Servoservobrief.com, Thursday, November 12, 2026
Money keeps flowing to robot brains and industrial welders while a new sub-$2,500 humanoid tests how cheap the hardware can go.
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Path Robotics raises $300M, valuation jumps to $2.45B
Path Robotics, which builds AI software that lets welding robots plan and execute welds without manual programming, raised a $300M Series E led by Georgian, nearly quadrupling its valuation to $2.45B. Welding is a chronic labor shortage with measurable output, and a nine-figure round at that price says investors see autonomous welding as one of the clearer near-term returns in industrial robotics.
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Skild AI publishes Steel, its push to scale one brain across robots and tasks
Skild detailed Steel, a method for scaling simulation training across different robot bodies, tasks and environments toward its single omni-bodied control model. Skild said in September it crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue (vendor-reported), and the pitch here is that one policy trained broadly in simulation can drive many robots, which would cut the per-robot data cost that bottlenecks the field.
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FF EAI Robotics launches FF Nova, a humanoid priced under $2,500 in the US
Faraday Future's robotics arm and FF launched FF Nova, an embodied-AI humanoid listed below $2,500 in the US, plus a smaller Nova Mini and a developer program. The price is far under typical humanoid hardware, but this is a product announcement with no independent performance or shipment data, so treat it as a launch claim rather than a working deployment.
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Mosaic raises $47M for a semi-autonomous surgical catheter trained on simulation
Mosaic Intelligence Labs, a year old, disclosed $47M across two seed rounds led by 8VC and Fundomo for a catheter that navigates blood vessels as a surgeon feeds it in, aiming at mostly autonomous operation. Mosaic trains on Nvidia simulation and says its synthetic-data models beat real-data-only models, though the safety and efficiency claims are company projections, not clinical results. Rodney Brooks advises with equity options.
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Corridian exits stealth with $38M to build very large autonomous cargo submarines
Corridian emerged from stealth with a $38M seed led by Point72 Ventures to build ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicles for cargo transport, with a first vessel planned next year. Defense-focused capital is widening from surface marine drones to subsea autonomy, where the perception and control problems differ sharply from land robots.
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