Manufacturers around the world are struggling with the same problem: factories are under pressure to automate, but today’s robots are often hard to deploy, expensive to maintain, and slow to adapt when processes change.
Labour shortages, rising costs, and more complex production lines have only widened the gap between what automation promises and what it delivers on the factory floor.
Munich-based robotics company RobCo believes it has an answer. The company has raised $100 million in a Series C round to scale its autonomous industrial robotics platform and push deeper into the U.S. market.
The new funding round is co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, the investment firm backed by Exor. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif, and The Friedkin Group also joined the round.
The fresh capital will be used to expand RobCo’s Physical AI roadmap, roll out more robots inside real factories, and strengthen its footprint in the United States. The funds will be used to scale enterprise deployments, improve autonomy across RobCo’s robotics platform, and support long-term growth in both Europe and the U.S.
RobCo also plans to invest further in product development as its systems learn from more real-world factory data over time.
“With this $100 million, we are building the leading AI robotics company for manufacturing in the U.S. and Europe. Our goal is simple: automate repetitive work so people can focus on higher-value tasks,” said Roman Hölzl, founder and CEO of RobCo.
What is RobCo building?
Founded in 2020, RobCo develops a full-stack robotics platform that combines hardware and software into a single system. Instead of relying on complex manual programming, RobCo’s robots learn new tasks through demonstrations and self-learning. This approach allows robots to adapt more quickly to real production environments, where conditions often change, and processes are rarely perfect.
The platform brings together perception, motion planning, and learning, helping manufacturers spend less time setting up automation and more time running their core operations.
RobCo also positions itself as a “single pane of glass” for customers, meaning companies don’t need to juggle multiple vendors for hardware, software, and integration.
Expanding across the US
RobCo entered the U.S. market in 2025 and now operates out of San Francisco and Austin. The expansion comes as American manufacturers ramp up automation to deal with labour shortages, reshoring efforts, and growing operational complexity.
The company’s robots are already in use across different industrial settings, including deployments with BMW and other industrial firms in energy, manufacturing, and electronics.
“After leading RobCo’s Series B, we’re excited to double down and co-lead this $100 million round. Our bar is exceptionally high, and RobCo has continued to raise the standard for what modern robotics can look like in real-world production. RobCo has what it takes to build a global champion: systems that already deliver in industrial environments today and a platform grounded in Physical AI that can scale across use cases and geographies. This investment supports RobCo’s expansion with a focus on the U.S. and the continued development of a roadmap that compounds learning and grows capability over time,” said Alexander Schmitt, Lightspeed.
Morgan Samet, Managing Partner & Co-Head of Lingotto Innovation, added: “Manufacturing is entering a new phase where autonomy will be a decisive advantage. RobCo stands out because it brings Physical AI into real production environments, combining proven deployment today with a clear, step-by-step path toward higher autonomy – allowing learning systems to support people where it matters most on the factory floor.”
