{"rows":[{"company":"RT Corporation","hq_country":"Japan","website":"https://rt-net.jp/","status":"active",
"what_it_builds":"Tokyo robot maker (Japanese: アールティ) selling research humanoids Gorilla (life-size, based on ROBOTIS THORMANG3) and Bonobo (120 cm teen-size), plus Foodly food-portioning humanoid cobot; since 2025 NSK is partnering on manufacturing humanoids.",
"what_it_builds_source":"https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000019.000069918.html",
"founded_year":"2005","founded_source":"https://www.nsk.com/company/news/2025/notice-of-strategic-investment-ai-robotics-company-rt-corporation-en/",
"funding_usd":"4940000","funding_basis":"disclosed rounds",
"funding_source":"https://www.therobotreport.com/rt-corp-38m-foodly-food-lunch-packing-humanoid/",
"funding_note":"Summed: 2019-08-23 Series B ~JPY 400M = $3.8M (The Robot Report, https://www.therobotreport.com/rt-corp-38m-foodly-food-lunch-packing-humanoid/; company release https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000037477.html says the ~400M includes borrowings alongside the share issue); 2017-07-10 third-party allotment JPY 120M (https://robotstart.info/article/2017/07/10/73114.html) converted at the 105.3 JPY/USD rate implied by the Robot Report's 2019 conversion = ~$1.14M. The 2017 round may be the 'Series A' (~JPY 100M) mentioned in 2019, so slight double-count/overstatement is possible. Excluded: Oct 2025 NSK investment and Jan 2026 DIC investment, amounts not disclosed in sources I opened; third-party database figures (e.g. $15.3M in Jan 2026) not used as unverified. No valuation sourced.",
"latest_funding_date":"2019-08-23","valuation_usd":null,
"latest_model":"Gorilla (research life-size humanoid; Bonobo 2021 earlier)","latest_model_year":"2023",
"latest_model_source":"https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000019.000069918.html",
"units_shipped":null,"units_shipped_source":null,
"units_shipped_note":"No published cumulative or periodic count of humanoid units delivered found; only a single Bonobo delivery to Osaka University (2024-03-29) is announced, not a total.",
"as_of":"2026-11-03"}],"sources":["https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000019.000069918.html","https://www.nsk.com/company/news/2025/notice-of-strategic-investment-ai-robotics-company-rt-corporation-en/","https://www.therobotreport.com/rt-corp-38m-foodly-food-lunch-packing-humanoid/","https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000037477.html","https://robotstart.info/article/2017/07/10/73114.html"]}