Flexion Secures $50M to Advance Autonomy Stack for Humanoid Robots

• Flexion raised Series A funding to grow its platform, team, infrastructure, and international presence.
• Its software stack is built to let humanoid robots perform tasks with little human oversight.

Flexion, a robotics company based in Zurich, has raised $50 million in Series A funding to develop its software platform for humanoid robots. The round includes participation from DST Global Partners, NVentures (NVIDIA’s investment arm), redalpine, Prosus Ventures, and Moonfire. The company plans to use the funding to increase its R&D, scale its compute and robot fleet, and establish operations in the U.S.

Flexion is developing a reinforcement learning and sim-to-real system to enable humanoid robots to be deployed with minimal human involvement. The platform is made up of language models for interpreting task instructions, a vision-language-action model trained largely on synthetic data, and a modular control library for generating full-body movement. It is designed to let humanoid robots act with more independence, removing reliance on scripts, teleoperation, or fixed task logic.

Flexion’s mission is, in its words, "to power the intelligence stack for humanoid robots, so they can work alongside humans, not depend on them." The team comes from backgrounds at ETH Zurich, NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Tesla, and Amazon. The company says it is already working with major OEM partners and that this new investment will help scale these partnerships globally.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

The race to build the “robot brain” is just beginning, and it’s a big one. Real-world deployment depends less on hardware and more on data, learning, and intelligence.

Source: Flexion