Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility to train its humanoid robots in Fremont, California, just down the road from the factory where Tesla is expected to begin manufacturing its Optimus robots this year. Tesla has increasingly bet on Optimus. Elon Musk recently said he hopes it will be “the biggest product ever created” once
The humanoid robotics market is awash with money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots, raised nearly $735 million at a valuation of nearly $3 billion. Earlier this year, Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics, closed a $935 million funding round valuing the