Asia
🇯🇵 Japan Robotics
Industrial arm incumbents; slower humanoid capital formation.
Companies
10
Total funding
$0
Funding, 12 months
$0
Robots tracked
0
M&A
0
Top companies
| Company | Sector | Stage | Total funding | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FANUC | Industrial Robot | Public | — | |
| Fujitsu | — | Public | — | |
| Hitachi | — | Public | — | |
| Kawasaki Heavy Industries | — | Public | — | |
| Mujin | — | Growth | — | |
| Preferred Networks | — | — | — | |
| Qibitech | — | Series B | — | |
| Sony | — | Public | — | |
| Telexistence | — | Series B | — | |
| Yaskawa Electric | — | Public | — |
Companies in Japan
Recent funding
- Qibitech · Series B—
- Mujin · Series D (first close) · led by NTT Group—
- Preferred Networks · Extension round (additional investors)—
- Preferred Networks · Extension round—
- Preferred Networks · Equity and debt financing (first close) · led by SBI Group—
- Qibitech · Third-party allotment (third round) · led by JIC Venture Growth Investments—
- Mujin · Series C extension—
- Mujin · Series C · led by SBI Investment—
M&A
None on record.
News
- Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
- What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
- Gradient leads US$7.6 million round for Feather, which sells a US$29,990 two-armed robot and lets buyers pick the brain
- Paris-based Inbolt raises $12.5 million to take its AI robot vision from car plants to data centres
- Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
- Hitachi and FANUC pair edge AI chips with industrial robots, aiming for a global physical AI rollout from fiscal 2027
- Tokyo's Qibitech raises about ¥600 million in Series B to sell one control layer for robots from any maker
- General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
- D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
- Universal Robots launches Gen 7 cobot platform as Teradyne takes its fight with Chinese rivals to Europe's patent court