Toyota is a corporate investor based in Japan.
Tangent Robotics has raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop dexterous robot hands for manufacturing applications. The Columbia University spinout, founded by Pedro Piacenza, Matei Ciocarlie, and Ioannis Kymissis, combines hand hardware, optical touch sensing, and learned motor skills, with its three-finger TR02 hand illustrating a focus on dexterity without reproducing human hand anatomy.
Walden Robotics, an MIT-born startup that spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026, has secured $300 million in strategic investment from Toyota, Boeing, Samsung, and Nvidia. The company has already deployed its general-purpose humanoid robots—featuring two arms with wheels instead of legs—at a Toyota North American assembly plant, progressing from pilot to production in under two months.
Moove raised $250 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $2.1 billion, to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles including fleet ownership and robotics-first depot facilities called Nests. The company plans to expand globally, grow its autonomous vehicle workforce by over 220%, and through its partnership with Waymo, operates autonomous fleets in Phoenix, Miami, and London.