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HOME/THEMES/HUMANOID WHOLE-BODY SIM-TO-REAL LEARNING
// THEME

Humanoid Whole-Body Sim-to-Real Learning

Companies building humanoid robots that jointly apply imitation learning from human demonstrations and sim-to-real transfer to achieve robust whole-body locomotion and dexterity in real-world deployments.

COMPANIES 8VELOCITY ▲ RISINGCAPITAL 28D $617.3M · 5 DEALS
TOP INVESTORS: accel (1) · andreessen horowitz (1) · contrary (1) · google (1) · lachy groom (1)

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

Capital raised, weekly
◀ $1.0B · wk of 06-292026-06-29 ── 2026-08-31 · WEEKLY
Deals by stage
series a
$540M · 3 DEALS
series c
$2.1B · 3 DEALS
seed
$5M · 1 DEAL
Mention momentum
MENTIONS / WEEK · PEAK 7

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

// COMPANIES
8 COMPANIES
01
Figure
figure.ai
$3.5B · GROWTH · SEP 4
51 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN SEP 4, 2026
02
Mind Robotics
mindrobotics.ai
$500M · SERIES A · ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ + ACCEL · AUG 31
9 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 31, 2026
03
1X Technologies
1x.tech
$72M · SERIES C · AUG 28
12 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 28, 2026
04
Apptronik
apptronik.com
$935M · GROWTH · JUL 7
8 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN AUG 13, 2026
05
AI Vibe
3 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN SEP 9, 2026
06
SONIC
2 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN SEP 9, 2026
07
Daimon Robotics
dmrobot.com
3 SIGNALS · LAST SEEN JUN 30, 2026
08
PoKe Robotics
1 SIGNAL · LAST SEEN MAY 25, 2026