Overview
Walden Robotics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts Physical AI company spun out of Toyota Research Institute (January 2026). It builds full-stack general-purpose robots powered by large-behavior-models and diffusion-policy. CEO Russ Tedrake (MIT; ex-TRI).
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-15: Emerged from stealth with 1.1B valuation; co-led by Toyota entities and Deviation Capital; NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures among investors (2026-07-15-walden-robotics-300m-stealth-launch)
- Company states robots in production at a North American Toyota plant since February 2026 (pilot→production <2 months) — company claim
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- toyota-research-institute
- physical-ai-capital
- toyota
- nvidia
- physical-ai
- large-behavior-models
- robotics
- humanoid-robotics
- russ-tedrake