Gather AI lands $40M Series B to scale warehouse robotics platform

Funding rounds for applied robotics like Gather AI often look niche next to giant cloud deals, but they point to a critical frontier: embodied intelligence. The company’s system blends classical perception, probabilistic planning and increasingly capable models to orchestrate fleets of drones and cameras in messy, physical environments. That’s exactly the kind of closed‑loop, sensor‑rich domain where today’s mostly text‑and‑image‑bound models will have to prove themselves if we want AGI to matter beyond screens.

Strategically, the presence of a former Salesforce co‑CEO’s fund as lead investor hints at how enterprise software veterans see the opportunity: AI that doesn’t just predict or summarize, but continuously audits reality and feeds structured signals back into ERP and WMS systems. If platforms like Gather become standard in logistics, they create high‑value data streams and control surfaces that future general‑purpose agents can plug into. Over time, that pulls AGI closer to the physical economy, making it more than a disembodied assistant and turning robots, drones and industrial IoT into natural extensions of model capabilities.