Company record

Persona AI

Updated November 9, 2026 · Presspool

Persona AI is a Houston company building industrial humanoid robots for skilled work such as welding, fabrication and inspection in shipyards, construction and energy. persona.ai

Funding

• $27 million Pre-seed, announced May 14, 2025. Led by Unity Growth and Tides Ventures. Sources: prnewswire.com, vcnewsdaily.com.

Whether AI names Persona AI

• On the Humanoid robots map: named or cited in 0 of 48 answers to Presspool's Humanoid robots questions on November 9, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 0 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 8). See the map. AI named or cited 24 of the 31 companies on the map in that sample; Persona AI was not one of them. AI names these companies most on Humanoid robots questions: Unitree (40 of 48), Agility Robotics (37 of 48), Figure (36 of 48), Apptronik (26 of 48) and UBTech Robotics (26 of 48).
• On the Physical AI map: named or cited in 3 of 48 answers to Presspool's Physical AI questions on November 9, 2026 (ChatGPT 1 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 1 of 8). See the map. Of the 53 companies on the map, Persona AI ranked joint 19th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Physical AI questions: Figure (36 of 48), Agility Robotics (31 of 48), 1X (25 of 48), Apptronik (25 of 48) and Physical Intelligence (25 of 48). Most often named in the same answers: 1X (3), AgiBot (3), Agility Robotics (3), Apptronik (3), Figure (3).

A company counts when an AI answer names it or cites its website. Answers vary from run to run, so each count is a dated sample.

Week by week

Answers that named or cited Persona AI in each weekly sample of Presspool's Humanoid robots and Physical AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week. Copilot answers count through November 2, 2026, the last day Copilot answered. Copilot is no longer asked, so later weeks are not counted on the same apps as earlier ones.

Sources AI cites when it names Persona AI

Counted over only the answers that named or cited the company. Each count is a dated sample and does not say why the company was named.

Related records

Also on the Humanoid robots map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Astribot, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics, Dexmate, Donut Robotics, EngineAI, Engineered Arts and 18 more on the map.

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.

Sources

• Own site
• Independent source
• prnewswire.com
• vcnewsdaily.com

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