{"id":991570,"date":"2026-02-12T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991570"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:47:24","slug":"humanoid-startup-apptronik-raises-520-million-with-backing-from-google-and-mercedes-benz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/humanoid-startup-apptronik-raises-520-million-with-backing-from-google-and-mercedes-benz\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid startup Apptronik raises $520 million with backing from Google and Mercedes-Benz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoid robotics startup Apptronik raised $520 million in a funding round backed by investors including Google and Mercedes-Benz, the company said on Wednesday, as it seeks to commercialise its robots for industrial use. <\/p>\n<p>The round valued the Austin, Texas-based company at about $5 billion, a source familiar with the matter said. \u200cB Capital \u2060and the Qatar \u2060Investment Authority also participated in the so-called Series A extension, roughly a year after Apptronik raised $415 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoid robotics startup Apptronik raised $520 million in a funding round backed by investors including Google and Mercedes-Benz, the company said on Wednesday, as it seeks to commercialise its robots for industrial use. The round valued the Austin, Texas-based company at about $5 billion, a source familiar with the matter said. \u200cB Capital \u2060and the Qatar \u2060Investment Authority also participated in the so-called Series A extension, roughly a year after Apptronik raised $415 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}