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Welcome back to Robotics Roundup, a look back at the month’s most important VC investments for the robotics industry. Anduril’s huge Series F was the headliner in August, with notable deals in medical tech and logistics. Anduril raised $1.5B in Series F funding co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital, with participation from new investors Fidelity Management & Research Company, Counterpoint Global, and Baillie Gifford, and existing investors including Altimeter and Frankli

Welcome back to Robotics Roundup, a look at the month’s most important VC deals in the robotics industry. In July we saw Alphabet make a massive new investment in autonomous taxis via its Waymo subsidiary, a big round for robotics “brain” company Skild AI, and heavy investment in the logistics and warehousing verticals. The Deals Waymo raised $5B from its parent company, Alphabet. The self-driving car subsidiary last raised funding in 2021, and this new round follows news th

A&K Robotics has secured $8 million in Series A funding to scale the deployment of its autonomous passenger pods, aiming to solve a growing accessibility crisis in global aviation. The investment, led by BDC Capital and Vantage Futures, will accelerate the rollout of Cruz, a self-driving robot designed to navigate high-traffic airport terminals and provide independent mobility for the millions of travelers facing physical limitations. Navigating airports can be a stressful ex

SS Innovations International Inc. this week unveiled four in-development surgical robotic systems at its Global Multi-Specialty Robotic Surgery Conference in New Delhi, India. These new systems include the SSi Vimana Aero Drone System, the SSi Avtara Humanoid Surgical Platform, the SSi Operion Mobile Operating Room, and new single-arm robotic endoscopy and ultrasound assist carts. “Innovation is in our DNA. Beyond continuously improving our advanced, cost-effective SSi Mantra

Accenture, together with Vodafone Procure & Connect and SAP, is piloting humanoid robotics in warehouse environments. The companies hope to demonstrate how physical AI can enhance operational efficiency, improve safety, and enable new approaches to workforce and business model design. “Trained in digital twins and powered by physical AI, humanoid robots can reduce worker injuries and other warehouse safety incidents, lower overtime costs, and reduce dependency on temporary la

1. Large Model Chauvinism Will Get Someone Hurt There’s this belief going around that AI models are getting so good that hardware can afford to be dumb. Sensors? The model will figure it out from vision. Safety limits? The policy will learn to avoid them. I call this Large Model Chauvinism. At our startup, it shaped decisions constantly. And to be fair, it wasn’t one person’s blind spot — most of us bought into it to some degree. The AI was genuinely impressive, and it was ea