RoboForce raises $52M
RoboForce closed a $52 million round to build a general‑purpose 'physical AI' robot foundation model aimed at solar, mining, manufacturing, and logistics deployments. The raise underscores investor appetite for single‑architecture robot brains that can scale across industries. (roboticsandautomationnews.com)
The round was led by YZi Labs — described in filings as a $10 billion fund — and included participation from Jerry Yang, Nobel laureate Myron Scholes, investor Gary Rieschel, and Carnegie Mellon University, bringing RoboForce’s total capital raised to $67 million. (business.decaturdailydemocrat.com) RoboForce first unveiled its Titan industrial robot on June 24, 2025 and at that time announced an earlier financing that brought total capital to $15 million. (roboforce.ai) Titan is specified as an industrial platform with an 8‑hour runtime and a 40 kg dual‑arm payload, and the company positions the hardware to achieve millimeter‑level manipulation precision when combined with its stack. (prnewswire.com) The company names its 3D robot model RF‑Net and says RF‑Net is trained via a closed‑loop data flywheel that combines high‑fidelity simulation, synthetic data generation, and real‑world fleet telemetry. (roboforce.ai) RoboForce has presented its work in collaboration with NVIDIA and was highlighted by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang during a GTC keynote, pointing to GPU‑accelerated simulation and inference as part of the company’s development path. (prnewswire.com) The March 16, 2026 funding announcement framed the new capital as specifically intended to accelerate manufacturing readiness and commercial rollout as the company transitions from R&D to scaled deployments. (business.decaturdailydemocrat.com) RoboForce’s public materials and press coverage list Leo Ma as founder and CEO and identify the company as a Silicon Valley‑area robotics startup that has been actively fundraising since 2025. (roboforce.ai)
