RoboForce - Additional Funding
$5M Raised
RoboForce just dropped a fresh $5M into the tank, and if you think that’s just another round of robot funding, you haven’t been paying attention. This isn’t about humanoid hype. This is industrial muscle, built by a team that actually knows the grit behind the grind. Founded in 2023 by Leo Ma, who cut his teeth at Baidu USA and co-founded Cyngn (now listed on Nasdaq), RoboForce was never built to impress VCs with glossy renders. It was born to solve real-world pain. The kind of pain you get when you’re sweating through 120 degrees in a solar field or buried two miles down in a copper mine with no one willing to take the job.
The company’s flagship robot, Titan, is a 24/7 AI-powered beast that doesn’t flinch at the heat, doesn’t complain about the shifts, and doesn’t need a benefits package. We're talking 1mm precision, a 40kg payload, and all-terrain brawn wrapped in a system that deploys in four weeks flat, compare that to the 52-week hiring, training gauntlet for humans. You want ROI? Titan delivers $300K worth of laborvalue for $100K on a lease. Math’s not even close. This is Robo-Labor that makes sense on the balance sheet and on the job site.
That $5M infusion, announced May 19, 2025, quietly stacks on top of their $10M seed from January. No flash, just fuel. Prior backers? Heavy hitters like Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel (Softbank VC co-founder), and Carnegie Mellon University aren’t gambling on sci-fi, they’re backing industrialAI that’s already proving itself in Arizona heat, Chilean mines, and high-precision manufacturing lines. Pilots are active across solar, mining, and auto assembly. Titan’s even under a MoU for lunar construction with a space systems integrator. Because when your robot handles Earth, the next step is obvious.
The company's led by CEO Leo Ma and co-founder Calvin Zhou, a CMU brain with Cruise DNA. They’ve assembled a 15-person squad with roots in Amazon Robotics, Tesla, Apple, and Waymo, and they’re doubling headcount this year. Their edge? Tight AI hardware co-design, modular everything, and domain-specific intelligence that learns fast and adapts faster. And with 3 patents pending and OSHA compliance in sight, RoboForce isn’t just first to market, they're first to mission-critical deployment.
By Q4, Titan goes commercial with a 50-unit fleet, leased at $8K a month. That’s a subscription model that scales, a cost that undercuts human labor, and a value proposition that doesn’t break under pressure. If you're building solar in deserts, mining beneath mountains, or manufacturing in chaos, RoboForce isn't the future, it’s the fix.
Leo, Calvin, congrats on turning labor pain into robotic gain. Let's see what happens when brains, brawn, and $15M collide in the dirt.
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