Robotics & Physical AI Startups Raise ~$48B YTD — SkimNews
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- Robotics and physical AI companies have raised approximately $48 billion year-to-date in 2025, according to PitchBook data cited by the Financial Times.
- Physical AI developers are placing cameras in homes, offices, and factories to capture footage of people completing tasks, using the recordings as training data to fill a gap in their datasets.
Why it matters: The roughly $48 billion flowing into robotics and physical AI in a single year — combined with companies instrumenting homes, offices, and factories with cameras to film people doing real tasks — shows that real-world visual data is now treated as the essential fuel for next-generation AI development.
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