{"id":214515,"date":"2025-05-22T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/futurist-ray-kurzweils-humanoid-robotics-startup-eyes-a-500m-valuation"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:05:19","slug":"futurist-ray-kurzweils-humanoid-robotics-startup-eyes-a-500m-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/futurist-ray-kurzweils-humanoid-robotics-startup-eyes-a-500m-valuation","title":{"rendered":"Futurist Ray Kurzweil\u2019s Humanoid Robotics Startup Eyes a $500M Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ilvOaB78pLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kurzweil co-founded Beyond Imagination in 2018 with <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/harry-floor\/\" title=\"Harry Floor\" class=\"\">Harry Floor<\/a>, a scientist and film producer, to develop autonomous A.I. systems capable of physical labor. The company is building humanoid robots aimed at addressing labor shortages in sectors such as health care and agriculture. Its advisory board includes motivational speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/tony-robbins\/\" title=\"Tony Robbins\" class=\"\">Tony Robbins<\/a>, former Qualcomm CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/paul-jacobs\/\" title=\"Paul Jacobs\" class=\"\">Paul Jacobs<\/a>, and former Paramount Pictures CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/james-gianopulos\/\" title=\"James Gianopulos\" class=\"\">James Gianopulos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2018 and 2019, the startup raised $4.2 million in seed funding and was most recently valued at $25 million, per Crunchbase. Reuters reported that its upcoming valuation could reach $500 million, with Gauntlet Ventures\u2014a Dallas-based venture capital firm\u2014expected to be the sole investor in the new round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurzweil co-founded Beyond Imagination in 2018 with Harry Floor, a scientist and film producer, to develop autonomous A.I. systems capable of physical labor. The company is building humanoid robots aimed at addressing labor shortages in sectors such as health care and agriculture. Its advisory board includes motivational speaker Tony Robbins, former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1506,1495,2018,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-food","category-health","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}