Machina Labs, an advanced manufacturing and robotics company, has closed a $124 million Series C funding round to scale its software-defined manufacturing infrastructure. The round includes investments from Woven Capital (Toyota's growth-stage venture arm), Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, and Strategic Development Fund (SDF). The funding will support the launch of Machina Labs' first large-scale Intelligent Factory in the US—a 200,000-square-foot facility housing up to 50 RoboCraftsman cells, designed to produce thousands of complex metal structural assemblies annually for defense and aerospace customers.
Key takeaways
- Intelligent Factory integrates forming, machining, welding, and assembly, enabling digital-to-production transitions within the same facility, compressing timelines from months to days.
- RoboCraftsman platform allows flexible production of complex metal structures (e.g., missile structures, airframes) without significant retooling, supporting rapid design changes.
- Machina Labs has secured contracts with the US Air Force Research Laboratory and the US Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office, and is working with a defense prime on missile and hypersonic metal structures.
- The platform is dual-use, with ongoing collaboration with Toyota to produce automotive panels for rapid customization at scale.
This investment underscores a strategic shift toward manufacturing speed as a critical constraint in defense and aerospace. By enabling factory reconfiguration at the speed of software, Machina Labs aims to address bottlenecks where production capacity—not design—limits system deployment. For manufacturers, this signals a move toward more agile, software-defined production lines that can adapt to evolving mission-critical requirements.
Source: Robotics & Automation News (roboticsandautomationnews.com) · Published 2026-02-08 · “Machina Labs raises $124 million to scale manufacturing infrastructure”