Series DMujin

Mujin teaches any warehouse robot to see, plan, and pick by itself

Bolt the MujinController onto standard industrial arms and they depalletize, pick, and palletize on their own — no custom code, one interface for every robot brand.

ركّب وحدة مودجِن على الأذرع الصناعية القياسية فتبصر البضائع وتخطط حركتها وتلتقط وترصّ المنصات وحدها — دون برمجة مخصصة وبواجهة واحدة لكل العلامات.

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  1. The Bottleneck

    What was broken?

    Every warehouse robot needs weeks of custom programming by scarce integrators, and mixed-brand fleets force workers to juggle a different software interface per machine.

  2. The Move

    Why it worked

    Productized the hardest part — real-time perception plus motion planning — into a controller appliance that works with arms from major manufacturers, turning integration projects into repeatable deployments.

  3. The Trap

    Battle scars

    Hardware cycles are long and lumpy; global expansion needs certified integrators in every region; and humanoid and AMR rivals plus the big robot OEMs themselves all want the same platform layer.

The problem

Warehouses can’t hire fast enough, yet each new robot arrives dumb: integrators spend weeks hand-teaching it one task, and a facility with three robot brands runs three incompatible software stacks.

How it works

Mujin’s controller bolts onto standard industrial arms and gives them eyes and a brain — machine vision reads the merchandise, a real-time digital twin plans the optimal motion, and the arm executes picking, palletizing, and depalletizing with minimal manual input. MujinOS unifies mixed-brand fleets behind one interface, and Mujin’s own QuickBot and TruckBot handle pallet and trailer unloading.

Pain points

Integration backlogs measured in weeks per cell, dependence on scarce robotics engineers, and rising parcel volumes colliding with a shrinking warehouse workforce.

Business model

Hardware (controllers, QuickBot, TruckBot) plus MujinOS software licenses and integration services, expanding across fulfillment, machine tending, and fleet management.

Challenges

Long enterprise sales cycles, the cost of building integrator and service networks across the US and Europe, and platform competition from both robot OEMs and well-funded automation startups.

Funding

  • Raised: $233M Series D first close ($133M equity led by NTT Group with Qatar Investment Authority co-lead, plus $100M debt from Japanese financial institutions); earlier an $85M Series C (Sep 2023, SBI-led) plus an $18M extension with Japan Post Capital, taking cumulative funding to $178M at that point (company announcements).
  • Valuation: MISSING.

Latest — December 2025

Mujin announced the $233M Series D first close to scale MujinOS as its flagship intelligent-robotics platform — doubling down on digital-twin orchestration and expansion across European and North American engineering, service, and integrator networks, with a second close planned.

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