RobCo raises $100M to scale autonomous industrial robotics platform

Industrial automation and physical-AI driven robotics company RobCo announced it has raised $100 million in Series C funding.

The company said it plans to use the funding to advance RobCo’s physical AI roadmap, expand enterprise deployments and deepen the company’s presence in the U.S. market. RobCo expanded into the United States in 2025 and now operates in San Francisco and Austin.

RobCo said that the Series C is co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, alongside Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif and The Friedkin Group.

Full-stack platform built for autonomy

Founded in 2020 in Munich, RobCo said that it enables increasingly autonomous robot operations inside real production environments through physical AI. By combining perception, motion planning and self-learning methods, RobCo said its platform is designed to reduce friction between today’s processes and end-to-end automation, allowing teams to focus less on setting up and maintaining systems and more on their core business processes and value drivers.

“With $100 million of additional funding, we will become the dominant AI robotics company for manufacturing in the U.S. and Europe” said Roman Hölzl, founder and CEO of RobCo. “This will allow us to execute on our purpose of automating the ordinary, so humans can do the extraordinary.”

The company said that the U.S. has become both a strategic priority and a major growth market as manufacturers accelerate automation efforts in response to labor constraints, reshoring initiatives and rising operational complexity.

“Manufacturing is entering a new phase where autonomy will be a decisive advantage,” said Morgan Samet, managing partner & co-head of Lingotto Innovation. “RobCo stands out because it brings Physical AI into real production environments, combining proven deployment today with a clear, step-by-step path toward higher autonomy - allowing learning systems to support people where it matters most on the factory floor.”

RobCo added that it has been vertically integrated from day one, developing hardware and software as a single full-stack platform. The company said that its robots can acquire task-specific skills through demonstration and self-learning rather than manual programming, enabling faster deployment, rapid iteration and easier adaptation to complex or variable processes - with RobCo acting as a single pane of glass for customers.