Humanoid robot startups 2026 funding ranking led by Figure AI
Dealroom says humanoid robotics startups have raised $8.6B in 2026, with Figure AI, NEURA and Physical Intelligence leading funding totals.
By Marcus Adeyemi · Startups Editor
· 3 min read
Humanoid robot startups 2026 funding has already reached $8.6 billion, 1.8 times the sector’s total for all of 2025, according to Dealroom. The capital is clustered at the top: Figure AI leads with $2.34 billion raised and a reported $39 billion valuation, followed by Germany’s NEURA Robotics at $1.84 billion and Physical Intelligence at $1.07 billion.
The race is moving beyond lab demos into early industrial deployments at companies including BMW, Amazon, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai. Revenue figures were not disclosed for the ranked companies, so funding, valuation, production claims and customer deployments are doing most of the signaling.
Which humanoid robot startups have raised the most money?
The 10 best-funded humanoid robotics companies are concentrated in the U.S., Europe and China, with funding totals ranging from billions of dollars to tens of millions.
- Figure AI: $2.34 billion raised
- NEURA Robotics: $1.84 billion
- Physical Intelligence: $1.07 billion
- Apptronik: $966 million
- Agility Robotics: $683 million
- AgiBot: $314 million
- Unitree Robotics: $265 million
- Humanoid: $252 million
- 1X Technologies: $140 million
- Boston Dynamics: $37 million
Figure AI, founded by Brett Adcock in 2022, closed a Series C of just over $1 billion in September 2025 led by Parkway Venture Capital, with Brookfield, Nvidia, Intel Capital and Salesforce participating. The company’s Figure 02 robot is a 168-centimetre biped with five-fingered hands, a 20-kilogram payload and its own Helix vision-language-action model. Figure says a January 2026 software update enabled full-body autonomy from visual input for an eight-hour factory shift, and its robots are already at BMW’s Spartanburg plant. The company also operates BotQ, a factory intended to produce 12,000 units annually, and employs about 500 people.
NEURA Robotics, based in Metzingen, Germany, closed a Series C worth up to $1.4 billion in June 2026, led by Tether with participation from Amazon, Nvidia and the European Investment Bank. The round valued the company at an estimated $7 billion. NEURA’s 4NE1 humanoid, co-designed with Studio F.A. Porsche, can lift up to 100 kilograms, according to the company, and runs with 42 degrees of freedom, sensor skin and Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T N1 model. NEURA also sells MiPA and LARA robots and says it plans to ship five million robots by 2030.
Physical Intelligence is the outlier because it is not primarily a robot manufacturer. The San Francisco company builds AI models for other companies’ machines and raised $600 million in November 2025 at a $5.6 billion valuation. It is reportedly discussing another $1 billion Series C at more than $11 billion, with Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital expected to participate. Its π0 and π0.5 models are designed to work across different robot platforms for tasks such as folding laundry and loading dishwashers.
Apptronik, a University of Texas spinout, has raised nearly $966 million and is valued around $5.3 billion. Its Apollo robot carries up to 25 kilograms, uses hot-swappable batteries and runs on Nvidia’s GR00T AI. The company says Apollo is being used at Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics and Jabil in partnership with Google DeepMind.
Agility Robotics is taking the public-market route through a planned merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The SPAC transaction values Agility at about $2.5 billion and is expected to bring in more than $620 million. Its Digit robots have worked in Amazon fulfillment centers and GXO Logistics sites, with more than 65,000 live operating hours reported.
China’s AgiBot and Unitree show the lower-cost and higher-volume side of the market. AgiBot says it shipped more than 10,000 units by March 2026, while Unitree filed in March 2026 for a Shanghai Stock Exchange IPO seeking about $610 million. London-based Humanoid, Norway’s 1X Technologies and Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics round out the list, underscoring that the category is now split between venture-backed startups, industrial suppliers and strategic corporate owners.
This story draws on original reporting from TechFundingNews.
