Anvil Robotics is an early-stage robotics company that wants to make building physical AI systems as fast and modular as assembling Lego sets. The startup offers a combined hardware, software, and manufacturing platform: customers visit Anvil's site and configure the robot they need, either choosing prebuilt kits or customizing from a catalog of robot arms, cameras, sensors, and other components. Anvil then manufactures and ships the robot, typically within one to two days via air freight, leveraging its own production presence in Taiwan.
The company was founded in 2025 by CEO Mike Xia and CTO Vijay Pradeep, who spent roughly six months interviewing businesses before launching. Their core insight was that physical AI teams, at both startups and large companies, were spending more than six months piecing together robot arms, cameras, and open-source libraries just to reach a fragile, glued-together prototype. Anvil's platform aims to collapse that timeline by offering ready-to-go, modular devkits that work out of the box.
Anvil's robots are described as roughly the size of a middle-school-aged child but capable of basic dexterous tasks, with modular pricing that starts well below typical custom robot costs. Because Anvil is its own manufacturer and uses a configurable, component-based design, it can offer accessible price points and rapid delivery, lowering the barrier for teams that want to experiment with embodied AI without committing to bespoke engineering.
Anvil raised $5.5 million in seed funding announced in 2026, led by Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures, with participation from DNX Ventures, Superhuman founder Vivek Sodera, Spacecadet Ventures, and Position Ventures, following $1 million in pre-seed from Matter. The company counts NVIDIA among its early customers and is based in San Francisco, focused on becoming the default platform for building and scaling physical AI applications.