Rhoda AI Raises $450 Million in Series A to Build Foundation Models for Manufacturing and Logistics Robots

Traditional industrial robots rely heavily on preprogrammed instructions and struggle to adapt autonomously when materials, production-line configurations or processes change. Rhoda AI’s FutureVision was pretrained on hundreds of millions of online videos and uses closed-loop video-prediction control. The company hopes the system will help robots cope with uncertainty in manufacturing and logistics environments, making it feasible to automate a broader range of highly variable tasks.

On March 10, 2026, Rhoda AI emerged from 18 months of stealth and announced a $450 million Series A round led by Premji Invest, valuing the company at $1.7 billion post-money. The funding will support research and development, industrial deployments, customer pilots and team expansion. In a recent high-volume manufacturing test, its system completed a part-handling process in under two minutes without human intervention.