PitchBook：2026年机器人与物理AI风险投资趋势报告（英文版）

Q1 2026 marked a structural break in robotics financing: Robotics & physical AI startups raised $16.3 billion across 492 deals, the strongest single quarter on record by both measures, up 154% QoQ and256% YoY. Three rounds (Shield AI at $1.5 billion, Saronic at $1.8 billion, Neura Robotics at $1.8 billion) account for roughly $5 billion of the value total. Strip those and the underlying quarter is approximately$11.3 billion, still the highest ex-outlier figure in the dataset. However, the