[RoboForce Completes $52 Million Financing Round, Led by YZi Labs] BlockBeats News, March 17: Silicon Valley-based industrial robotics company RoboForce announced the completion of a $52 million oversubscribed financing round, bringing its total funding to $67 million. This round was led by YZi Labs, with participation from Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang. Additionally, existing investors, including Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes, Qiming Venture Partners founding partner Gary Rieschel, and Carnegie Mellon University, also continued their support. The new funds will be used to accelerate the development of the company's next-generation foundational robotic models, advance the scaling of general-purpose Physical AI robots, and enhance manufacturing capabilities to prepare for commercial deployment. The industrial sector is currently facing a growing labor shortage: many physically demanding, repetitive, and high-risk tasks still rely on an increasingly scarce human workforce, leading to extended project timelines and heightened safety risks. RoboForce's solution aims to take on these high-risk, monotonous tasks, with application scenarios including large-scale solar power plants, data centers, mining, shipping, manufacturing, and logistics in industrial environments.