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Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York (with team members in Paris and Montreal), Norbert Health was started by Alexandre Winter, a computer-vision PhD who previously co-founded Placemeter (acquired by Netgear/Arlo in 2016). It builds a physical AI control system that gives partner robotic hardware clinical capabilities — contactless vital-sign sensing, clinical protocol execution, patient assessments and automated EHR documentation — live in skilled nursing facilities since August 2025.

Series A · $19M · 2026-09

Acumino, founded in 2021, develops AcuBrain, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform that teaches robots dexterous bimanual manipulation and transfers skills across robot platforms. It has run deployment trials with a major German automaker and a large Japanese marine-engine maker, and in 2026 joined Google DeepMind's first European robotics accelerator.

$4M

Founded in 2024 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Ultra is a Y Combinator-backed robots-as-a-service company. It leases its multi-purpose OP1 robot on a monthly basis to third-party logistics and e-commerce fulfillment warehouses, where it slots into existing workstations to handle packing, sorting, kitting and returns with no integration work. Its robots run on AI from partner Physical Intelligence; Ultra handles hardware integration and on-site deployment and feeds real warehouse data back to support model training.

Series A · $62M · 2026-10

Gewu Tongzhi is a Hangzhou-based embodied-brain and world-model company founded in 2026 by Cai Jia, former head of Huawei's world-model foundation model. It builds a 'physics-inverse world model + PSI physical self-evolution' stack from tactile-visual multimodal data to give robots dexterous manipulation intelligence, and is running joint PoCs with customers in textiles, optical modules and auto parts.

Angel · 2026-10

TARS, founded in 2025 in Shanghai, develops embodied intelligence systems centered on physical-world AI and general-purpose robotics technology.

Series A · $288M · 2026-04 · Valuation $1.8B

Shanghai Yincheng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2023 and based in the Qingpu district of Shanghai, builds embodied-AI picking robots for logistics. The company develops NECESSI, its own end-to-end embodied intelligence model, paired with a general-purpose picking robot that autonomously recognises, grasps and places mixed items, replacing manual induction and sortation work at express-delivery transfer centres and extending into pharmacy, retail and elderly-care settings. Reported customers include SF Express, STO Express, JD.com, China Post, Kejie and the overseas logistics operator GOFO. Founder Qunyan Pu studied computer science at Fudan University, holds a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and previously worked on AI productisation at Google and built the AI platform team at autonomous-driving company Nuro from scratch.

Series A · 2026-09

Monumental is a construction robotics company founded in Amsterdam in 2020 that develops automated bricklaying robots.

Series B · $57M · 2026-07

Humanoid , a two-year-old London startup that builds wheeled and bipedal humanoid robots that move objects and support logistics tasks in factories, raised a $152 million Series A round at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. The deal was led by Prime Movers Lab , with Schaeffler , Bosch , Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital , and Aglaé Ventures also anteing up. SiliconANGLE has more here .

Series A · $152M · 2026-07

Rocsys, founded in 2019 in the Netherlands, uses soft robotics, AI-based computer vision, and data-driven services to transform EV chargers into automated systems.

Series A · $56M · 2023-07

Botsync, founded in 2017 in Singapore, develops autonomous mobile robots to help manufacturers and warehouses manage their operations.

Series A · $5M · 2024-06

Hivebotics is an autonomous robotics company spun out of the National University of Singapore, focused on commercial facilities cleaning. Its flagship product, Abluo, is a mobile robot with an articulated arm that autonomously cleans entire commercial restrooms — toilets, urinals, sinks and floors — using high-pressure steam, targeted chemical jets, vacuum extraction and blow-drying, coordinated by its HiveIntelligence (HiveOS) software for job planning and real-time monitoring. It has logged nearly 10,000 operating hours across more than 20 sites in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, including hospitals, airport terminals and shopping malls.

Series A · 2026-09

Bluewhite was founded in 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company develops automation robotics that can be retrofitted onto any tractor to enable autonomous operation. Competitors include Farm-ng, Growmark, Aigen, Monarch, and Iron Ox, all developing their own agricultural robots, as well as Alphabet's Mineral.ai, which collects and analyzes field data.

Series C · $39M · 2024-01