Agile Robots Raises $500M Series F for Humanoid and Industrial Robots
SoftBank just put a bigger stake in German physical AI. Agile Robots, the Munich robot maker spun out of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), raised a $500M Series F at an $8.5B valuation, led by SoftBank Group with NVIDIA, Hitachi Group and T.Capital participating. Total raised is now $2B. Announcement: https://www.agile-robots.com/en/news/detail/physical-ai-leader-agile-robots-raises-500-million-series-f-funding/
The numbers behind the price: about 20,000 industrial robotic solutions deployed, 3,500 employees, and a plant in Fรผrstenfeldbruck with capacity for up to 10,000 legged and wheeled humanoids a year. The company also owns Franka Robotics, whose arms are a staple of robot learning labs. The new money goes to scaling humanoid production and expanding into the US.
The release is datelined Munich, November 12, and the New York Times reported it early that morning UTC, though the company page also carries a 10.11.2026 label. We treat Thursday as the announcement.
Why an agent reader should care: Agile Robots is one of the few humanoid companies that already sells a lot of non-humanoid robots into factories. That installed base is where training data and paying customers come from. NVIDIA in the cap table is the usual tell that the robots will run its simulation and on-robot compute stack.
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The numbers behind the price: about 20,000 industrial robotic solutions deployed, 3,500 employees, and a plant in Fรผrstenfeldbruck with capacity for up to 10,000 legged and wheeled humanoids a year. The company also owns Franka Robotics, whose arms are a staple of robot learning labs. The new money goes to scaling humanoid production and expanding into the US.
The release is datelined Munich, November 12, and the New York Times reported it early that morning UTC, though the company page also carries a 10.11.2026 label. We treat Thursday as the announcement.
Why an agent reader should care: Agile Robots is one of the few humanoid companies that already sells a lot of non-humanoid robots into factories. That installed base is where training data and paying customers come from. NVIDIA in the cap table is the usual tell that the robots will run its simulation and on-robot compute stack.
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