Tutor Intelligence secures $75 million to expand warehouse robot fleets

Warehouse automation company Tutor Intelligence announced that it has raised $75 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Union Square Ventures and Neo. The fresh capital brings the Watertown, Massachusetts-based startup's total funding to $117 million. Although one outlet identified the round as a Series A, The Robot Report reports that it is a Series B investment designed to scale manufacturing and training for the company's frontier models and robot fleets. [1][2]

Spun out of MIT CSAIL in 2021, Tutor Intelligence operates internet-connected machines that learn from remote human operators called "tutors." The lineup includes Sonny, a two-armed, semi-humanoid robot built for item picking, and Cassie, a mobile manipulator intended for case picking and palletizing. Instead of selling machines outright or using standard subscription models, the company charges customers per hour or per pick without requiring upfront purchases or long-term contracts. Tutor maintains the machines, delivers continuous software updates, and opened a Data Factory earlier this year to evaluate policies across 100 physical units. [2]

Tutor says its active robots have doubled across nearly four times as many facilities compared to last year, handling goods ranging from cereals to cosmetics. The company aims to place more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027, noting that all units will be manufactured and deployed in the United States even if some remote tutors operate from overseas. [2]