Raised vs shipped

The two series

Confirmed capital is the sum of funding rounds with a status of confirmed, dated to each round's own announcement. Named customers come from public sources or the maker, at the same evidence tier used across the site. Declared deployments are the maker's own statement of a customer relationship it cannot name — usually an NDA — and count toward inclusion and their own column, never toward named customers.

The second kind of evidence

A robotaxi operator has no buyer to name — the rider is the public. Testing it for a named customer measures nothing, so a second kind of evidence is recorded: a specific place the company operates, with a date and a source that is not the maker's own. A bare country, a region or a count of territories is refused; “operating in 12 countries” is boilerplate, not evidence. Locations count toward inclusion and sit in their own column. They are never added to named customers, because a place and a buyer are different facts and the customer column has to keep meaning what it always meant. A company can carry both.

Following a number through

The named-customer count links to that company's capital and evidence block, where every customer is listed with the source that named them. One thing to expect there: this column counts distinct customers at BOTH scopes — those named against a specific model, and those a source named against the maker without saying which model. The company page keeps those apart on purpose, showing the model-level ones as "deployments on record" and the rest under "Used by", so a specific robot never appears to carry evidence that belongs to its maker. Six here can therefore read as four plus two there. Both are the same six customers.

The floor, and why

A company appears only when it has at least 1 confirmed round announced within the last 36 months, and at least 1 named, declared or located deployment on record. An undisclosed round still counts toward that inclusion floor — it shows no amount and no ratio, never a fabricated zero. At 3% coverage, most companies have no deployment on record at all, so a missing entry means unknown, not unproven. Companies with a recent round and no deployment on record are counted in the line above, never named. (The coverage percentage itself counts named customers only — locations are a different fact and are never folded into it.)

Where the capital sits

The panel above splits every company with a confirmed round into four groups that never overlap, and applies no recency window — the question is what share of the capital on file has a checkable customer, and dropping older rounds would answer a different question with a similar-looking number. A company counts as verified on the same evidence the table uses. The two groups this comparison cannot judge are separated out rather than folded into the remainder: autonomous-vehicle companies, whose rider is the public and not a named buyer, and companies whose robots we have not catalogued yet. No company is named in any group.

What this is not

• Not a rating, and not a per-company grade.
• This page is not a score input; it moves no RoboScore or rank.
• The table orders by capital raised. The named-per-US$100M column is a ratio, shown for reference — it is never the sort key and never called a score.
• Participation in a round is not an amount invested: the disclosed figure is what the round raised in total, not what any one investor contributed.

Trend

Compares the latest weekly reading with the reading closest to 12 weeks earlier (within 7 days), at least 6 days apart. Unknown until both readings carry evidence counts.

Capital moved (a new round landed in the window) while evidence did not → widening. Evidence moved (a new named or declared deployment on record) → closing. Neither moved → steady.