Industry Timeline

Fremont factory lines repurposed for Optimus production

Raised $520M Series A extension at $5.5B valuation

Production Atlas unveiled; deployments at Hyundai and DeepMind

Raised $1.4B led by SoftBank & NVIDIA at $15B valuation

Partnership with Boston Dynamics for Atlas deployments

Deal to ship 10,000 NEO robots to EQT portfolio companies by 2030

¥1.7B in revenue reported; filed for Shanghai STAR Market IPO

Raised $600M at $5.6B valuation led by CapitalG

NEO launched at $20,000 price point

Raised $1B+ Series C at $39B valuation

Seeking $1B at $10B+ valuation

Received $1B investment from Infini Capital

Raised $400M Series C-3 at $2.1B valuation

Hundreds of Optimus robots deployed in Tesla factories

Launched Fourier N1, China's first verified open-source humanoid

Released Isaac GR00T N1 — world's first open humanoid foundation model

Raised initial Series A (est. $415M)

H1 performed Yangko dance on CCTV Spring Festival Gala

Raised ~¥800M (~$110M) Series E funding

Mi-Sense 2.0 depth vision module upgrade

Released Phoenix Gen 8 for high-quality data capture

Received C$30M from Government of Canada

Raised $400M at $2B valuation

Valued at $2.4B after additional funding

Gen 3 hands with 22 DOF revealed

Launched Walker S1 and Walker S Lite for industrial use

Launched π0 foundation model for robot control

Completed Series C at ¥8B valuation with Tencent, Alibaba

Introduced Figure 02 humanoid robot

Acqui-hired by Amazon; founders and 25% of staff join Amazon

Funding surpasses $140M with BDC and InBC investment

Raised $300M Series A led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank at ~$1.5B

Unveiled all-electric Atlas humanoid

Founded by researchers from Google, Stanford, UC Berkeley

Announced Project GR00T foundation model and Jetson Thor at GTC

Advanced robotics research integrated with Gemini models

Raised $675M Series B at $2.6B valuation

Raised $100M Series B led by EQT Ventures

Opened RoboFab, first humanoid robot factory

Launched GR-2 with improved capabilities

Optimus Gen 2 demonstrated with improved hands

IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raised HK$1B

Unveiled Apollo humanoid robot

Unveiled GR-1 humanoid robot

Released RT-2 vision-language-action model for robots

Raised $70M Series A

Unveiled Phoenix humanoid robot

Raised $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI

Founded by CMU professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta

Optimus prototype unveiled at AI Day 2022

Unveiled CyberOne humanoid robot

Raised $150M Series B

Company founded by Brett Adcock

Optimus concept announced at Tesla AI Day

Acquired by Hyundai Motor Group for $1.1B

Founded in Vancouver, Canada

Acquired by SoftBank

Founded by Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and others from UC Berkeley

Founded as spin-off from UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab

Founded in Hangzhou, China

Founded as spin-off from Oregon State University

Founded in Shanghai

Founded as Halodi Robotics in Norway

Acquired by Google

Founded in Shenzhen, China

Founded as a spin-off from MIT