ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

<a href="https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/17/gravis-robotics-gets-200m-funding-softbank-retrofit-excavators-self-driving-ai-systems/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260817/i19.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260817/p19#a260817p19" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mike Wheatley / <a href="http://siliconangle.com/">SiliconANGLE</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/17/gravis-robotics-gets-200m-funding-softbank-retrofit-excavators-self-driving-ai-systems/">ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Gravis Robotics AG said today it has bagged $200 million in funding from SoftBank Group Corp. in what is the largest-ever Series &hellip; </p>