San Francisco-based Watney announced an $80 million Series A on September 17, 2026, co-led by Valor's Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, pushing total funding past $100 million. Its robots handle physical data-center tasks like cable swaps and server restarts; Meta has been testing the two-armed robots at its Altoona, Iowa site since last June.
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Watney raises $80M Series A to put robots to work inside AI data centers
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A signal that physical-AI/robotics for infrastructure is drawing large early rounds; hardware founders in the AI buildout can point to this comp when framing a Series A raise.
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