Walden Secures $300M Seed Round
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-07-18
Walden Robotics announced a **$300 million seed funding round**, bringing its valuation to **$1.1 billion**. The round featured a heavyweight lineup of investors including Toyota, NVIDIA, Boeing, CoreWeave, and Samsung Ventures, spanning sectors like automotive, chips, aviation, cloud computing, and logistics. The article emphasizes Walden's path to commercialization over the sheer funding amount. Spun out of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), the team leverages deep expertise in robot control, reinforcement learning, Diffusion Policy, and Large Behavior Models. The company's robots **entered Toyota's North American factories in February of this year**, transitioning from pilot to full deployment in under two months to handle tasks like loading, unloading, and sorting. The author argues that these industrial investments are betting on **Physical AI** rather than just a single robot entity. In the future, robots will function like factory employees who are "useful from day one and continuously improve," learning on the job to deliver consistent value on the production line.
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