Whether unmanned loading and unloading track is promising?
In March 2025, the mobile robotics field ushered in capital injection, with total financing exceeding 1 billion yuan in a single month, most of which flowed to companies focusing on unmanned loading and unloading robots. This trend reflects that the global logistics industry is accelerating the transformation to full-process automation, and the loading and unloading robots with the core form of “robotic arm + mobile chassis” have become the focus of capital bets.
Dexterity Completed $95 Million Series C Financing
In March, Dexterity, a logistics robotics company, announced that it had completed $95 million in Series C financing, and its post-investment valuation soared to $1.65 billion. The funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sumitomo Corporation, not only sets a new record for its funding, but also marks a key turning point in which AI-powered logistics robots are moving from the lab to large-scale commercial applications.
Dexterity has already established partnerships with logistics giants such as FedEx, UPS, and Japan’s Sagawa Express. For example, DexR, a truck-loading robot developed for FedEx, autonomously enters and exits trailers to complete cargo sorting without pre-sorting, increasing efficiency by 47%. A joint venture with Sumitomo plans to deploy 1,500 robots in Japan, while partnering with global warehouse automation giant Dematic to promote intelligent warehouse solutions.
Anyware Robotics obtained $12 million in financing
Recently, Anyware Robotics announced that it had obtained $12 million (equivalent to about 86 million yuan) in seed funding. The round was led by GFT Ventures, with participation from investors such as Foothill Ventures, Black Forest Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.
The funding will be used for the expansion of Pixmo, the company’s versatile mobile robot. It combines an automatic mobile robot (AMR) base, a collaborative robotic arm with six degrees of freedom, and a vacuum-driven end effector designed for box handling. The mobile base has a footprint comparable to that of a typical pallet and can be moved in any direction, creating the optimal handling position for the robotic arm inside or outside the container.
Contoro Robotics raised financing of $12 million
Contoro Robotics recently mentioned that it had raised $12 million (roughly 86 million yuan) in Series A financing to scale up its artificially intelligent robots.
Contoro has developed customer-specific AI models, innovative grasping technology, and HITL supervision. Contoro initially trained its robots using teleoperation, but now its AI learns on its own, requiring human intervention only when dealing with exceptions.
Contoro plans to produce more robots and eventually assemble them in Austin. The company also plans to enter new logistics markets with its next-generation AI palletizing system.
ELU.AI completed Pre-A round of financing and raised hundreds of millions yuan
In March, ELU.AI announced the completion of Pre-A round of financing and fundraising of hundreds of millions yuan, with investors such as Leading Capital, HIIG, Xingtai Capital Management, etc., as well as additional investment from the angel round investor, CCV. ELU.AI focuses on the three core areas of AI Intelligent Robot, Industry AI Agent, and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, and it has three sub-brands, such as INFIFORCE, LIGHTFORCE and UNIFORCE, focusing on intelligent robots, industry AI applications and robot brains respectively. In October 2024, INFIFORCE released the world’s first intelligent fully-automatic charging robot, which opened up the whole chain of “automatic driving, automatic parking and automatic charging” and promoted the commercialization of automatic driving.
