Walden Robotics Raises $300M For Wheeled Factory Robots
AI Business reported that Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with $300 million in seed funding, a $1.1 billion valuation and robots already working at a Toyota plant in North America. The company has not named order volumes, contract values, robot counts or deployment dates beyond the Toyota site.
Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with a $300 million seed round and a $1.1 billion valuation, according to the company.
AI Business reported that the Toyota Research Institute spin-out is using a humanoid upper body on a mobile base rather than building fully bipedal robots.
$300 Million Seed Round Includes Toyota, Nvidia And Boeing
The funding round was co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital.
The investor list also includes Nvidia, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures and Prologis Ventures.
Walden is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the company spun out of the Toyota Research Institute in January.
Its robots are built for manufacturing and logistics environments rather than consumer service roles.
Wheeled Robots Are Already At A Toyota Plant
According to Walden, the robots entered production work at a Toyota manufacturing plant in North America in February.
The deployment moved from an initial pilot to plant-floor work in less than two months.
The hardware combines a humanoid upper body with a wheeled mobile base.
Walden prioritises safety, endurance and deployability in the design because wheeled robots can stop more predictably around people, fit existing industrial safety requirements more easily and carry larger batteries and onboard computing systems.
Large Behaviour Models Carry The Learning Claim
The robots use large behaviour models, or LBMs, which The report described as AI systems designed to let robots acquire new skills through experience and adapt to different tasks.
Walden co-founder Russ Tedrake wrote in the press release that physical AI advances had made disruptive change possible, but that manufacturing value still depends on understanding how production work is done today.
Walden also works with customers across the automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, electronics, logistics and life sciences industries.
AI Business placed Walden in a physical AI market that includes Figure, Apptronik and Agility Robotics, but Walden's disclosed design focuses on factory deployment rather than human-like mobility.
Customer Evidence Beyond Toyota Remains Unnamed
Toyota remains the only named manufacturing-site deployment, leaving the scale of Walden's customer order book outside the public record.
