The funding round is led by Andreessen Horowitz. By the end of 2027, the Massachusetts company wants to have more than 1,000 robots under contract.
Tutor Intelligence, based in Watertown in the US state of Massachusetts, has raised 75 million dollars in a Series B round. It was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with earlier backers Union Square Ventures and Neo also taking part. This brings the company's total funding to 117 million dollars. It spun out of the CSAIL lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021.
Tutor builds its own robots and its own AI models and deploys the machines directly at customers in manufacturing and logistics. When the robots get stuck, remote operators help out, whom the company calls tutors. Data from ongoing operations feeds into training the models. Customers do not buy equipment but pay by the hour or by the pick, according to Tutor with no upfront purchase and no long-term contract.
In use are the two-armed robot Sonny for picking individual items and the mobile robot Cassie for cases and palletizing. According to the company, twice as many of its robots now work in almost four times as many facilities as a year ago. By the end of 2027, more than 1,000 robots are to be under contract, all built in the USA. The money is to go into training the robot model and into building and deploying Sonny and Cassie.