阿姆斯特丹，10月5日电：德国机器人制造商 RobCo 周一表示，公司估值已突破 10 亿美元，CEO Roman Holzl 已迁居美国，以专注于公司增长最快的市场。
AMSTERDAM, Oct 5 : German robotics maker RobCo on Monday said it had passed a $1 billion valuation and that its CEO Roman Holzl had relocated to the United States to focus on the company's fastest-growing market.
这家总部位于慕尼黑的公司表示，其估值基于1月完成1亿美元融资后进行的一次股份二级交易，参与投资的机构包括光速创投、红杉资本和 Lingotto。
The Munich-based firm said the valuation was based on a secondary sale of shares following a $100 million capital raise in January with investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia and Lingotto.
在此次二级交易中，员工向现有和新投资者出售了股份，后者包括 Cherry Ventures 和 European Tech Collective。
In the secondary sale, employees sold shares to existing and new investors including Cherry Ventures and the European Tech Collective.
《华尔街日报》最先报道了周一的交易及估值情况，称此次交易涉及出售价值 4000 万美元的股份。
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported Monday's transaction and valuation, said the transaction involved the sale of $40 million worth of shares.
RobCo 加入了一个规模虽小但正在壮大的欧洲机器人初创公司行列。这些公司的估值均达到或超过 10 亿美元，并正在开拓新兴的人形及类人机器人市场，包括德国的 NEURA Robotics 和 Agile Robots，以及英国的 Humanoid。
The company joins a small but growing group of European robotics startups valued at $1 billion or more that are targeting the emerging humanoid and human-like robot market, including NEURA Robotics and Agile Robots of Germany, and Humanoid of the UK.
RobCo 成立于2020年，生产用于制造业的机器人。公司表示，将于3月推出双臂自主学习机器人 Alfie，用于执行工业环境中难以通过传统自动化完成的任务。
Founded in 2020, RobCo makes robots used in manufacturing. It said it will in March launch Alfie, a two-armed, self-learning robot designed to perform tasks in industrial settings that can't easily be done with traditional automation.
除慕尼黑总部外，该公司的业务还覆盖奥斯汀和旧金山。公司表示，其客户目前已遍布美国十余个州。
The company, which has operations in Austin and San Francisco in addition to its Munich base, said it now has customers in more than a dozen US states.