Supernova Invest is a venture capital firm based in France. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes Kraken.
Round size: $175M
The initiative offers more than 100 robots and 10,000 free evaluation hours, while initial G1 tests reveal how far robot policies remain from reliably completing tasks.
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While automotive OEM orders declined in the first half of 2026, they picked up in Q3. Source: A3 North American companies ordered 10,989 robots valued at $723.5 million in the third quarter of 2026, according to the latest data from the Association for Advancing Automation, or A3. Orders increased 24.8% in units and 26.1% in value compared with the third quarter of 2025, making it the strongest quarter of the year so far, it said. The third-quarter gains pushed total orders for the first nine months of 2026 to 28,984 robots valued at approximately $1.89 billion, A3 reported. This represented increases of 9.6% in units and 13.3% in value over the <a href="https://www.therobotreport