Humanoid robot race: valuations of 90 companies across US, China, Europe
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Lineup of 90 physical AI companies with valuations by region (US, China, Europe, rest of Asia), backed by a sourced spreadsheet as of Aug 13, 2026. Flags that some marks are stale or in-talks, e.g. Boston Dynamics at $3.4B is only an old put-option reference.
Key claims
90 companies chasing physical AI, $8.6B raised in H1 2026
Figure $39B, Skild AI $14B, Physical Intelligence $5.6B
Unitree priced its IPO at about $9B
The humanoid robot race is accelerating!
$UNITREE is the first to go public, but not the only one cooking.
90 companies are now chasing physical AI with $8.6B raised in H1 2026 alone.
The line-up in the arena:
馃嚭馃嚫 UNITED STATES
- Figure: $39B (valuation)
- Skild AI: $14B
- Physical Intelligence: $5.6B
- Apptronik: $5B
- Boston Dynamics: ~$3.4B (Hyundai, 100%)
- Agility Robotics: $2.5B SPAC
- Mind Robotics (Rivian spinout): $2B
- Generalist AI: $2B
- The Bot Company (Kyle Vogt): $2B
- Field AI: $2B
- Dexterity: $1.65B
- Sunday Robotics: $1.15B
- Standard Bots: $1B
- Tesla Optimus: Fremont line slated for 2026
- Project Prometheus (Bezos): $6.2B raised day one
馃嚚馃嚦 CHINA
- Unitree: just priced its IPO at ~$9B
- UBTech: $5.7B (HKEX)
- Galbot: $3B
- LimX Dynamics: $2.2B
- AgiBot: $2B+ (HK IPO filed)
- Pudu: $1.5B
- EngineAI: $1.4B
- Astribot: $1.4B
- AI虏 Robotics: $1.4B
- TARS: $455M pre-A. A PRE-A.
馃嚜馃嚭 EUROPE
- Neura Robotics 馃嚛馃嚜: $7B after a $1.4B round (Tether, Nvidia, Amazon)
- Humanoid 馃嚞馃嚙: $1.35B
- 1X 馃嚦馃嚧: reportedly raising at ~$10B
- Agile Robots 馃嚛馃嚜: SoftBank circling an ~$800M round
- Wandercraft 馃嚝馃嚪: Renault-backed
馃審 REST OF ASIA
- Genki Robotics 馃嚡馃嚨: Andy Rubin's Tokyo play, $1B in under a year
- Rainbow Robotics 馃嚢馃嚪: $6B, Samsung owns 35%
- Kawasaki 馃嚡馃嚨 + Foxconn 馃嚬馃嚰 putting humanoids on factory lines
Pls note that some of the valuations might be off (e.g. Boston Dynamics as the $3.4B is only a reference from Softbank exit based on a 2021 put option agreement, while realistically the company is worth more), had to somehow settle on certain reference values tho.
Full spreadsheet with all 90 companies, valuations, rounds, investors and sources in the comments 馃憞
Full spreadsheet: 90 companies with valuations, last rounds, lead investors and a source link per row 馃搳
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JG_gyN2s1XP9-eqwMoFpii9tGajPHLyW1JH2YMdJpZ0/edit?usp=sharing
Data is mostly press-reported (Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, TechCrunch, Caixin, Sifted), as of Aug 13, 2026.
Unconfirmed/in-talks rounds are flagged in red (e.g. 1X, Agile Robots and PI's $11B round).
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$UNITREE sending ahead of IPO. It's robotics szn anon. Are you prepared? t.co/FXi8n2Bk3W t.co/2nl6a7D6Zi
$UNITREE sending ahead of IPO. It's robotics szn anon. Are you prepared? t.co/FXi8n2Bk3W t.co/2nl6a7D6Zi
