Overview
- Tether confirmed it joined a €70 million round for Generative Bionics, an Italian startup building humanoid robots for industrial use.
- The capital will fund industrial testing, the company’s first production facility, and deployments targeted for 2026, with a planned CES 2026 debut in Las Vegas.
- Generative Bionics is a spinoff of the Italian Institute of Technology, leveraging over two decades of research, roughly 60 humanoid prototypes, and a large engineering team.
- The round was led by CDP Venture Capital’s Artificial Intelligence Fund, with participation from AMD Ventures, Duferco, Eni Next, and RoboIT.
- Tether framed the investment as part of a broader strategy to back real-world infrastructure and AI, following prior bets on GPU compute and brain-computer interfaces.