马萨诸塞州沃特敦的机器人初创公司Tutor Intelligence已完成7500万美元的B轮融资，由安德烈森·霍洛维茨领投。该公司在周一的一份声明中表示，本轮融资使其融资总额达到1.17亿美元。
Tutor Intelligence, a robotics startup in Watertown, Massachusetts, has raised a $75 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round brings its total funding to $117 million, the company said in a statement on Monday.
领投A轮融资的联合广场风投和领投种子轮的Neo也参与了投资。Tutor未披露其估值或营收。
Union Square Ventures, which led the Series A, and Neo, which led the seed round, also invested. Tutor did not disclose its valuation or its revenue.
这笔资金将用于训练Tutor的机器人基础模型，还将用于建造和部署其两款机器人员工Sonny和Cassie。这两款机器人都运行公司自有的模型。Tutor源自麻省理工学院计算机科学与人工智能实验室。配备远程“导师”的机器人Tutor将一批联网机器人投入客户的工厂和仓库中工作，由公司称为“导师”的远程人工操作员进行引导。机器人完成的每一项任务都会产生真实世界的数据，Tutor利用这些数据训练更好的模型。
The money will pay for training Tutor’s robot foundation model. It will also fund building and deploying its two robot workers, Sonny and Cassie. Both run the company’s own models. Tutor started out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Robots with remote ‘tutors’Tutor puts fleets of internet-connected robots to work in customers’ factories and warehouses. Remote human operators, whom the company calls tutors, guide them. Every task the robots finish produces real-world data, and Tutor uses that data to train better models.
这些机器人负责搬运和处理早餐麦片、零食、糖果、化妆品、家居用品和玩具等货物。该公司表示，它们在美国一些最大的制造和物流网络中工作。
The robots lift, move and handle goods such as breakfast cereals, snacks, sweets, cosmetics, home goods and toys. They work in some of the largest manufacturing and logistics networks in the US, the company said.
“我们造机器人的速度几乎赶不上需求，”Tutor联合创始人兼首席执行官乔什·格鲁恩斯坦说。机器人按小时计费客户并不购买机器人。Tutor按小时或按拣选次数对机器人的工作收费。没有前期购买费用，也没有长期合同。公司负责部署和维护，并向机器人发送软件和模型更新。
“We can hardly build robots fast enough,” said Josh Gruenstein, Tutor’s co-founder and chief executive. Robot work by the hour Customers do not buy the robots. Tutor charges for their work by the hour or by the pick. There is no upfront purchase and no long-term contract. It handles deployment and maintenance, and it sends the robots software and model updates.
Tutor表示，目前其机器人进驻的设施数量几乎是去年同期的四倍。公司预计到2027年底将有超过1000台机器人签约，全部在美国制造。过去一年中获得Tutor机器人的机构中，近三分之一是追加采购的现有客户。该公司未透露目前运营的机器人数量。
Tutor said its robots now work in almost four times as many facilities as a year ago. It expects to have more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027, all built in the US. Nearly a third of the organisations that got Tutor robots in the past year were existing customers adding more. It did not say how many robots it runs today.
拉姆是安德森·霍洛维茨基金的一般合伙人，曾任VMware首席执行官。他表示，Tutor从真实部署的需求出发。
ram is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a former VMware chief executive. He said Tutor starts from what real deployments need.
“在不断扩大部署范围的过程中持续学习，是从专用能力走向通用机器人的路径，”拉古拉姆说。
“Continual learning across an expanding range of deployments is the path from specialized capabilities to general-purpose robotics,” Raghuram said.
近几周，投资者已支持了多家机器人初创公司。Formic为工厂机器人融资5000万美元。Eka Robotics为机器人抓取融资1.5亿美元，Maxinsights则获得3000万美元用于训练数据。
Investors have backed several robotics startups in recent weeks. Formic raised $50M for factory robots. Eka Robotics raised $150M for robot grip, and Maxinsights got $30M for training data.