THE ROBOT REPORT

Maven Robotics raises $100M to put two-armed warehouse robots on wheels

Maven Robotics, a Santa Clara, Calif. startup founded in 2024, told The Robot Report it has raised $100 million and moved from pilots to a production contract with its first customer. Its wheeled, two-armed robot starts with mixed-case palletizing and tote handling, and CEO Hamza Derbas says the company plans a couple hundred robots on production contracts over the next year.

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Why this matters

For the 806

Stacking mixed pallets and moving totes is real work people do in distribution centers, including around Lubbock. Maven's own figures say its robots already run 16 hours a day, five days a week at one customer, and the company wants fleets running around the clock. But the sources name no customers, no locations and no prices, so there's no way to tell from this whether any of it reaches the South Plains.

What we know

  • Maven Robotics was founded in 2024 and is based in Santa Clara, Calif.
  • The company raised $100 million from RoboStrategy, LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures and XTX Ventures.
  • CEO Hamza Derbas says its robots run 16 hours a day, five days a week, with up to 99% uptime.
  • The robot has a wheeled base, two seven-degree-of-freedom arms, carries 30 kg (66.1 lb.) payloads and can reach up to 3 m high.
  • Its first two workflows are mixed-case palletizing and tote handling, with assembly and fabrication named as later goals.
  • Maven sells its robots as a service and says it aims for a couple hundred robots on production contracts next year and thousands by 2028.

What we don't know

  • Only one authoritative outlet found so far — no second independent source yet.
  • Exact event date not confirmed — publicationDate used as the best-known date.
  • The price of the robots or the robots-as-a-service contracts is not stated.
  • The names of Maven's customers and the locations of its deployments are not stated.
  • Whether the 99% uptime and 16-hour-day figures have been checked by anyone outside the company is not stated.
  • What happens to the warehouse workers doing these tasks today is not stated.
  • Whether the company will meet its targets of 24/7 operation or thousands of robots by 2028 is not stated.

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