Foundry Robotics raises $100 million to build America’s first autonomous factory for assembly
Foundry Robotics raises $100 million to build ‘America’s first autonomous factory for assembly’
Foundry Robotics has secured $100 million in Series A funding to develop America’s first autonomous factory for complex assembly. The company combines AI-powered robotic cells with manufacturing expertise to create flexible, scalable production systems. The funding will expand its Emeryville facility and accelerate deployment of AI models in manufacturing, targeting high-value electro-mechanical products across defense and commercial sectors.
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ls with experienced manufacturing experts. With the new funding, Foundry will build out its Emeryville facility, accelerate deployment of AI models into real-world manufacturing, and grow its robotics research, engineering, and factory operations teams. Foundry has expanded its manufacturing footprint twentyfold to a 130,000-square-foot facility in Emeryville. The company currently serves defense and commercial indus
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Foundry Robotics raises $100 million to build ‘America’s first autonomous factory for assembly’
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Foundry Robotics has announced its oversubscribed $100 million Series A funding round led by Marlinspike Partners. Participating in the round are early backers Khosla Ventures and Red Glass Ventures, and new investors SE Ventures, Wing VC, and Axiom Ventures, as well as existing investors Hanabi and Zero Shot Fund. Foundry builds and operates autonomous factories for complex assembly, combining AI-powered robotic cel
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ls with experienced manufacturing experts. With the new funding, Foundry will build out its Emeryville facility, accelerate deployment of AI models into real-world manufacturing, and grow its robotics research, engineering, and factory operations teams. Foundry has expanded its manufacturing footprint twentyfold to a 130,000-square-foot facility in Emeryville. The company currently serves defense and commercial indus
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tries, focusing on high-value, complex electro-mechanical products where production is constrained. Applications include drones, autonomous vehicle subassemblies, wire harnesses, underwater vehicles, telecom/data center infrastructure, ground robots, rugged computers, robot compute boxes, satellites, and more. Foundry has also expanded its multidisciplinary team, bringing together robotics researchers, AI and softwar
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embly stack and integrate intelligence at every layer – own the buildings that manufacture for our customers while orienting them for robotics deployment. Our mission is to revitalize US manufacturing and create more capacity to build and scale critical product assembly.” Defense and industrial companies can design new hardware faster than ever, but manufacturing remains a critical bottleneck. Traditional assembly li
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nes are built around a single product, take months to deploy, and are costly to reconfigure. Foundry takes a different approach, leveraging physical AI to build flexible assembly capacity that deploys quickly, adapts to different products, and scales with demand. “Production capacity is a national constraint on getting unmanned systems to the fleet,” said Duane Fotheringham, president, HII Unmanned Systems. “Foundry’
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