Agile Robots announced on 12 November 2026 that it had raised a $500 million Series F at a valuation of $8.5 billion, with SoftBank leading the round and NVIDIA and Hitachi among the participants. The Munich-based company, which describes itself as a Physical AI business, said the round brings its total invested capital to $2 billion.
Who put in the money
SoftBank Group led the Series F. In the company’s own wording, the round also drew NVIDIA, Hitachi Group (Hitachi and Hitachi Ventures), T.Capital, and others. Reuters, reporting on 12 November 2026, said the $500 million round was led by SoftBank and valued the German robotics company at $8.5 billion, with Nvidia and Hitachi also taking part. AFP put the same valuation at 7.7 billion euros. A spokesman told AFP that the company, founded in 2018, was now Europe’s most valuable “physical AI” robotics firm. Agile Robots says the new capital takes total invested capital to $2 billion.
What Agile Robots is building
The company positions itself in Physical AI: humanoid and mobile robots, robotic arms and hands, and the software and AI models behind them, aimed at helping industrial customers automate tasks that have traditionally relied on human dexterity and judgment. Agile Robots was founded in Munich in 2018 as a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), a lineage Reuters also notes.
On scale, the company says it has more than 20,000 robotic solutions installed worldwide, with deployments across automotive, consumer electronics, logistics and other industries. It lists customers among leaders in the automotive, consumer electronics, healthcare and service industries. The announcement also cites over 650 patents. Those are company figures.
Where the money goes
Agile Robots says the proceeds will support expansion in the United States, additional production capacity including in Germany, and entry into new markets. AFP reports the same three priorities; Reuters says the company will use the money to expand in the US and add production capacity, including in Germany. The manufacturing side already has a concrete anchor: the company says that early in 2026 it opened a new production site at Fürstenfeldbruck, near Munich, to meet rapidly rising demand, with capacity to produce up to 10,000 legged and wheeled humanoid robots annually. Reuters cites the same capacity figure.
What the raise means for vendors
A $500 million round at an $8.5 billion valuation gives Agile Robots a much larger balance sheet to spend against a short list of stated priorities: US expansion, additional production capacity including in Germany, and entry into new markets. Those are the lines suppliers can plan against, whether they sell components, controls software, simulation tooling, logistics or market-entry services, and they sit in a region where other robotics startups are drawing on the same talent and supplier base. Vendors tracking Germany startups should note that the company explicitly includes Germany in the capacity build-out, on top of the Fürstenfeldbruck site it opened early in 2026. The raise also sits alongside Physical AI’s $2.8B week, which showed how quickly capital is pooling in the category.
The US expansion line is the one to watch commercially, and the company put it among the stated uses of proceeds. European deep-tech raises have also been clustering in the same week: Growth List also covered UFORCE’s $700M Series A, a London-headquartered defence-technology round, this week.
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Sources: Agile Robots, 12 November 2026; Reuters via U.S. News; AFP; SiliconANGLE. Featured image: Munich’s old-town skyline with the Hackerbrücke, by Schlaier, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.