Tutor Intelligence has raised $75 million in Series B funding as it expands its approach to training and deploying robots for logistics and manufacturing. The Watertown, Massachusetts-based company said the investment will support frontier robot foundation-model training, as well as the production and deployment of its Sonny and Cassie platforms.
Founded in 2021 after spinning out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Tutor is developing what it describes as a full-stack robotics technology platform. Its systems combine data from production robots, remote human operators known as “tutors,” and simulation to improve the models that control its machines.
The company deploys internet-connected robots in customer facilities, where they perform tasks while receiving input from remote operators. Tutor then uses the resulting real-world data to train more capable models. It said this “data flywheel” is intended to make robot deployments more scalable, safer, and less expensive.
Rather than charging through a traditional robots-as-a-service model, Tutor said customers pay by the hour or by the pick, similarly to how they pay for manual labor. Customers do not make an upfront purchase or sign a long-term contract, while Tutor manages deployment and maintenance and provides software and intelligence updates.
Tutor’s Data Factory, opened earlier this year, evaluates policies across 100 physical robots. The facility includes Sonny, a two-armed semi-humanoid robot designed for piece picking, and Cassie, a mobile manipulator intended for case picking and palletizing.
The company said twice as many of its robots are now operating across nearly four times as many facilities as a year ago. Tutor is targeting more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027, with the machines built and deployed in the United States. Its robots currently move, lift, and manipulate products including breakfast cereals, snacks, candy, cosmetics, home goods, and toys across manufacturing and logistics networks.
Tutor also reported that nearly one-third of organizations receiving its robots during the past 12 months were existing customers adding more machines. The company said this reflects a shift from pilot projects toward broader enterprise adoption focused on returns from automation.
Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B round. Union Square Ventures and Neo, which led Tutor’s Series A and seed rounds, respectively, also participated. The new financing brings Tutor Intelligence’s total capital raised to $117 million.
Sources: The Robot Report.