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Robotics investments top $3.7B in September 2024

Listen to this article Fifty-four producers of robots and robotics enabling technologies raised funding in September 2024, pulling in a total of $3.7 billion. This is the highest monthly funding amount for 2024. September’s investment exceeded June 2024’s total – the previous monthly leader – by over $1 billion and was more than 2.5 times the 12-month trailing average of $1.4 billion. The total investment targeted to robotics companies for January through September 2024 equals

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Robotics investments near $1B in August 2024

Listen to this article Swiss-Mile raised $22M in August 2024 for its wheeled quadruped. Fifty producers of robots and robotics enabling technologies received funding in August 2024, pulling in a total of approximately $1 billion. This figure is on par with the $1.2 billion average The Robot Report has tracked each of the previous 12 months. Investment targeted to robotics companies for the first eight months of 2024 equals about $10.86 billion. You can follow

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Robotics investments top $1.3B in July 2024

Listen to this article [embedded content] Robotics companies raised approximately $1.3 billion in July 2024. That figure is a result of 47 investments for producers of robots and robotics enabling technologies. July’s total is slightly more than the 12-month trailing investments average of $1.2 billion. Investments for the first seven months of 2024 equals approximately $9.7 billion. The $9.7 billion figure compares favorably to the January to July 2023 total funding amount of $8 billion.

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Autonomous vehicles fuel $2.7B funding boom in June 2024

Listen to this article [embedded content] Forty-eight companies that make robots or relevant enabling technologies raised a total of $2.7 billion in June 2024. At press time, this was the highest monthly funding total of 2024. It exceeded May’s total by more than $500 million and was more than double the 12-month trailing investments average of $1.3 billion. Robotics investments for the first six months of 2024 totaled about $8.4 billion. The largest investments were, once

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Robotics investments drive past $2.1B in May

Listen to this article Robotics investments for May 2024 topped $2.1 billion, the result of funding for 38 companies. The $2.1 billion is the highest monthly funding amount for the year 2024 and greatly exceeds the trailing 12-month average of $1.2 billion. Robotics funding through May 2024 totals approximately $5.7 billion. The two largest robotics investments were raised by autonomous driving companies. UK-based Wayve raised a $1 billion Series C, while Massachusetts-based Motional raised $475

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Robotics investments top $466M in April 2024

Listen to this article Figure 1: Global Robotics Investment – Trailing 12 Months. Robotics investments reached at least $466 million in April 2024, the result of 36 funding rounds. The April investments figure lagged recent months and was the smallest amount since November 2023. April 2024’s investment total was significantly less than the trailing 12-month average of $1.1 billion (see Figure 1). Providers of collaborative robots scored the two largest rounds. As described in Table

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March 2024 robotics investments total $642M – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Chinese and U.S. companies led March 2024 robotics investments. Credit: Eacon Mining, Dan Kara Thirty-seven robotics firms received funding in March 2024, pulling in a total monthly investment of $642 million. March’s investment figure was significantly less than February’s mark of approximately $2 billion, but it was in keeping with other monthly investments in 2023 and early 2024 (see Figure 1, below). California companies secure investment As described in Table 1

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