// THEME
Humanoid Imitation-Sim Hybrid Learning
Companies and labs that jointly leverage imitation learning from human demonstrations AND sim-to-real transfer to train humanoid robots, using simulation to scale and diversify the teleoperation/motion-capture data that imitation learning alone cannot provide.
COMPANIES 6VELOCITY ▲ RISINGCAPITAL 28D $117.3M · 4 DEALS
TOP INVESTORS: contrary (1) · google (1) · lachy groom (1) · mercedes-benz (1)
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Capital raised, weekly
Deals by stage
series c
$2.1B · 3 DEALS
series a
$40M · 2 DEALS
seed
$5M · 1 DEAL
Mention momentum
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// COMPANIES
6 COMPANIES
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figure.ai$3.5B · GROWTH · SEP 4
52 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN SEP 15, 2026
1X Technologies
1x.tech$72M · SERIES C · AUG 28
12 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 28, 2026
Apptronik
apptronik.com$935M · GROWTH · JUL 7
8 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 13, 2026
Shanghai AI Laboratory
shlab.org.cn9 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN MAY 28, 2026
PoKe Robotics
1 SIGNAL · LAST SEEN MAY 25, 2026
Disney Research
research.disney.com8 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN MAY 14, 2026