Foundry Robotics

Robotics · Defense · Manufacturing

Funding

Foundry Robotics raises $100M Series A, acquires Avea Robotics

The deal reveals a hybrid model where AI handles routine assembly but humans remotely take over when robots hit tasks they can't yet solve.

• Foundry Robotics closed an oversubscribed $100 million Series A led by Marlinspike Partners and separately acquired Avea Robotics, maker of the Sentinel remote-control platform for robots.
• Rather than sell robots or software, Foundry owns and operates its own AI-powered assembly factories for defense and industrial hardware clients, including shipbuilder HII, from a 130,000-square-foot Emeryville, California plant.
• Avea's Sentinel software lets a human operator seize remote control of a robot mid-task, giving Foundry a fallback for assembly steps its AI models can't yet execute reliably on their own.
• Just over a year after launching with a $20 million seed round, Foundry has expanded its manufacturing footprint twentyfold and now assembles hardware for five paying customers.
• Capital is pouring into AI-driven factory automation at unusual scale: Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raised $500 million in March 2026 and another $400 million in May.
• The human-override feature undercuts the pure-autonomy pitch dominating robotics funding, suggesting fully autonomous assembly at production reliability is still unsolved even as investors bet big on it.