YZi Labs, RoboForce için 52 milyon dolarlık yatırım turuna öncülük etti.

YZi Labs, a fund with over $10 billion in assets specializing in Web3, AI, and biotech (formerly Binance Labs), has announced it led an oversubscribed $52 million funding round for the U.S. robotics company RoboForce. The total capital raised now stands at $67 million.

The round included legendary investors such as Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes, Qiming Ventures founder Gary Rieschel, Carnegie Mellon University, and others. As part of the investment, YZi Labs Managing Partner Ella Zhang has joined RoboForce’s board of directors.

RoboForce (founded in 2023 in Silicon Valley, Milpitas, California) is building a complete Physical AI stack for “Robo-Labor” - a robotic workforce that takes on the “dirty, dull, and dangerous” jobs across industries. Its flagship robot TITAN already delivers millimeter-level precision (1 mm), industrial-grade durability, and operates in extreme environments: solar farms, data centers, mines, logistics, shipbuilding, and manufacturing.

The company is tackling the global labor shortage head-on, for example, in the U.S., workforce gaps have caused delays of 53 GW in solar power plant construction as of 2024. RoboForce already has more than 11,000 orders secured via letters of intent (LOI) and is actively deploying pilot programs.

The core technology is an AI data flywheel: every robot generates real-world data that trains the foundation model, making each new machine smarter. RoboForce is deeply integrated with NVIDIA, using Jetson Thor (edge computing), Isaac Sim/Lab (simulation), Cosmos (synthetic data), and OSMO (orchestration).

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang himself highlighted TITAN as a breakthrough in Physical AI during his October 2025 GTC keynote in Washington, stating:

“AI is turning the world’s factories into intelligent thinking machines, the engines of the next industrial revolution.”

Use of funds:

• Accelerating the next-generation robot foundation model.
• Scaling Physical AI platform and production.
• Moving pilots into commercial deployments with recurring revenue.

RoboForce founder and CEO Leo Ma commented:

“Robo-Labor is at the heart of what we do, but Physical AI doesn’t scale overnight. The more we use it, the smarter it becomes. We needed patient, generational capital - that’s exactly why we chose YZi Labs.”

Ella Zhang of YZi Labs added:

“RoboForce is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in how machines interact with the physical world. This isn’t just a financial investment, it’s a partnership built on the belief that the next frontier of AI will be defined by its impact on the real world.”

For the crypto community, this is a powerful signal. YZi Labs (with a portfolio including Polygon, Injective, Ethena, Trust Wallet, and more) continues to push its AI × Web3 thesis: investing in real-world infrastructure that can become the foundation for asset tokenization, DePIN, robotic networks, and new forms of ownership in the metaverse.

While RoboForce remains a pure Web2 project without a token, the backing from ex-Binance Labs and the spotlight from NVIDIA position it as one of the hottest AI-robotics stories of 2026.