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// 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)

CAPITAL FIGURES ARE MEDIA-EXTRACTED ESTIMATES, NOT VERIFIED FILINGS.

Capital raised, weekly
◀ $1.0B · wk of 06-292026-06-29 ── 2026-08-24 · WEEKLY
Deals by stage
series c
$2.1B · 3 DEALS
series a
$40M · 2 DEALS
seed
$5M · 1 DEAL
Mention momentum
MENTIONS / WEEK · PEAK 7

EXTRACTED FROM 25+ PODCASTS & VC NEWSLETTERS · MEDIA-REPORTED FIGURES, NOT VERIFIED FILINGS

// COMPANIES
6 COMPANIES
01
Figure
figure.ai
$3.5B · GROWTH · SEP 4
52 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN SEP 15, 2026
02
1X Technologies
1x.tech
$72M · SERIES C · AUG 28
12 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 28, 2026
03
Apptronik
apptronik.com
$935M · GROWTH · JUL 7
8 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 13, 2026
04
Shanghai AI Laboratory
shlab.org.cn
9 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN MAY 28, 2026
05
PoKe Robotics
1 SIGNAL · LAST SEEN MAY 25, 2026
06
Disney Research
research.disney.com
8 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN MAY 14, 2026