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D-Robotics has closed a $400 million Series C financing round, bringing its announced funding to roughly $770 million as the young chipmaker seeks a larger role in computing for humanoid and industrial robots. The company says its Sunrise chip family has shipped more than 8 million units. It plans to use the new capital to expand the lineup and develop software spanning AI-model training, deployment and real-time joint control. com , which reported the company will use the proceeds primarily to refine its Sunrise chip series and build out an end-to-end embodied-AI software stack.

com characterizes D-Robotics as a Hong Kong-based maker of AI chips and robotics software, leaving the company's exact home base unsettled in public reporting. This is the fourth funding round D-Robotics has completed in roughly 26 months. As reported by Tech Times , the startup has raised $100 million in Series A funding, $120 million in a March Series B1 and $150 million in an April Series B2, ahead of this month's $400 million close. com . Named customers cited by that outlet include UBTECH, TARS, Spirit AI and X Square Robot. The broader Sunrise chip family spans a wide performance range, and D-Robotics reports its first-half 2026 revenue grew several-fold year over year compared with the same period in 2025, as reported by D-Robotics , per the same account.

com reports. The company adds that hundreds of intelligent robot products have already been created using its technology and are serving millions of users worldwide, according to the same source. After this Series C, the outlet's report notes that D-Robotics' disclosed 2026 fundraising alone reached $670 million, on top of its earlier rounds. D-Robotics is not the only company chasing the robot-brain market. com , and it pairs a Blackwell GPU with 128GB of memory. com . Adoption of Jetson Thor is already underway among some of the biggest names in humanoid robotics.

Agility Robotics plans to use the platform as the onboard compute for the sixth generation of its Digit robot, while Boston Dynamics is integrating Jetson Thor into its Atlas humanoid, both according to Nvidia's blog post. com reports. Nvidia says more than 2 million developers already use its technologies for robotics workflows, and Jetson Thor developer kits start at $3,499, with production modules priced from $2,999 for orders of 1,000 units. The international market also brings regulatory risk. S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security warned in May 2025 that using certain China-developed advanced-computing integrated circuits without required authorization could expose companies to enforcement under General Prohibition 10, including criminal and administrative penalties.

For a Chinese AI-chip company serving overseas customers, that warning creates a potential compliance constraint around how its chips are used and supplied internationally, according to the Bureau of Industry and Security . The scramble for robot-compute contracts is playing out against forecasts of explosive long-term growth. com , and the bank estimates the broader global humanoid-robot market could hit $5 trillion by 2050, with cumulative deployments reaching as many as 1 billion units by that year. Morgan Stanley's research also points to a shifting cost structure inside each robot.

The average humanoid-robot bill of materials is expected to fall from roughly $131,000 today to about $23,000 by 2045, even as semiconductors' share of that bill of materials climbs from today's 4 to 6 percent up to 24 percent, per the same forecast. That combination — cheaper robots with pricier chips inside them — helps explain why chip suppliers are racing to lock in customers now. com .