Company record
Feather
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Feather is the open hardware platform for physical AI: a bimanual mobile robot with an open SDK for deploying robot models. feather.dev
Funding
- $7.6 million Pre-seed, announced September 24, 2026. Led by Gradient Ventures. Builder Capital, Geometry, Virgo VC and SEED Innovations participated; raised as a SAFE. Listed in the AI startup funding roster for September 21–26, 2026. Sources: TechCrunch, WOWTALE.
Of the 31 Pre-seed rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Feather's $7.6 million is the 3rd largest; their median is $3.3 million.
Whether AI names Feather
- On the Physical AI map: named or cited in 1 of 49 answers to Presspool's Physical AI questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 1 of 8, Perplexity 0 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 1). See the map. Of the 53 companies on the map, Feather ranked joint 24th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Physical AI questions: Figure (38 of 49), Physical Intelligence (28 of 49), Skild AI (27 of 49), Agility Robotics (26 of 49) and Unitree (26 of 49). Most often named in the same answers: 1X (1), Agility Robotics (1), Apptronik (1), Figure (1), NEURA Robotics (1).
- Machine Relations Index: Not cited in any Machine Relations Index answer, May 10, 2026 to October 18, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Feather in each weekly sample of Presspool's Physical AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | Physical AI |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 0 of 38 |
| October 5, 2026 | 1 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 0 of 53 |
| October 19, 2026 | 1 of 54 |
| October 26, 2026 | 2 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 1 of 49 |
Related records
Also on the Physical AI map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agile Robots, Agility Robotics, Aleph, Apptronik, ASI, Astribot, Bedrock Robotics, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics and 40 more on the map.
Closest rounds in the roster for September 21–26, 2026: F13 ($5 million Pre-seed, September 23, 2026), Beagle Labs ($4.1 million Pre-seed, September 22, 2026), Outerlimit ($16 million Pre-seed, September 22, 2026), Azulene Labs ($3.4 million Pre-seed, September 23, 2026), Palma.ai ($1.8 million Pre-seed, September 23, 2026), Ekai ($1.7 million Pre-seed, September 23, 2026).
Gradient Ventures, which led this round, also led Collective ($40 million Series B, October 29, 2026) and Respan ($5 million Seed, March 18, 2026).