Walden Robotics

United States

Founded 2026

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Toyota Research Institute spin-out (Cambridge, MA, 2026) led by Russ Tedrake building wheeled general-purpose robots that learn on the job; US$300M seed at US$1.1B valuation.

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Robotics Snapshot

Company:Walden Robotics

Company Status:Private

Founded:2026

Funding Stage:Seed

Employees:N/A

Primary Robotics Focus:

•General-purpose factory robots

Tags:

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Country:United States

Headquarters:Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Korea's IT Giants Build the Software Layer That Will Run the Robot Factory

South Korea's four largest IT service conglomerates -- POSCO DX, SK AX, LG CNS, and Samsung SDS -- are each developing proprietary robot operating system platforms designed to serve as the AI brain layer for industrial robot deployments. The race reflects a structural shift in the Korean robotics market, where hardware commoditization is accelerating and the value is migrating to software orchestration, data management, and AI model integration.

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ROBOTS BUILT BY WALDEN ROBOTICS

Released

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Made in:

United States

Wheeled two-arm humanoid for machine tending, kitting and assembly on factory floors

Milestones

Year	Event	Source
2026	Emerged from stealth on 15 July 2026 with a US$300 million seed round at a US$1.1 billion valuation co-led by Deviation Capital and Toyota, with NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Prologis Ventures, Menlo Ventures and others.	Source
2026	Spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026.	Source

LEADERSHIP

Russ Tedrake (Co-founder & CEO) Andy Marchese (Founding Head of Hardware) Joe Romano (Head of Software)