RoboForce said it engineered its AI robot Titan for the most demanding industrial applications. | Source: RoboForce
RoboForce Inc. last week introduced its latest mobile manipulator, Titan, an AI robot for industrial deployments in demanding outdoor environments. The Milpitas, Calif.-based startup also announced an additional $5 million in funding from new and existing investors.
“We’re excited about the official launch of Titan,” stated Leo Ma, the founder and CEO of RoboForce. “Titan marks just the beginning—we’re excited to share more breakthroughs in the near future. The additional funding demonstrates the confidence in our vision to elevate humans beyond dull, dirty, and dangerous work.”
RoboForce said it is “pioneering the world’s most advanced Robo-Labor systems.”
Titan offers industrial capabilities
Titan is powered by Domain Intelligence, tight optimization of hardware and artificial intelligence, and highly modular hardware, according to RoboForce. The robot has strength, precision, efficiency, and the ability to continuously learn and operate across industrial domains, claimed the Milpitas, Calif.-based company.
Titan delivers five key primitive capabilities—pick, place, press, twist, and connect—essential for most industrial tasks, RoboForce explained. It can achieve 1 mm (0.03 in.) precision for fine-grained manipulation, has a 40 kg (88.1 lb.) payload, 1,100 mm (43.3 in.) of arm reachability, and an eight-hour production runtime.
The mobile manipulator comes in wheeled and tracked base variations, with more on the way.
RoboForce plans for growth
RoboForce said that its latest investment follows a $10 million early-stage round in January, bringing its total capital raised to $15 million. The latest funding will support a new, expanded headquarters in Silicon Valley featuring advanced facilities for development and testing, it added.
The company is also hiring top talent in AI and robotics to join its growing team and build the future of physical AI. RoboForce is reportedly targeting the solar, space, manufacturing, and mining industries, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor said are those most affected by injuries and loss of labor from unsafe summer temperatures and other work-related hazards.
RoboForce has several pilot pilot programs planned for 2025.
Mobile manipulators an alternative to humanoids
While humanoid robots have dominated recent conversations in robotics, wheeled mobile manipulators have increasingly emerged as a less complex alternative. Like humanoids, these robots can autonomously navigate and grab objects.
In November 2024, Collaborative Robotics, a startup founded by Amazon’s Brad Porter, unveiled its Proxie system.
Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) recently introduced its MC600 mobile manipulator. That robot combines the MiR600 AMR with the UR20 and UR30 collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots (UR). The MC600 earned MiR and UR parent company Teradyne a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award.
In addition, Dexterity in March introduced its Mech dual-armed robot for truck loading.
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