- Agile Robots has raised $500 million in a Series F round led by SoftBank, taking the company’s valuation to $8.5 billion.
- Nvidia, Hitachi and T.Capital also joined the round, bringing Agile’s total funding to around $2 billion.
- The company plans to expand into the US and increase its production capacity.
Agile Robots, which makes robotic arms, hands, mobile robots, humanoids, and associated software, just raised $500 million in a Series F round led by SoftBank, with Nvidia, Hitachi, and T.Capital also joining in.
The Munich-based company is now valued at $8.5 billion. It was founded in 2018 by Zhaopeng Chen and Peter Meusel as a spin-out from the German Aerospace Centre. The funds will be used to expand into the US, ramp up production in Germany and enter new markets.
CEO and founder Chen said, “We bring Physical AI out of the lab and into industrial production.”
SoftBank was already an investor, having led Agile’s $220 million Series C in 2021, which made it Germany’s first robotics unicorn. Bloomberg reported in June that SoftBank was considering an $800 million round, so the final amount is somewhat smaller.
It’s consistent with SoftBank’s broader physical AI strategy, which includes an agreement to acquire ABB Robotics for $5.375 billion, Skild AI’s $1.4 billion round at a $14 billion valuation, and its $200 million investment in Gravis Robotics in Switzerland.
How the funding will help Agile scale
Agile has deployed some 20,000 robots across the automotive, consumer electronics and logistics sectors. Its Fürstenfeldbruck factory can produce up to 10,000 humanoids per year.
The company has over 2,000 R&D staff and over 650 patents. In October, they launched the ONE SN research humanoid, which is built on the Nvidia Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor stack.
Agile have not released its revenue numbers. Forbes has an unofficial Sacra estimate of $339 million for 2025, a 51% increase, and guidance of $690 million for 2026. On that basis, the company is valued at around 12x revenue. Forbes also noted that the humanoids being shipped during their visit were wheeled rather than legged.
Chen added, “Our vision is intelligent robots working alongside people in factories and warehouses everywhere.”
Europe’s race to build humanoid robots
Agile now overtakes Neura Robotics, also a German company, which raised a €120 million Series B in January 2025 and is reportedly valued at around $7 billion in June, with a Series C of up to $1.4 billion. In London, Humanoid raised $152 million in a Series A at $1.35 billion in July. In the US, Figure AI is at $39 billion, and Apptronik raised $520 million at a $5 billion valuation.
Agile are not starting with humanoids as their entry point. They already have a base of industrial robots and are now adding the humanoids to that.
The company’s future is about taking its factory capacity and turning it into paid deployments. For now, its valuation is based entirely on projected revenue and production targets.
