Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company Google, has ventured further into robotics and invested in a $2m round for US-based Savioke.
Google Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, AME Cloud and a handful of individual investors came together to back the robotics startup in its seed round.
The funding is reportedly Google’s eighth investment in a robotics firm over the past year, indicating that the company has its sights set on an automated future. Previous acquisitions include Japan-based Schaft and Boston Dynamics, the company behind human and animal-inspired robots Atlas and BigDog.
The investment will be used to further develop Savioke’s first project, which will be designed for the services industry.