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Germany is producing a significant cluster of robotics and autonomy funding this year.
Yesterday, Munich-founded microagi announced a $55 million seed round, which the company described as the largest seed financing in German history.
It joins several much larger rounds across the stack, four of which were announced within the past five weeks.
NEURA Robotics announced a Series C of up to $1.4 billion for its physical AI platform.
Quantum Systems signed a $1.2 billion Series D to scale autonomous systems across air, land and sea.
Helsing raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation as it exp

A British maritime-autonomy unicorn was born this week.
Kraken Technology Group raised $175 million in a Series B at a $1 billion valuation.
The company builds uncrewed maritime systems and has secured contracts from the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO European partners and US Special Operations Command.
It is also expanding local production through Rheinmetall in Germany, Anduril in the US and Davie Shipbuilding in Canada.
The new capital will support further platform development and international manufacturing.
Here are the other major capital moves across robots, drones and autonomy this week.

Earlier this year, Unitree said it designs and develops more than 90% of its core hardware internally.
This week, co-founder Chen Li said Unitree's upstream joint-motor supply chain now extends little beyond raw materials such as copper wire and permanent magnets
While Reuters reported its planned RMB 4.2B (~US$619M) IPO will partly fund a smart manufacturing base.
Here are some of the other humanoid supply-chain moves from the past week:
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Since the start of last week, four Chinese companies working on embodied intelligence and a range of humanoid form factors have disclosed fresh funding at unicorn valuations.
Morphi Robot also disclosed an over-RMB1B, roughly US$139M+, angel-series round at a reported valuation above RMB7B, roughly US$1B, but is earlier-stage and less publicly productised.

Quantum Systems raised $1.2B at an ~$8B valuation this week.
The German drone maker built its base in aerial intelligence, and is now scaling software-defined autonomous systems across air, land and sea.
STARK, also co-founded by Quantum co-founder Florian Seibel, raised €500M last week at a reported €3.2B valuation.
Quantum says the new capital will go into production scale-up, supply-chain resilience, allied-market expansion, and software/AI development.
Here's the rest of this weeks capital moves in robotics, drones and autonomy:
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Image: Quantum Systems

The current generation of humanoid and humanoid-adjacent robots is producing some great designs.