A Flurry of Self-Driving and Robot Startup Deals

Road robots: Autonomous trucking unicorn TuSimple raised $350 million from “U.S. rail, retail, and freight giants,” TechCrunch reported last week. A couple weeks ago, middle-mile autonomous delivery startup Gatik raised a $25 million Series A.

Warehouse robots: Last Tuesday, Caja Robotics announced a $12 million Series B. The startup is developing “goods-to-person” robotic systems.

Construction robots: Canvas emerged from stealth last month with $19 million in fundraising to date. The SF startup is creating an automated robot for drywall finishing.

Industrial robots: On Thursday, ANYbotics announced a $22 million Series A. The Swiss startup makes quadruped robots vaguely resembling Boston Dynamics’s Spot. Like many Swiss tech companies, ANYbotics spun out from ETH Zurich.

Percepto raised a $45 million Series B in late November. The Israeli startup bills its industrial drones as an all-in-one solution (and Ryan flew one from his laptop). The startup is expanding from drones to robotic site inspections—and integrating the Spot robot into its offering.