Jeff Bezos has made significant investments in the AI robotics space, backing six startups focused on spatial intelligence—robots powered by AI to navigate and interact with their environment.
This includes Physical Intelligence, which raised $400 million in November 2024, and aims to bring general-purpose AI into physical tasks.
Other investments include Swiss-Mile, developing AI-driven wheeled robots, Figure AI for unsafe job automation, Deep Sentinel for AI-powered home security, Fathom Radiant for AI hardware, and Rethink Robotics, which creates robots for manufacturing. Bezos sees AI robotics as a solution to labor shortages and rising costs across various industries.