power, and the warehouse-robotics buyers know it first.
Robotics 60 Totes an Hour, 8-Hour Shifts, 90% Success: Siemens Just Let a UK Humanoid Run Its Factory Logistics
A wheeled humanoid built by UK startup Humanoid and powered by Nvidia's physical-AI stack just did tote-handling at Siemens' Erlangen electronics plant — 60 moves per hour, over 8 hours uninterrupted, 90%+ pick-and-place success.