SoftBank Group Corp. is reportedly in early negotiations to lead an $800 million funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, deepening its "brains and bodies" investment strategy in physical AI.
Munich-based Agile Robots and Google DeepMind have announced a strategic research partnership to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with industrial hardware, aiming to solve the "data bottleneck" through a scalable AI flywheel.
The Munich-based unicorn joins the industrial humanoid race with a focus on tactile precision, landing squarely in the middle of a global engineering debate over how to build the perfect robotic hand.