Rhoda AI, a robotics firm backed by Temasek, has raised $450 million in a Series A funding round. The company will use the money to speed up the development of its robotics technology and expand its use in industrial applications.
The company is supported by major technology investors such as Capricorn Investment Group, Khosla Ventures, Leitmotif, Matter Venture Partners, Mayfield, Premji Invest, Prelude Ventures, Temasek, and Xora. It is also backed by well-known Silicon Valley leaders such as John Doerr.
“By learning from internet-scale video and operating in closed loop, our systems are designed to adapt to real-world variability in ways conventional approaches struggle to achieve,” Rhoda Co-founder and CEO Jagdeep Singh said in the release. “The goal is simple: robots that work in the real world, not just controlled lab settings.”
Rhoda AI is led by Jagdeep Singh, a serial deep-tech founder who has built and grown several technology companies. The company’s Chief Science Officer is Eric Ryan Chan, a Stanford University researcher who specializes in computer vision and generative AI and previously worked as a generative model architect at WorldLabs.
The leadership team also includes Gordon Wetzstein, a professor at Stanford and head of the Computational Imaging Lab. They are supported by a team of experts from leading companies and research groups in generative AI, computer vision, and robotics.
“We believe the first company to deploy intelligent, manipulation capable robots at scale in real world environments will kick start a powerful data flywheel, creating a compounding advantage in capturing the long tail of real world edge cases,” said Sandesh Patnam, Managing Partner at Premji Invest.
Rhoda AI also announced its public launch on Tuesday after spending 18 months in stealth mode. The company introduced FutureVision, a new robotic intelligence system based on video-predictive control, designed to help robots work effectively in real-world environments rather than only in controlled laboratory settings.
