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According to Bloomberg News, Agile Robots has completed one round.US$500 million (approximately RMB33.35 billion)Financing and valuation reachedUS$8.5 billion (approximately RMB56.88 billion)• This round of financing will be financed by:SoftBank GroupIt's been a long time coming.InvisalignThe company will use the new funding to expand in the United States and other markets and enhance manufacturing capacity.
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The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.A statement by Bloomberg shows that the cumulative funding of the Sling robot has reachedAround US$2 billion (approximately RMB13,338 million)。
Its founder, CEO Chen Zhengqian, graduated from the Robotics Institute of the Harlem Industrial University, and is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong in the field of space robotics, where he served as deputy director of the laboratory of the Institute for Robotics and Mechanical Integration at the German Space Center. He co-founded the Thinking Robot with his colleague Peter Meusel.
He is the co-founder and CEO of SILING ROBOT.
Chen Mejiao told Bloomberg that the Sling robot is approaching a critical point, and despite challenges in battery life, weight distribution and the quality of the world's training data, human robots can outperform humans in some tasks.
The company's website shows that it has built the core hardware capabilities of robotic operating systems, basic models and application algorithms, from motors, decelerators, sensors, to mechanical arms, hands-on and humanoid robots, and extended them to production lines and factory applications.
On October 21, at the GTC conference in Berlin, Intelligent Robotics and Intelligent Robotics jointly released a research-oriented tool called Intelligent Robotics.Agile ONE SN is a humanoid robotThe robot is integrated into the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T ecosystem, manufactured as a pre-configured complete software package, and originally supported the GR00T VLA model and full-body controller.
Agile ONE SN is 1.4 meters tall, weighs 40 kg, has 31 degrees of freedom, and is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Thor computing platform, which provides 2070 TFLOPS AI computing power (FP4) and 128GB of memory, which can be used for real-time sensor processing and model reasoning. Its joint torque is up to 140 Nm, with a single-arm load of up to 3 kg.
It is a collaborative project with Invisalign.com.
In October, Intel revealed that it was launching a joint project with Audi, Dassault Systems, and Invidia to explore the applications of humanoid robots at the Audi Goldstein plant, focusing on verifying the actual performance of humanoid robots in parts selection, material sorting scenarios.
The project has been launched at the Audi Production Lab, with Intel providing mobile humanoid robots, Audi supply chain experts involved in defining operational requirements, DASO Systems and InVida providing virtual birth and simulation technology support, jointly verifying whether robots can reliably complete part selection and sorting, and integrate into existing logistics processes.
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According to the official website, Intel's products include full-size humanoid robot Agile ONE, assistant robot H10-W, intelligent flexible robot operating platform FIP, seven-dimensional intelligent control robot series, high-precision intelligent robot Thor series, fully automatic integrated robot series, electric two-finger crawler, and more.
Among them,Agile ONEReleased in November last year, its instructions confirm the delay of less than 0.2 seconds. The robot's sleek handle can only withstand a million repetitive operations, with an average failure-free time of 8,000 hours.
Agile One (source: Agile One)
In terms of robot manufacturing, the company launched a new production base near Munich earlier this year to meet the rapidly rising demand.10,000 of themIt's a human robot.
Synopsis: A transformation in investment logic for humanoid robotsMass production deliveries are the hard stuffAt the level of capital, global robotics investment is still booming in 2026, but it can be seen from the flow of funds that the market is no longer simply seeking to demonstrate brilliant samples, focusing more on mass production capacity, customer orders, and software integration capabilities. From the latest layout of thinking robots, while expanding Germany's domestic capacity, while pushing its home products to a global footing, it is the typical path for human robots startups to pursue commercialization. In the next one to three years, the industry may enter a subdivision, with robots needing to simultaneously master core hardware control, software delivery, and complete scale deliveries in order to digest the expansion expectations of huge financing.
