The California-based startup is building robots designed to handle industrial work that’s dirty, dangerous, and increasingly difficult to staff.
The company targets sectors where physically demanding labor is becoming scarce: utility-scale solar installations, data centers, mining operations, shipping yards, and manufacturing floors. RoboForce’s approach centers on a physical AI foundation model that learns from both real-world deployments and high-fidelity simulation.
The technical backbone comes through collaboration with NVIDIA. Robots run on Jetson Thor at the edge, while development leverages Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Cosmos for synthetic data generation, and OSMO for cloud-to-edge orchestration
Current funding, a $52 million round led by YZi Labs, bringing total capital raised to $67 million. Funding will help accelerate three priorities: advancing the robot foundation model, scaling manufacturing of physical AI robots, and driving commercialization through production deployments.
