About Robot Fund
The money behind the machines.
Robot Fund is a show, a tracker and a weekly brief about who is funding robotics and physical AI, and whether the robots are real.
The show
Real or Render?
Every episode takes the week’s biggest robotics rounds and stamps each company with a verdict: Shipping, Piloting, Demo or Render. The rounds land in the tracker with their sources, so you can check our work.
- Shipping
Paying customers and units working in the field.
- Piloting
Deployed with named partners, not yet at scale.
- Demo
Works on a stage or in a video. Not in the wild.
- Render
Slides and CGI. A valuation in search of a machine.
What you get
Three ways in
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The show
Real or Render? The week’s biggest robotics rounds, each stamped with a verdict. Short-form on YouTube, TikTok and Reels.
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The tracker
Every round we cover in one place: company, sector, amount, date, source and verdict.
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The brief
Five minutes every Monday at 7 a.m. Who raised, who shipped, who slipped, and the one company worth watching.
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Standards
How we judge
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Real companies, real rounds
Every round in the tracker is public and links to its source: a filing, a press release or reporting we can point to. Nothing is made up.
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Verdicts from the field
A verdict reflects what is working outside the demo: customers, deployments and units, not promises or renders.
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Nobody pays to appear
Companies are chosen by the show. If anything is ever sponsored, the episode and its page say so.
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Not investment advice
Robot Fund is a media and research publication, not a fund. We do not offer securities or tell anyone what to buy.
Accountability
Who signs off
The Robot Fund desk
HipBits · Orph Labs AI, Inc.Every round and verdict is researched and checked by the Robot Fund editorial team before it is published.
AI voice
The voice
Robot Fund’s on-air voice is AI-generated. The companies, numbers and sources are real, and scripts are written and fact-checked by the production team.
HipBits · Orph Labs AI
Who makes it
Robot Fund is an independent show from HipBits, a network of short, fast shows made by Orph Labs AI, Inc. It is not affiliated with any company it covers.
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