D-Robotics Has $270M to Own Robot Brains — Europe Has Nothing

D-Robotics just closed a $270M Series B to cement its position as the dominant silicon layer for China's embodied AI boom. Horizon Robotics — its publicly listed parent — reported $546 million in 2025 revenue, growing at 57.7% year-over-year. European AI investment is surging, but none of it is going into dedicated robot brain chips. That gap is about to matter enormously.

What happened in China In the span of a single month, D-Robotics — the embodied AI chip subsidiary spun out of Horizon Robotics — raised $180M, closing a $120M B1 round on March 16, 2026 and completing a Series B that now totals $270M. This is not a generalist AI bet. The capital is explicitly earmarked for purpose-built silicon: chips designed from the ground up to run the inference workloads that embodied AI systems — humanoid robots, industrial arms, autonomous vehicles — demand in real time, at the edge, with constrained power budgets. The fundraise lands against a backdrop of genuine commercial momentum. Horizon Robotics, D-Robotics' parent, reported full-year 2025 revenue of $546 million — or CNY 3.8 billion (≈$532 million) in its Hong Kong-listed earnings — up 57.7% year-over-year. That growth rate is not a startup projection. It is audited revenue from a company already embedded in China's…

D-Robotics Has $270M to Own Robot Brains — Europe Has Nothing

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