RobCo Inc., a man-made intelligence-driven robotics company, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to advance its automation roadmap and enterprise presence in markets inside the USA.
Lightspeed Enterprise Partners and Lingotto Innovation co-led the round, alongside Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif and The Friedkin Group.
“With $100 million of additional funding, we are going to turn out to be the dominant AI robotics company for manufacturing within the U.S. and Europe,” said founder and Chief Executive Roman Hölzl. “This can allow us to execute on our purpose of automating the unusual, so humans can do the extraordinary.”
RobCo provides the hardware and software for what’s increasingly often known as physical AI, a branch of artificial intelligence that mixes AI with machines. It enables robotics and autonomous systems to perceive, understand and interact with the physical world in real time.
Unlike software-only AI, which only produces text, images, audio and the like, it combines AI models with sensors and actuators to maneuver beyond digital-only tasks and perform “embodied” actions, reminiscent of moving robot arms, cars, opening doors and windows, or otherwise manipulating the environment.
Founded in 2020 in Munich, the corporate expanded into the U.S. in 2025 and now has offices in San Francisco and Austin. Hölzl said the U.S. is a priority for the corporate and a serious growth market as manufacturers proceed to modernize.
The corporate’s robotics and software have been deployed across a spread of business environments, including large global manufacturers, reminiscent of automotive and engineering, reminiscent of BMW AG and Rosenberger Group.
RobCo’s robots are developed from day one to accumulate task-specific skills through demonstration and self-learning quite than manual programming. This permits them for faster deployment, rapid iteration and makes them adaptable to a mess of business situations and variable processes. The corporate describes this as “acting as a single pane of glass” for purchasers in its own parlance.
Robots are delivered through a recurring robots-as-a-service model, supporting industries to automate a wide selection of business workflows, including machine tending, palletizing, allotting and welding.
“RobCo has what it takes to construct a world champion: systems that already deliver in industrial environments today and a platform grounded in Physical AI that may scale across use cases and geographies,” said Alexander Schmitt, a partner at Lightspeed.
Photo: RobCo
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