FieldAI, a leader in physical AI and robotic autonomy, has announced a significant funding boost of $405 million through two successive funding rounds. Prominent investors include Bezos Expeditions, BHP Ventures, Canaan Partners, Emerson Collective, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA’s VC arm), Prysm, Temasek, alongside previous backers Gates Frontier and Samsung.
The latest round was notably oversubscribed, driven by rapid customer adoption and multiple contracts for its general-purpose robotics intelligence. FieldAI’s technology has been successfully tested and deployed across hundreds of complex industrial environments globally.
The company is pioneering the new era of general-purpose robotics, developing a universal software brain that powers diverse robots in varied settings. Its robots are operational daily at numerous international client sites, spanning sectors such as construction, energy, manufacturing, and urban delivery. These robots operate autonomously in real-time, making decisions at the edge and seamlessly integrating with client workflows. They have amassed extensive real-world data, demonstrating rapid model evolution and delivering scalable, cost-effective autonomy.
The fresh capital will bolster FieldAI’s global expansion, accelerate product development in locomotion and manipulation, and support strategic hiring plans, aiming to double its team by year-end. Central to this growth is the development of Field Foundation Models (FFMs), advanced “physics-first” models tailored for embodied intelligence. Unlike traditional models, FFMs handle uncertainty, risk, and physical constraints, ensuring safe operation in unpredictable environments without the need for prior mapping or GPS. Their hardware-agnostic design allows deployment across various robot types, including quadrupeds, humanoids, and wheeled vehicles.
With leadership from experts in AI from DeepMind, Google Brain, Tesla, NASA, SpaceX, and other prominent organizations, FieldAI combines deep research expertise with real-world deployment experience. From Mars rovers to industrial factories, the company’s innovations have driven breakthroughs in autonomous robotics, cementing its position at the forefront of the industry.
KEY QUOTES:
“Enabling autonomy solutions at scale is an extremely difficult problem, but the deep expertise of the FieldAI team and their unique approach to embodied intelligence reflects a pragmatic path forward. FieldAI is at the forefront of the general-purpose robotics revolution, and its ability to rapidly deploy will unlock long-term economic and societal value.”
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures
“Our team has spent years in the field, driving major breakthroughs in ‘field robotics’ and safety-critical robotic AI in complex environments. With a deep understanding of the resilience and robustness required to deploy robotic AI in complex real-world conditions, we have taken a fundamentally different approach. Rather than attempting to shoehorn large language and vision models into robotics—only to address their hallucinations and limitations as an afterthought—we have designed intrinsically risk-aware architectures from the ground up. With Field Foundation Models, we are enabling robotic operations to scale seamlessly across diverse environments with varying risk profiles, moving beyond the constraints of traditional solutions.”
Ali Agha, Founder and CEO of FieldAI
“We are excited and privileged to be partnering with the FieldAI team on this next phase of their journey. Their new class of foundation models offers the reliability and adaptability required for autonomous robotics deployment at scale across numerous sectors. FieldAI’s revolutionary models not only greatly broaden possible use cases but also enable risk-aware deployment, a critical element for scaling AI that has the potential to reshape how robots interact with the physical world.”
Jay Park, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Prysm Capital
