Dino Mavrookas's Saronic leads an $18.8B robotics funding rush
Crunchbase says robotics startups have already topped 2025 funding, with maritime autonomy, humanoids and industrial robots pulling the biggest checks.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Crunchbase News
Why it matters
Robotics funding is being repriced around physical AI, but the biggest winners are founders who can turn capital into production capacity, field reliability and real deployments.
Dino Mavrookas's Saronic has become the anchor deal in a robotics funding surge that has already pushed the category past last year's full-year total, with Crunchbase News reporting that robotics startups globally have raised $18.8 billion so far in 2026.…
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