XPeng funds IRON before production as Neura buys cleaners already in the field
XPeng raised more than 900 million dollars for IRON before mass production. Neura bought ADLATUS to put its own brain in working cleaners. General Intuition is closing a 6 billion dollar round to move its model into robot bodies.
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IRON is funded before mass production
Guangzhou-based XPeng said its robotics business raised more than 900 million dollars at a post-money valuation above 6.3 billion dollars. IDG Capital led the round, Gaorong Ventures joined, and Tencent and Alibaba came in as strategic investors. The company describes the round as the largest single private financing in China's embodied AI field. The money goes to the IRON humanoid robot, the physical AI model behind it, mass-production plants and commercial rollout. IRON has 76 degrees of freedom in its body and 21 in each hand. XPeng plans to start mass production at the end of 2026 and to make commercial deliveries in China and abroad in 2027.[1]
Neura buys cleaners that already work
The German robot maker NEURA Mobile Robots has acquired all of Ulm-based ADLATUS Robotics. The price was not disclosed. ADLATUS builds autonomous cleaning robots for industry, logistics, healthcare and public spaces, and runs its own navigation software. It plans to connect the hundreds of autonomous cleaning and sweeping robots already in the field to Neuraverse, its own physical-AI environment. Hamburg-based NEURA Mobile Robots has more than 300 employees and units in Reutlingen, Milan, Prague and Buckingham. Founder David Reger says the aim is to give these machines a new brain. The purchase follows the ACTIVE Shuttle line taken over from Bosch Rexroth.[2]
A game-trained model aims at robot bodies
General Intuition is closing a round that lifts its valuation from 2.3 billion dollars two months ago to 6 billion dollars. The company says it will direct the money toward robotic applications. The round is led by Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six, with Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst returning. The company is building a foundation model that teaches agents how to move through space and time, drawing training data from hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay footage and attached action labels from its parent platform Medal. Chief executive Pim de Witte spun the company out of Medal in October 2025. A partnership with CoreWeave is being set up for compute. Investor Vinod Khosla sees action labels as a key part of models generalising to tasks they were not trained on.[3]
