Tutor Intelligence, a robotics research and deployment company, has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $117 million.
The round also included participation from Union Square Ventures and Neo, which previously led Tutor’s Series A and seed rounds, respectively. The new funding will support the development and training of Tutor’s robot foundation models, along with the manufacturing and deployment of its robot workers, Sonny and Cassie.
Tutor builds robots that operate in manufacturing and logistics facilities across the U.S. The company deploys fleets of internet-connected robots that operate in real world environments, with remote human operators known as “tutors” controlling them. Each task completed creates real-world data that trains and improves the company’s AI models.
“Tutor’s insight is that deployment isn’t just the destination for robotics research—it’s how you overcome its limitations. Rather than asking the real world to fit the research, Tutor starts with what real-world deployments demand and works backward through distribution, hardware and research. Continual learning across an expanding range of deployments is the path from specialized capabilities to general-purpose robotics,” said Raghu Raghuram, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former CEO of VMware.
“It’s not only that Tutor’s models let robots do jobs that robots have never been able to do before,” said Josh Gruenstein, co-founder and CEO of Tutor Intelligence. “This type of intelligence also makes robots affordable on a whole new level. We’re unlocking much broader access to the solutions that businesses need to survive and that make basic goods cheaper for everybody. And the demand is there. We can hardly build robots fast enough.”
The company offers a full-stack platform that combines robots, AI models and deployment services. Tutor’s robots are provided to customers by the hour or by the task, without an upfront purchase or long-term contract. The company also manages deployment, maintenance and software upgrades.
Tutor said its robots are now operating in nearly four times as many facilities as a year ago. The company is targeting more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027. Its robots are currently used across manufacturing and logistics networks, handling tasks involving consumer goods such as food, cosmetics, toys and household products.
Customer demand is also increasing, with nearly one-third of organizations that received Tutor robots in the past 12 months adding more robots to their facilities.
Founded out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and based in Watertown, Massachusetts, Tutor Intelligence aims to improve robot capabilities through real-world deployment and data collection.
