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RoboForce Raises $52M in Funding Round to Develop and Commercialize AI-Powered Robots

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  • RoboForce raised $52 million in an oversubscribed round led by YZi Labs, bringing total funding to $67 million to accelerate development and commercialization of its physical AI-powered industrial robots.
  • The company is shifting from R&D to scaled deployments, focusing on robot foundation models, manufacturing readiness and converting pilot programs into production use across sectors such as energy, logistics and manufacturing.
  • RoboForce is building its platform in collaboration with NVIDIA, using simulation, synthetic data and cloud-to-edge orchestration to create a continuous data flywheel aimed at improving performance and scaling real-world deployments.

PRESS RELEASE — RoboForce, a pioneer in Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor, announced it has secured a $52 million oversubscribed funding round, bringing the total raised to $67 million. The round was led by YZi Labs (a $10 billion fund) with participation from Jerry Yang (co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.), who join existing investors Myron Scholes (Nobel Laureate economist), Gary Rieschel (Founding Partner of Qiming Ventures), Carnegie Mellon University, and beyond. The new capital will accelerate the company’s next-generation robot foundation model, scale general-purpose Physical AI robots, and drive manufacturing readiness for commercial deployment.

Industrial operators are facing a persistent and growing gap: essential work that is physically demanding, repetitive, and safety-critical still depends on increasingly scarce human labor, slowing project timelines and increasing safety risk. RoboForce’s solution is designed to take on the high-risk, tedious work across demanding industrial environments such as utility-scale solar, data centers, mining, shipping, manufacturing, and logistics.

“Robo-Labor is essential for work that is dull, dirty, and dangerous,” said Leo Ma, Founder & CEO of RoboForce. “This problem centers on human workers’ availability, cost, and safety, and its impact spans across most critical industrial sectors. Our mission is to elevate humans into safer, higher value roles while robots take on the most demanding industrial tasks.”

The capital raise strengthens RoboForce’s execution across three core pillars, accelerating the expansion of its Physical AI platform and Robo-Labor deployments:

  • Powering its robot foundation model and AI data flywheel, integrating real-world fleet data and high-fidelity simulation to build a closed-loop system that compounds intelligence across deployments.
  • Scaling manufacturing and advancing the Physical AI robot platform, ramping production and strengthening global supply chain operations to ensure reliable performance in harsh, dynamic industrial environments.
  • Driving commercialization and revenue growth, moving active pilot programs toward production deployments and establishing recurring revenue across critical industrial sectors.

RoboForce is building an advanced physical AI foundation model and robotics stack in collaboration with NVIDIA, leveraging NVIDIA’s end-to-end computing and simulation technologies as its AI backbone. Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor at the edge, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Isaac Lab open frameworks for simulation and robot learning, NVIDIA Cosmos for synthetic data generation, and NVIDIA OSMO for cloud-to-edge orchestration, RoboForce is creating a continuous data flywheel that accelerates policy learning and enables reliable, scalable deployment in complex industrial environments.

Greg Bock
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