Facts

• Segment: Warehouse Automation
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2022
• Website: https://www.co.bot/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Collaborative Robotics, branded as Cobot, builds Proxie, a mobile collaborative robot for material movement and human-scale manipulation. Proxie has operated in hospitals, manufacturing floors and logistics facilities, and the 2026 Gen 2 update adds Autotasking, ScoutSense, self battery swap and optional bimanual arms.

Market context

Proxie Gen 2 Human-collaborative mobile manipulation robots for logistics and structured commercial workflows.

Products

• Proxie Gen 2 - Proxie

Facts

• Website: https://www.co.bot/
• HQ: Santa Clara, United States
• Founded: 2022
• Segment: Warehouse Automation
• Funding total: $130M
• Known funding rounds: 3
• Latest funding date: 2024-04-10

Funding

• 2024-04-10 - Series B - $100M - Collaborative Robotics raises $100 million Series B led by General Catalyst - source: prnewswire.com
• 2023-07-26 - Series A - $30M - Collaborative Robotics raises $30 million Series A and launches its Flywheel customer program - source: prnewswire.com
• 2022-06-15 - Seed - $10M - Collaborative Robotics launches with $10 million in seed funding - source: accesswire.com

Investors

• 1984 Ventures - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-06-15 - latest 2024-04-10
• Calibrate Ventures - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-06-15 - latest 2024-04-10
• Khosla Ventures - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-06-15 - latest 2024-04-10
• Neo - Lead - Unknown - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-06-15 - latest 2024-04-10
• Mayo Clinic - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-07-26 - latest 2024-04-10
• MVP Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-07-26 - latest 2024-04-10
• Sequoia Capital - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-07-26 - latest 2024-04-10
• Bison Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-04-10
• General Catalyst - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-04-10
• Industry Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-04-10
• Lux Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-04-10
• Fuel Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-07-26
• Jeff Wilke - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-07-26

Collaborative mobile manipulation for logistics

Collaborative Robotics develops mobile manipulation robots intended to work around people in structured commercial environments. Its Cobot platform is positioned around practical logistics and material-movement workflows rather than humanoid walking robots.

• Target environment: Warehouses, logistics facilities and adjacent structured commercial sites where goods need to move through human-occupied workflows.
• Deployment model: Robot-platform deployment model centered on mobile manipulation, human-aware operation and workflow integration with existing operations.
• Customer context: Logistics and commercial operators looking for robotic assistance that can work near people without requiring fully rebuilt facilities.
• Workflow context: Robots move boxes or goods through existing workflows, supporting repetitive material handling while people remain part of the operating environment.
• Commercial maturity: Commercializing startup with a focused public product surface and robotics leadership background from Amazon Robotics and adjacent automation work.
• Market position: Positioned between warehouse AMRs and humanoid robots: more manipulation-capable than simple mobile bases, but targeted at practical operations rather than general humanoid labor.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site integration, safety validation, workflow fit, payload/task constraints and whether the robot can handle real-world variability in human-occupied logistics settings.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent systems include warehouse AMRs, mobile manipulators, item-handling robots, fulfillment automation and humanoid logistics pilots.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-22 - Product Launch - Cobot announces second-generation Proxie mobile collaborative robot - The launch says first-generation Proxie has logged 12,627 production operating hours and moved more than 40 million pou…
• 2024-12-01 - Capability - Collaborative Robotics develops Proxie with NVIDIA Isaac and reports early production deployment metrics - Collaborative Robotics said it used NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS, Jetson AGX Orin, and…
• 2024-11-20 - Product Launch - Collaborative Robotics launches Proxie, its first collaborative robot, and names initial customers - Collaborative Robotics officially launched Proxie as its first robot and positioned it a…
• 2024-04-10 - Funding - Collaborative Robotics raises $100 million Series B led by General Catalyst - Collaborative Robotics announced a $100 million Series B led by General Catalyst with participation from existing and…
• 2023-07-26 - Funding - Collaborative Robotics raises $30 million Series A and launches its Flywheel customer program - Collaborative Robotics announced a $30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital with participation fr…
• 2022-06-15 - Funding - Collaborative Robotics launches with $10 million in seed funding - Collaborative Robotics launched with $10 million in seed funding shortly after founding, led by former Amazon Robotics executive…

Operations / Deployments

• 2024-12-01 - Capability - Collaborative Robotics develops Proxie with NVIDIA Isaac and reports early production deployment metrics - Collaborative Robotics said it used NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS, Jetson AGX Orin, and…
• 2023-07-26 - Funding - Collaborative Robotics raises $30 million Series A and launches its Flywheel customer program - Collaborative Robotics announced a $30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital with participation fr…

Team

• Brad Porter - Founder and CEO

Relationships

• investor - Seed investors named in Accesswire launch coverage for Collaborative Robotics.
• investor - Series A investors named in PR Newswire release for Collaborative Robotics.
• investor - Mayo Clinic participated in Collaborative Robotics Series A per PR Newswire.
• customer - Named Proxie launch customer in PR Newswire.
• NVIDIA - technology_partner - Co.Bot described building Proxie with NVIDIA Isaac and Jetson per company news.

Context tags

• Mobile manipulation - Workflow - Proxie combines autonomous mobility with optional bimanual manipulation.
• Material handling - Workflow - Proxie has moved materials in hospitals, manufacturing and logistics operations.
• Bimanual mobile manipulation - Workflow - Proxie Gen 2 adds a modular two-arm configuration for human-scale tasks.
• Factory material transport AMR - Peer Group - Proxie is used for material movement in manufacturing environments.
• Warehouse Automation - Customer Environment - Launch and product-page sources include logistics, warehouse kitting and material movement.
• Healthcare Logistics - Customer Environment - Launch and product-page sources cite hospital and healthcare operations.

Customers and deployments

• Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2024-12-01 - Collaborative Robotics develops Proxie with NVIDIA Isaac and reports early production deployment metrics - source posture: Company Disclosed

Record / Articles

• 2024-11-20 - Collaborative Robotics is turning mobile cobots into a shared-workspace material handling layer - A 100 million dollar Series B and Proxie launch put Collaborative Robotics across healthcare, logistics, and…