Robotics roundup: Agility IPOs with $465M, Bedrock raises $600M Series C
DJiafei · x · 2026-11-08
Weekly robotics industry roundup:
Funding & capital
- Agility Robotics closed its Churchill Capital XI merger and started trading on Nasdaq as AGLT on Nov 5, raising $465M gross
- Bedrock Robotics raised a $600M Series C for autonomous excavators and construction machines
- Tutor Intelligence raised a $75M Series B led by a16z; its Sonny/Cassie robots rent by the hour or by the pick
- Corridian raised a $38M seed for ultra-large autonomous cargo underwater vehicles
- Foundry Robotics raised a $100M Series A for AI-powered assembly factories; Machenta exited stealth with $40M — a simulation-only trained model that learns new tasks from one demo; Dream Labs raised a $90M seed for a camera-feed + plain-English API
Deployment
- Xiaomi put its full-size humanoid on an 8-hour shift sorting center console side covers at its EV factory
- Agility's Digit heads to two more GXO sites in early 2027
Platforms & models
- RoboColosseum launched: 11,398 real-world evals across 124 sites in 41 days, all runs published including failures
- Liber-0: pretrained on 2.2M+ hours of human experience, reporting 36% zero-shot success across 600 trials on 60 tasks
- LeRobot shipped v0.7
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