Hadrian raised $1.37B at a $7.87B valuation to scale AI-run factories making parts for rockets, subs, and jets — its price tag quintupled since January.
Unitree priced its Shanghai IPO at $9.04 billion — the first public humanoid robot maker, and the only one turning a profit while rivals like Figure AI sit at $39B with no revenue.
Enigma exited stealth with a $71 million seed - one of robotics' largest first checks - on a contrarian bet: the bottleneck isn't smarter robots, it's making them usable.
China's Psibot just hit a $1.48 billion valuation with automaker Chery leading the round — and it's selling the robot brain, not the robot.
Travis Kalanick's new company Atoms just raised $1.7 billion in an a16z-led round for industrial AI — and Uber, the company that fired him in 2017, is one of the backers.
London's Humanoid raised a $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation to become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robot unicorn — two years old, and not a single robot shipped.
Walden Robotics left stealth with a $300M seed at a $1.1B valuation — and its wheeled robots are already working in a Toyota factory.
Unitree, LimX and Agility are racing to the public markets at the same moment. Here's why the timing is the whole story.
