Facts

• Segment: Development Platform
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2025
• Website: https://anvil.bot

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Articles
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Summary

Anvil Robotics builds composable hardware and software devkits for physical AI. Its platform combines robot hardware, sensors, compute and controls so teams can prototype, train and deploy robotic systems without assembling every subsystem from scratch.

Market context

Anvil is targeting a real bottleneck in robotics development: the time and integration effort required to get a usable robotic system online. Its value lies in compressing robot bring-up, teleoperation, and data-collection workflows into a more accessible platform layer for smaller labs and product teams. Proprietary hardware and software platform for robotic system bring-up and Physical AI development Ships configured devkits and low-volume custom robot systems rather than operating only as a software tool vendor.

• Capability: Teleoperation stack across multiple robot embodiments Robot control, motion-planning, and integrated software environment Data collection and model-training workflow support Modular hardware configuration in…
• Strategic position: Platform layer between frontier Physical AI model development and real robotic system deployment Reduc…

Products

• OpenARM
• OpenYAM

Facts

• Website: https://anvil.bot
• HQ: Palo Alto, United States
• Founded: 2025
• Segment: Development Platform
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-04-02 - Seed - $6M - Anvil Robotics raises seed funding for its modular Physical AI platform - source: news.crunchbase.com

Investors

• DNX Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
• Humba Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
• Matter Venture Partners - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
• Position Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
• Spacecadet Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02
• Vivek Sodera - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-02

Physical AI hardware devkit platform

Anvil Robotics builds composable robot hardware and software devkits for Physical AI teams developing models, controls and real-world robot systems.

• Target environment: Robot learning labs, physical AI startups, developer workbenches, manipulation research and hardware-in-the-loop training setups.
• Deployment model: Ready-to-go devkits combining robot hardware, sensors, compute, controls and software infrastructure.
• Customer context: Physical AI teams, robot learning researchers, early-stage robotics companies and developers building embodied systems.
• Workflow context: Robot prototyping, data collection, model training, hardware integration, teleoperation and physical AI development.
• Commercial maturity: Early commercial platform company with public devkits and seed funding for composable robotics infrastructure.
• Market position: Development-platform company reducing the hardware integration burden for physical AI builders.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on platform reliability, documentation, sensor and compute compatibility, developer adoption and usefulness beyond prototyping.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes physical AI devkits, robot learning hardware, open robotic arms and composable robotics infrastructure.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-04-02 - Funding - Anvil Robotics raises seed funding for its modular Physical AI platform - Seed round disclosed by Crunchbase News on April 2, 2026; the company is positioning around a modular platform for buildin…
• 2026-03-16 - Product Launch - Anvil Robotics launches ready-to-go devkits for Physical AI - The company publicly launched integrated devkits that bundle robot hardware, software, controls, cameras, and teleoperation wor…

Team

• Mike Xia - CEO
• Vijay Pradeep - CTO

Relationships

• Participant - Spacecadet Ventures participated in Anvil Robotics' seed round.
• Participant - Position Ventures participated in Anvil Robotics' seed round.
• Participant - DNX Ventures participated in Anvil Robotics' seed round.
• Participant - Vivek Sodera participated in Anvil Robotics' seed round.
• Lead investor - Matter Venture Partners led Anvil Robotics' seed round.
• Lead investor - Humba Ventures led Anvil Robotics' seed round.

Context tags

• Mobile robot development platform - Peer Group
• Robotics development platform - Peer Group
• Robot prototyping platform - Peer Group

Articles

• 2026-04-02 - Anvil Robotics raises $6.5M to build a modular hardware and software platform for physical AI teams - The eight-month-old Palo Alto startup manufactures open-source robotic development kits in Taiwan and sh…