Agile Robots Raises $500 Million at $8.5 Billion Valuation

The Munich robotics maker closed a SoftBank-led Series F with Nvidia and Hitachi, taking total funding to about $2 billion.

Agile Robots has raised $500 million in a Series F funding round led by SoftBank Group, valuing the Munich-based robotics company at $8.5 billion. Nvidia, Hitachi and T.Capital joined the round, the company said on Thursday, taking its total funding since it was founded in 2018 to about $2 billion.

The company plans to use the money to expand in the United States, add production capacity in Germany and enter new markets. A production site in Fuerstenfeldbruck, near Munich, opened early in 2026 and is designed to build up to 10,000 legged and wheeled humanoid robots a year.

Agile Robots was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center by Zhaopeng Chen and Peter Meusel. It now employs more than 2,000 research and development specialists and holds over 650 patents. Its portfolio spans humanoid robots, robotic arms, mobile robots and dexterous hands, along with the software and AI models that run them, and the company says it has deployed 20,000 industrial robotic solutions worldwide.

The humanoid line is the newest layer of that business. Agile Robots launched its full-size industrial humanoid, Agile ONE, in November 2025, and in October it unveiled the Agile ONE SN research platform with Nvidia at the GTC conference in Berlin: a 1.4-metre, 40-kilogram robot running on Nvidia's Jetson Thor computing platform. SoftBank previously led the company's Series C round; the new round is smaller than the roughly $800 million financing SoftBank was reported to be considering earlier this year.