#7
★ Gold
German humanoid robot startup Neura Robotics is reportedly raising approximately €1 billion with cryptocurrency firm Tether at a valuation near €4 billion. The mega-round would be among the largest ever for a European robotics company. Neura's 4NE1 cognitive humanoid platform targets large-scale industrial deployment, with Schaeffler planning to integrate thousands of units by 2035. The Tether backing represents an unusual funding source—a stablecoin issuer becoming a patient capital provider for hardware-intensive robotics.
#8
★ Gold
Mind Robotics announced a $500M Series A round led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz to build and deploy AI-enabled robotic systems at industrial scale. The funding supports expansion of manufacturing and logistics automation across enterprise environments, representing one of the largest early-stage robotics investments in history.
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★ Silver
Cologne-based Eternal.ag, founded by former Honest AgTech co-founder Renji John, closed an €8M seed round to commercialize autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouses. The company's core innovation is simulation-led development using NVIDIA Isaac Sim to train robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying in real facilities. The approach targets the acute labor shortage in agricultural harvesting—one of the hardest remaining manipulation challenges in robotics.