FieldAI, a developer of robotic autonomy and physical artificial intelligence, has raised US$405m across two successive funding rounds.
The investment, backed by major investors including Bezos Expeditions, BHP Ventures, Canaan Partners, Emerson Collective, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Prysm, and Temasek, signals growing confidence in FieldAI’s mission to deploy general-purpose robotics at industrial scale.
Existing investors Gates Frontier and Samsung also participated.
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The latest round follows rapid adoption of the company’s robotics platform and a series of expansion contracts with major clients across sectors including construction, manufacturing, energy, inspection, and logistics.
FieldAI’s technology is now active across a wide range of robots and environments globally, with deployments in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Founded by roboticists with experience from organisations such as NASA JPL, DeepMind, Google Brain, and Tesla, FieldAI is developing what it describes as a single “software brain” for autonomous robots.
Its core technology, known as Field Foundation Models (FFMs), is designed specifically for physical environments, enabling robots to navigate dynamic, real-world conditions without relying on pre-mapped data, GPS, or manually coded behaviours.
Unlike traditional AI models adapted from vision or language systems, FieldAI’s FFMs are built from the ground up to manage uncertainty, physical risk, and real-world constraints.
According to the company, these models enable autonomous decisions to be made directly at the edge, without cloud dependency, and are already in daily use across a wide variety of robotic platforms, including humanoid robots, quadrupeds, wheeled vehicles, and even passenger-scale systems.
Founder and CEO Ali Agh, said: “We’ve taken a fundamentally different approach to robotic AI. Rather than adapting language or vision models, we’ve built risk-aware architectures specifically designed for the physical world. With Field Foundation Models, we’re enabling scalable deployment across diverse, high-risk environments.”
The newly raised capital will be used to support FieldAI’s global expansion, accelerate product development across locomotion and manipulation, and scale up hiring efforts. The company plans to double its headcount by the end of the year.
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