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- RobCo has raised $100 million in a Series C financing to advance its Physical AI roadmap, expand enterprise deployments, and deepen its presence in the U.S. manufacturing market.
- The round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif, and The Friedkin Group.
- The funding will support U.S. scaling and continued development of its vertically integrated robotics platform, which combines proprietary hardware with Physical AI software and is delivered through a robotics-as-a-service model across industrial use cases such as machine tending, palletizing, dispensing, and welding.
German industrial robotics maker RobCo announced it has raised $100 million in a Series C financing to accelerate its physical AI roadmap, expand enterprise deployments, and deepen its presence in the U.S. manufacturing market.
The round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif, and The Friedkin Group.
“With $100 million of additional funding, we will become the dominant AI robotics company for manufacturing in the U.S. and Europe” Roman Hölzl, CEO and Founder of RobCo, said in the announcement. “This will allow us to execute on our purpose of automating the ordinary, so humans can do the extraordinary.”
According to RobCo, the new capital will be used to scale U.S. enterprise deployments while continuing development of its autonomy stack across use cases such as machine tending, palletizing, dispensing, and welding. The company said it will continue to deliver its systems through a robotics-as-a-service model aimed at reducing operational risk for manufacturers.
Founded in 2020 in Munich, RobCo develops a vertically integrated robotics platform that combines proprietary hardware with Physical AI software. The company said its systems integrate perception, motion planning, and self-learning capabilities to enable increasingly autonomous robot operation in live production environments, reducing the need for manual programming and system reconfiguration.
RobCo said its robots acquire task-specific skills through demonstration and iterative learning, allowing faster deployment and adaptation to variable industrial processes. The company positions the platform as a single operational layer for customers, spanning setup, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
The funding follows RobCo’s expansion into the U.S. in 2025, with operations now based in San Francisco and Austin. RobCo said the U.S. has become a priority market as manufacturers increase automation investment amid labor constraints, reshoring efforts, and growing operational complexity.
RobCo said its systems are deployed across a range of industrial customers, including large manufacturers such as BMW, as well as companies including DynaEnergetics, Fabricated Extrusion Company, T-Systems, and Rosenberger.
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