Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank
Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the largest ever in construction robotics.
The deal confirms reports that surfaced earlier that Masayoshi Son’s conglomerate was circling the young company.
Gravis, founded in 2022 and headquartered in Zürich with outposts in Austin and Oxford, does not build machines of its own.
Instead it makes the brains that bolt onto someone else’s: a retrofit control kit called Gravis Rack, and an assistance layer, Gravis Copilot, that between them can turn a mixed fleet of diggers into autonomous or semi-autonomous ones.
The software is pitched as manufacturer-agnostic, claiming to run across kit from Caterpillar, John Deere, Volvo, JCB, Hitachi and others, rather than locking buyers into a single brand.
The company’s framing is that most robotics has taught machines to move...
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