The Infrastructure Bet Behind the Robotics Boom When more than 15 new investors — spanning industrial giants like Didi and Meituan, family offices, state-backed vehicles, and top-tier financial funds — pile into a single club deal, the signal is not just about one company. It is about a thesis hardening around where durable value in robotics actually accrues. Digua Robotics' $120 million Series B1, which brings its cumulative Series A and B fundraising to $220 million, is a bet that the robotics industry's most defensible position is not the robot itself — it is the layer underneath every robot. That is a structural insight with direct implications for how European founders and investors should be thinking about their own robotics strategies right now. ## What Digua Actually Builds Digua Robotics — known in Chinese as 地瓜机器人, literally "Sweet Potato Robot" — originated as the robotics division of Horizon Robotics,…